Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2015 - Manual (Page 96)

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Last updated 6/3/2015
Chapter 4: File management
Creating and opening documents
The user interface in Dreamweaver CC and later has been simplified. As a result, you may not find some of the options
described in this article in Dreamweaver CC and later. For more information, see this article.
About creating Dreamweaver documents
Dreamweaver offers a flexible environment for working with a variety of web documents. In addition to HTML
documents, you can create and open a variety of text-based documents, including ColdFusion Markup Language
(CFML), ASP, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Source code files, such as Visual Basic, .NET, C#, and Java,
are also supported.
Dreamweaver provides several options for creating a new document. You can create any of the following:
• A new blank document or template
• A document based on one of the predesigned page layouts that comes with Dreamweaver, including over 30 CSS-
based page layouts
• A document based on one of your existing templates
You can also set document preferences. For example, if you typically work with one type of document, you can set
it as the default document type for new pages you create.
You can easily define document properties, such as meta tags, document title, and background colors, and several
other page properties in either Design view or Code view.
Dreamweaver file types
You can work with a variety of file types in Dreamweaver. The primary kind of file you will work with is the HTML file.
HTML files—or Hypertext Markup Language files—contain the tag-based language responsible for displaying a web
page in a browser. You can save HTML files with either the .html or .htm extension. Dreamweaver saves files using the
.html extension by default.
Dreamweaver lets you create and edit HTML5-based web pages. Starter layouts are also available for building HTML5
pages from scratch.
Following are some of the other common file types you might use when working in Dreamweaver:
CSS Cascading Style Sheet files have a .css extension. They are used to format HTML content and control the
positioning of various page elements.
GIF Graphics Interchange Format files have a .gif extension. GIF format is a popular web graphic format for cartoons,
logos, graphics with transparent areas, and animations. GIFs contain a maximum of 256 colors.
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group files (named after the organization that created the format) have a .jpg
extension, and are usually photographs or high-color images. The JPEG format is best for digital or scanned