The two most commonly used modules are the Property Inspector and the Objects Panel

(1) The Property Inspector

This is used to format objects. It displays the characteristics of the existing object and can then be used to change it. Depending on what is selected it will change its appearance.

The basic shape is as below, but the bottom section (selected as open by using the arrow in bottom right) usually displays the characteristics of any cell in which the cursor is found.

This view below of the Property Inspector shows the characteristics of an image.

This too changes its appearance depending on what is selected at the top. The most common view is the Common Objects View as selected in the illustration below.

The basic View and layout icons are always visible to allow you to switch between Layout and Insert views and to insert new cells and tables. This is because these tools lay at the heart of Dreamweaver work.

If you hover over the icons in the Objects Panel a dialogue box appears explaining the purpose of the icon.

The other views all perform specialist jobs.

(1) Character objects allows you to insert certain specialist signs. The main use for this is to insert line breaks.

(2) Forms Objects has icons all connected to creating forms

(3) Frames has icons concerned with the layout of frames.

(4) Head has icons concerned with putting meta tags into the head section of your page

(5) Invisibles inserts anchors, scripts, applets, plugins etc into the document. These are invisible controls.

View these different Objects Panels