Using Macromedia

Dreamweaver MX 2004

Introduction/Install

What is Dreamweaver?

Dreamweaver is a web page editor, designed to allow users to create web pages with a wide variety of features without having to write the HTML code by hand. It's designed to be "what you see is what you get". What you design in the Dreamweaver 'document window' will be coded and placed in the document, so that the browser will display the page just as you see it in your Dreamweaver window. Dreamweaver differs from Netscape in that it will not change existing code in a document (unless you ask it to) and it has a larger array of functions, including some site management functions.

Dreamweaver MX 2004 is part of the Macromedia Studio suite of web editing tools, which also includes Fireworks, Flash and Freehand. Dreamweaver MX 2004 can be used in conjuction with Macromedia Contribute to facilitate distributed website creation and editing.

Help & Instruction

Dreamweaver includes some excellent interactive documentation/instruction in the Guided Tour and Lessons under the Help menu.

Note about Publishing

Dreamweaver's Publishing feature can be set up to use secure FTP, and that is covered in this seminar. However, you can also use SSH Secure File Transfer to upload your pages instead: http://www.lehigh.edu/helpdesk/ssh32/ssh32.html

Installing and Running Dreamweaver MX 2004

Dreamweaver MX 2004 is available to computers in the public sites and faculty/staff computers on the LAN through the Install Software icon.

  1. Double-click on the Install Software icon on the Desktop.
  2. In the Install Software page, scroll down to the Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 entry, and click on it.
  3. On the Dreamweaver page, click on the Install icon.
  4. If a window that comes up asking whether to run the file or download it, choose 'Open this file from its current location' and click OK.
  5. When asked 'Are you sure you want to play the script...", click 'Yes.'
  6. Dreamweaver will be installed.
  7. When the 'Installation complete' window comes up, click 'Ok'.
  8. Close the Install Software window.

Once installed, Dreamweaver MX 2--4 can be found in the Start menu under All Programs, in the Macromedia Studio MX 2004 folder.

 

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Jennifer Heise, Last updated February 1, 2005