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The first thing we are going to do is start Dreamweaver, set up our doc and
take a look at the Welcome Screen. To find Dreamweaver application, double
click on the Macintosh Hard Drive. It should be an icon in your upper right-
hand corner. Click on your Applications folder, scroll down through your
applications till you come to Dreamweaver CS4. Click on that folder, then look
for the Application icon and we are going to set it up so we can be power
users, so let's click on the icon and drag it down to our dock. That way it will
be available for us throughout our project. If you are doing this on Windows, you will
look on your C Drive, go to the Program Files, go to your Adobe folder, and
locate Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 inside that folder. Go ahead and click on that folder
and look for the Application icon, right click on that Application icon
and choose to pen it to your Start menu. You could also find it under your Start
menu, under you Adobe folder or your Adobe Suite folder.
So I'm going to close up our files up here. Let's go down to the dock and click
on Dreamweaver and start the application. As soon as Dreamweaver CS4 opens, it
presents you with the Welcome Screen. The Welcome Screen has three activities
that you can do. You can open up a recent item, you can create new documents.
All kinds of documents including code, CSS style sheets, script. You can define
a site. The third column is new videos and features that are supported by Adobe TV.
It's important to take a look at the three or four buttons down here in the
lower left corner. Getting Started is a great place for beginners to go to.
It usually has tutorials for the first time user of Dreamweaver.
Whenever you are buying a new version of Dreamweaver, check out New Features.
It usually explains what the new feature is and how to use it in the context in
which it was developed. Resources is an excellent place to go to get
the full benefit of the Adobe support, help, information, tutorials, developer
center, all the kinds of things that they can do to help support you
with this product. But my favorite button is actually the Dreamweaver
Exchange, which is really run by the community of Dreamweaver users.
There is third-party plug-ins, there is extensions, there are forums on CSS, places
to talk about bugs, all kinds of fun things, and really this is where the active
participants in Dreamweaver put up information and help each other out.
It's important to understand what happens in the bottom right corner of the
Welcome Screen. This area will change all the time. Every time you open up
Dreamweaver with the Welcome Screen, it goes out to the Internet to see if
there is new information, new updates, new news items that Adobe Dreamweaver
wants to distribute to you. This takes a lot of processing speed, and
if you leave the Welcome menu on all the time, you will find that it really takes
a hit on your processing speed when you are working inside of Dreamweaver.
So that we can work as fast as we can and as efficiently as we can, let's go
ahead and click on Don't show again. As soon as we click on that, a dialog box
comes on the screen telling us that if we turn this off, we can always turn it
back on again by going up to our General category in the Preferences. So don't
be afraid, anything you do in Dreamweaver you can always undo.
Now we are going to go ahead and close the Welcome Screen and get ready to set
up our site and define a site.