Q. Overview of the Dreamweaver work area?

Let's start with a brief overview of the Dreamweaver work area. If you haven't already launched Dreamweaver, double-click Dreamweaver icon on your desktop to do so.

When you launch Dreamweaver, following work area items open up. Dreamweaver work area accommodates different styles of working and levels of expertise. Once you get accustomed to keyboard and other shortcuts, you may like to work in a totally blank space. Figure below demonstrates different components of the work area.

• Document window displays the current document as you create and edit it.
• Objects panel contains icons you click to insert objects in your document, and to change way you work in a document.
• Dreamweaver provides many floating panels, like the HTML Styles panel and Code inspector, which allows you to work with other Dreamweaver elements.
• Launcher bar contains buttons for opening and closing your most frequently used inspectors and panels.
• Property inspector displays properties for the selected object or text, and lets you modify those properties. (Which properties appear in inspector depends on object actively selected in the document.)

You would be well advised to close all floating panel and options boxes cluttering up the work area by clicking on X on the top right corner of boxes. To open Dreamweaver's windows, inspectors and panels, use Window menu. A check mark next to an item in Window menu indicates that named item is currently open (though it may be hidden behind other windows). To display an item that isn't currently open, choose item name from the menu or use its keyboard shortcut.