Lesson 1: Dreamweaver CC Jumpstart

dw01.psd 

Whether you are a novice web designer or an experienced developer, Dreamweaver is a comprehensive tool you can use for site design, layout, and management. In this lesson, you’ll take a tour of Dreamweaver’s key features and get a better understanding of how web pages work.

What you’ll learn in this lesson:

  • An overview of Dreamweaver CC features
  • How the Web works
  • An introduction to HTML

Starting up

Before starting, make sure that your tools and panels are consistent by resetting your workspace. See “Resetting the Dreamweaver workspace” in the Starting up section of this book.

Before you start, be sure to register your book at www.digitalclassroombooks.com/epub/dreamweavercc to learn about updates to any of the lesson files and gain access to the accompanying video tutorials on any Internet connected computer, tablet, or smartphone.

You will work with several files from the dw01lessons folder in this lesson. Make sure that you have loaded the dwlessons folder onto your hard drive from www.digitalclassroombooks.com/epub/dreamweavercc. See “Loading lesson files” in the Starting up section of this book.

16800.jpg If you want to get started and create a page, jump ahead to “Tag structure and attributes” later on in this lesson. Otherwise, the next few ...

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