Dreamweaver is one of the most powerful application for building and managing webpages. With Dreamweaver you can create tables, forms, CSS styles; you can create your own templates and use them to edit hundreds of pages on your website with a single mouse click. Pages created with Dreamweaver typically result in cleaner HTML code, and they look almost perfect in Internet Explorer, Netscape, and Opera.

The first chapter introduced you to HTML elements and their attributes as well as the basic document format. The good news is you don't need to type code in by hand. Dreamweaver is going to make creating your HTML web pages easy.   A number of interface options can be customized.  We focus on default settings and use these for the bulk of the course so you can focus on learning how to create web pages.

For example, in the Properties panel you can click the:

• Format arrow on the left (initially displaying Paragraph or None) for use with headings or subheadings on a page that you want in different font sizes. Heading 1 is a very large font size, while Heading 6 is a very tiny font size.
• Font Size arrow in the middle - initially displaying None - to increase or decrease the size of text (such as a paragraph of text, rather than a heading or subheading). You can pick a size either by selecting the xx-small through xx-large options, or by setting a font size from 9 to 36.

When your web site has a lot of pages and you want they to share certain characteristic, you can create and apply template to them. This way you will save a lot of time instead of creating all pages one by one. If you have group of pages with applied template to it, you can change the information on the group by editing the template and then reapplying it to those pages. You can do that while the unique element of each page remain unchanged, but the template elements.

Define your site and create a page which will be used to create your template.

Once you finish select File -> Save as template. A small window will pop up. Choose the site for which you want to create this template ant type the name of the template to be saved with

The Usablenet and Macromedia partnership is based around the joint goal of providing the professional web community an authoring environment that enables the user to quickly create web sites that are both usable and accessible. Through this partnership Usablenet has provided over 80,000 Macromedia Dreamweaver and UltraDev® users with add-on solutions that simplify and accelerate the web development process.

The latest product, Lift for Macromedia Dreamweaver and UltraDev is a production tool that works within the authoring environment offering users powerful features which streamline web page production while ensuring that the content is accessible to standards such as US Section 508 and W3C.

Lift is now used in conjunction with Macromedia's leading authoring solutions in key markets such as large corporate, government and education institutions. They offer these clients a way to establish web production guidelines across a group of web designers with different level of experience and skill. The practical tools include: features which locate possible usability and accessibility issues, along with Fix Wizard that help guide a web designer through the problems and streamline the overall web site production process.