Getting used to the new version of Dreamweaver

Question

1) I just downloaded a new version of Dreamweaver and can't find neither the fonts nor the font colors. 2) How to I create drop down menus?

Answer 1

1. The html attributes for these are gone since they've been deprecated within html standards. Highlight the text you want to affect, then click the CSS button in the Properties Inspector. You can control most of the usual text properties there, additional properties can be changed in the CSS Designer.
This is correct, but beware of using the Property inspector to style your text. Instead, you should always create a CSS rule to style the text, and apply that rule (if necessary) to the container of the text.
WHAT YOU GET IF YOU USE THE PROPERTY INSPECTOR (assuming text in a paragraph tag)
<p><span class="style232">some styled text</span></p>
WHAT YOU MIGHT GET IF YOU DO THIS SEVERAL TIMES TO THE SAME BIT OF TEXT
<p><span class="style232"><span class="style 235">some styled text</span></span></p>
WHAT YOU GET IF YOU CREATE THE RULE FIRST (assuming text in a paragraph tag)
<p class="emphasis">some styled text</p>
The downside of using the PI to do this is that each time you do it, a NEW class is created, so over time, your page fills up with these "ad hoc" and indecipherable class rules (2 days from now will you remember the difference between .style232 and .style233?).
The benefit of using the 2nd approach is that the downside mentioned above DOESN'T happen, you can name your classes with something that describes their function, you can apply the rule more intelligently that merely wrapping the styled content in a span tag (which may be totally redundant) and class rules can be reused many times on the same page.
As you can see, using the Property inspector to style your text is a bad idea, and frankly, that function has not been thought out very well in Dreamweaver.
Just saying....