Preparing Your Dreamweaver Coding Environment

In this free book chapter covering the Dreamweaver Coding Environment, you'll learn how to access and use the many options you have for working with code in Dreamweaver, and how to configure your coding environment to support your own style of working with code. Building Web applications is back-end work that focuses on coding. This chapter explains the details on how to set up your Dreamweaver coding environment before you start working directly with code. Dreamweaver has several document view options, which include Code, Design, and Split (Code and Design combined). While all three views can be useful when developing Web applications, you're likely to use Code view most often, because application development usually involves more work with code than with design.  Dreamweaver lets you do all your code work by hand or automate coding tasks with Dreamweaver's code tools.