Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2014 v.13 - Manual (Page 400)

Working with assets
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Assets panel overview
Add an asset to a document
Apply a color to text using the Assets panel
Apply a URL to an image or text using the Assets panel
Select and edit assets
Reuse assets in another site
Note: The user interface has been simplified in Dreamweaver CC and later. 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 .
Assets panel overview
Use the Assets panel (Window > Assets) to manage assets in the current site. The Assets panel displays assets for the site associated with the
active document in the Document window.
Note: You must define a local site before you can view assets in the Assets panel.
Asset panel with Site list displayed. Category icons are at left, and preview area is above list.
The Assets panel provides two ways to view assets:
Site list Shows all of the assets in your site, including colors and URLs that are used in any document in your site.
Favorites list Shows only the assets you’ve explicitly chosen.
To switch between these two views, select either the Site or Favorites radio button above the preview area. (These two views are not available for
the Templates and Library categories.)
Note: Most of the Assets panel operations work the same in both lists. There are a few tasks, however, that you can perform only in the Favorites
list.
In both lists, assets fall into one of the following categories:
Images
Image files in GIF, JPEG, or PNG formats.
Colors Colors used in documents and style sheets, including colors of text, backgrounds, and links.
URLs External links in your current site documents, including FTP, gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, JavaScript, e-mail (mailto), and local file (file://)
links.
Flash Files in any version of Adobe Flash. The Assets panel displays only SWF files (compressed files created with Flash), but not FLA (Flash
source) files.
Shockwave Files in any version of Adobe Shockwave.
Movies QuickTime or MPEG files.
Scripts JavaScript or VBScript files. Scripts in HTML files (rather than in independent JavaScript or VBScript files) do not appear in the Assets
panel.
Templates Master page layouts used on multiple pages. Modifying a template automatically modifies all pages attached to it.
Library items Design elements that you use in multiple pages; when you modify a library item, all pages containing that item are updated.
Note: To appear in the Assets panel, a file must fall into one of these categories. Some other types of files are sometimes called assets, but they
aren’t shown in the panel.
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