| When using Macromedia's Dreamweaver 8, you'll | | | | margins, including the left, right, top and bottom |
| want to acquaint yourself with the Property | | | | margins. You cannot preview margins in Design view. |
| Inspector immediately. The Property Inspector panel | | | | You must preview your margins by selecting the |
| is by default located at the bottom of the | | | | "Preview in Browser" button. |
| Dreamweaver window, below the Design and Code | | | | The Title/Encoding category allows you to enter the |
| view windows. Using this panel, you can modify the | | | | page title. A page title can also be entered in the |
| properties of the currently selected object. | | | | Title properties window in Code view. Using the Title |
| In the Design view, if you click on the HTML tag or | | | | Encoding category, you may also set the document |
| an object, most of its properties will be accessible. | | | | type definition; the encoding used by the page; |
| This isn't necessarily the case with page properties in | | | | Unicode options, including UTF-8, and the Unicode |
| Dreamweaver. The page properties do not appear in | | | | signature for UTF-16 and UTF-32 encoding. |
| the Property Inspector, but can be accessed from an | | | | The Tracing Image category provides tools to use in |
| open page by selecting Modify > Page. If you prefer, | | | | the Dreamweaver editor. These effects will not be |
| the Property Inspector has a Page Properties button, | | | | visible in the finished document. They're provided |
| which will also open the Page Properties dialogue box | | | | simply to help you lay out and visualise a page. |
| when you click on it. | | | | Tracing Image allows you to select an image to |
| The Page properties control the appearance and | | | | appear in the background, over which you may lay |
| layout of a Dreamweaver page. It contains three | | | | content, tables, layers and images. The Transparency |
| different categories by default: Appearance, Title | | | | control allows you to control the transparency of the |
| Encoding and Tracing Image. | | | | tracing image, to clarify the items you're overlaying. |
| Using the Appearance category, you can modify | | | | After having examined the Page Properties in the |
| elements such as the background image and | | | | Property Inspector, we turn our attention to the |
| background color; the text color; the colors of links; | | | | other elements controlled through this panel. |
| visited links and active links; and the document | | | | |