Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Unleashed- P2: The good news is Dreamweaver provides numerous windows, panels, inspectors, and toolbars for streamlining the way you build websites. The bad news, unfortunately, is that Dreamweaver provides numerous windows, panels, inspectors, and toolbars for streamlining the way you build websites. Why so many windows, panels, and so on, Dreamweaver is unprecedented in the feature set it provides, allowing developers complete control when building websites and applications | used as way of embedding the content of a secondary page within your page within a small scrollable window. It s important to note however that the IFrame is deprecated and it should be replaced whenever possible with the much more flexible div tag. Frames Menu Opens the Frameset submenu which enables you to pick from various options for splitting the Document window into frames. Frames are covered in more detail in Chapter 8 Working with Frames and Framesets. Form Objects Covered in much more detail in Chapter 9 Working with HTML Forms form objects facilitate interactivity between your users and your dynamic web applications. Aside from adding form objects by using the Insert Form menu you can visually add form objects from this category. The list of available objects includes Form Text Field Hidden Field Textarea Checkbox Radio Button Radio Group List Menu Jump Menu Image Field File Field Button Label Fieldset and various Spry validation elements including Spry Validation Text Field Spring Validation Textarea Spry Validation Checkbox and Spry Validation Select. Data Objects Throughout the second half of this book you will become increasingly familiar with data objects. Depending on what server technology you re using the Data category of the Insert bar will tailor itself to accommodate features and functionality of a specific technology. To prove this point I ll briefly create a sample page. As you can see from Figure before and Figure site the Application category looks slightly different before I created the site than afterwards. Figure . The categories of the Insert bar when you re working with a normal HTML file. View full size image Figure . The categories of the Insert bar when you re working with an file. Also notice the new category. View full size image It s also important to notice that depending on the server technology you decide to use a new category will appear to support development for that
