find improved CSS rendering, better support for positioning, and a more unified CSS panel that includes the Rule Tracker, Property Grid, and a new Composite view. _ You can find one of my favorite new feature sets on the Edit menu. Paste Special enables you to paste formatted text (and even tables) from other programs, such as Microsoft Word or Excel, with options about what formatting is kept. You can choose to paste text with structural formatting, such as tables and paragraph marks; with or without basic formatting, such as bold and italics; and you can even opt to clean up the often problematic paragraph formatting from Word as you paste in the text. If you specify your choices in Dreamweavers Preferences, anytime you use the paste feature your text is inserted based on your favorite options. _ Going beyond the predesigned templates included in previous versions, Dreamweaver now includes Starter Pages, which not only include topicbased designs. They actually include text. Of course, you can edit the text; but if youre creating a calendar of events or a product catalog, for example, the general text already in place on these pages gives you a head start. _ If you prefer working in Code view, where you can see all the HTML tags, youll find a few enhancements to that interface, including a new toolbar that provides quick access to common commands and the capability to selectively expand and collapse code so you can focus on the area you are working on. 12 Part I: Fulfilling Your Dreams _ I always recommend that you design your pages for the broadest audience, and that definitely includes designing for the disabled, such as the blind who use special browsers that read Web pages aloud. Macromedia has always been good about including accessibility features, and Im pleased to see those features support the Priority 2 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Introducing the Many Components of Dreamweaver Dreamweaver can seem a bit overwhelming at first. It has so many features, and they are spread out in so many panels, toolbars, and dialog boxes that you can easily get lost. If you prefer to learn by poking around, have at it (and feel free to skip ahead to the next chapter where you start building your first Web page). If you want a tour before you get started, the next few sections introduce you to the interface and provide an overview of the basics of Dreamweaver. You also discover where to find common features and functions, which the rest of the book covers in more detail. The Workspace When you launch Dreamweaver, the Start Screen appears in the main area of the program (and it reappears anytime you dont have a file open). From the Start Screen, you can choose to create a new page from one of the many Dreamweaver pre-made templates, or you can create a new blank page by selecting HTML from the Create New options in the middle column. When you select HTML, Dreamweaver creates a new blank HTML page in the main Workspace, as shown in Figure 1-1. You can type text directly into any page in the Workspace and apply basic formatting with the many formatting options described later in this chapter. You build HTML pages, templates, style sheets, and so on in the Workspace, which consists of a main window that shows the page youre working on surrounded by a number of panels and menus that provide tools you can use to design and develop your pages (shown in Figure 1-1). The Dreamweaver Workspace consists of the following basic components: the menu bar (at the