But don't start serious document development until you've set up a site. The first step in creating a Web site is planning. See About site planning . If you already have a site on a Web server and you want to begin using Dreamweaver to edit that site, see Editing and updating an existing site . Once you've created the local site, you can populate it with documents.
Documents are the pages users see when they visit a Web site.
Documents can contain text and images, as well as more sophisticated content such as sound, animation, and links to other documents. Use the HTML Source inspector to examine or edit the HTML source code. You can create documents in Dreamweaver starting from either blank HTML pages or templates. You can also open and modify HTML documents created in other applications. See Creating and editing HTML documents .