Dreamweaver - the best pal of designers
When we discuss about web designing tools, the first word that will be brought to our attention by an experienced designer would be Macromedia's Dreamweaver. This may be termed as the best pal of designers. The best pal has proved its efficiency in assisting designers to bring out the best of their best. Dreamweaver, a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor, helps with the simple and clean HTML code for web designing. With much more capabilities incorporated, Dreamweaver has inbuilt unbeaten tools to create and play with Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript and DHTML.
Dreamweaver, a trendy web authoring tool, is very easy to use as its Graphical User Interface has ensured easy navigation to its sorted list of tools in the form of menus and toolbars. The basic components or the elements of the website, namely, the layout, text, colour, links and images can be framed as a webpage with Dreamweaver with ease. When designing a page layout, there are certain points to be noted. These would help a beginner considerably in designing compact and organised sites.
To start a structured web design by using Dreamweaver, a perfect hierarchy of folder concept acts as a base. Organising the folders in this sense, is classifying the categories you have planned for your site and making them as a separate folder inside the main folder in the name of your site. When this type of perfect navigation among the folders is maintained, you can easily save that particular web page and other related items inside the concerned folders. For instance, while designing a website in Dreamweaver for a company, you can create the root directory in the name of the site and follow the tree folder structure for pages such as About Us, Home Page, Portfolio, Services and Contact Us. You can classify the images used in designing and media files for special effects in other separate folders. When the folder hierarchy is followed, Dreamweaver replicates the local site structure to the remote site as well.
The templates and the CSS concept in Dreamweaver help a lot in designing and maintaining the website. As a normal templates concept, Dreamweaver helps in maintaining uniformity in web designing. The main advantage of using Dreamweaver’s template is that it allows reusing of layouts and elements in multiple documents. This facilitates easy navigation throughout the website and also deals with other sensitive design issues in a simple way for larger websites. The libraries in Dreamweaver are an important aspect when dealing with combined environments. This is the base to start with Dreamweaver. When you move along you get used to its environment. There is much more to explore and employ in Dreamweaver. XEL Web Design employs skilled designers to handle this tool (Dreamweaver) effectively to achieve the best website designs which satisfy the customers.
