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Hi, I'm Scott Fegette-- Product Manager for Dreamweaver In the last two videos, we took a look at ways that you can work effectively with CSS-based layouts. Dreamweaver CS5 also lets you work very effectively with Dynamic Applications. In this case, we're going to be looking at at a WordPress application. I'm going to open up the next .php file. You can already see, there's not a whole of information to go on, as a designer. So the two problems are: We really want to work in a visual context, but also have access to the code. The second problem is--that we're going to take a look at in the next video-- we need ways to work with different states of the applications. For example, a comment form or Air handling--Air messaging--within a particular application. In this case, we really just want to start getting to all the various assets and work with them in a reasonably visual fashion. That's not so much to ask and, in fact, Dreamweaver's already asking us if we'd like it to go in and sort of ask the Web server-- that's running here locally on my machine--if it can find all those related files that really come together to create our site. I'm going to click Discover and--sure enough-- Dreamweaver's found all of those related files. I can scroll through them here--sort of like a VCR-- or I could choose from them directly within this drop-down menu. But, as you can see--there are quite a few and, really what I want to get to is the Footer file. So, I could filter out--for example, just take a look at my Design files-- CSS, JavaScript, and XML files here-- or--my favorite--I can use it to custom filter. In this case, I want to find Footer so I'll choose Footer*-- and it's found that footer.php file When I click on it, I can it pull down here in the Code pane of Split View and when I turn on Live View, I can now work effectively. Live View, of course, is rendering that page right off of my local test server. It's a WordPress application and if I roll down to this Footer, it says Local Magazine. For whatever reason--I think I'm going to change that to Awesome Magazine. I'll go ahead and save the file, hit refresh, and now it's Awesome Mag. We've just started working with our WordPress App right here, live within Dreamweaver. This is one problem where we're basically looking at the Index page--the home page of the WordPress App, so to speak. In the next installation, we're going to talk about how you can actually design the various other states--a posting page, maybe even a comment form directly within Dreamweaver live on the server, as well. So join me for the next one--thanks.
