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Creating New Assets in the Assets panel

You can use the Assets panel to help design your Web site. Dreamweaver enables you to create new assets in certain asset categories. You can add a new color, URL, template, or library item. Hours 22, “Reusing Items in Your Web Site with the Library,” and 23, “Creating and Applying a Template,” describe how to create new library items and templates.

When you begin creating a Web site, you can organize your development effort with the help of the Assets panel. Organize your image assets into favorites so that commonly used images are easy to find. Define commonly used links and colors so that they can be quickly applied to Web pages.

The Assets panel catalogs the assets that already exist in your site. When ...