The Assets Panel

Assets panel helps you manage and organize your sites assets more easily than you can in the Site panel. Assets are catorized and display in a list.

To view assets in a particular category, click the appropriat icon. Dreamweaver displays the following categories of assets.

Images are image files in GIF, GPEG, or PNG formats. For information about images, see Inserting Images.

Colours are the colours that are used in documents and style sheets in your site, including text colours, background colours and link colours.

URL's are external links in your current site documents. This catogery includes the following types of links: FTP, gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, JavaScript, e-mail (mailto), and local file (file://).

Flah movies are files in any version of Macromedia Flash format. The Assets panel displays only SWF files (compressed Flash files), but not FLA (Flash source) files.

Shockwave movies are files in any versio of Macromedia Shockwave format.

Movies are files in QuickTime or MPEG format.

Scripts are JavaScript or VBScript files. Note that scripts in HTML files (rather independent JavaScript or VBScript files) do not appear in the Assets panel. For information on working with JavaScript in Macromedia Dreamweaver, see Using the JavaScript debugger.

Templates provide an easy way to reuse the same page layout on mutliple pages nd to modify the layout on all pages attached to a template when a template is modified. See About Dreamweaver template.

Library items are elements that you use in multiple pages: when you modify a library item, all pages that contain that item are updated. See working with Library items.

Note: Only files that fit into these categories show in the Assets panel. There are other types of files that are sometimes called assets, but they aren't shown inthe panel.

Viewing assets in the Assets panel.

The assets panel provides two ways to view assets: the Site list, which shows all of the assets in you site, and the Favourites list, which shows only the assets you're explicity chosen.