If you’re working on a large site, or a site that uses a lot of images, colors, and other assets, sorting through and finding the page component you’re after can be a real chore. Thankfully, Dreamweaver's Assets panel is on the case. The Assets panel comes in two flavors: Site mode and Favorites mode. The Site mode displays all the readable assets for your site, while Favorites mode will only list those assets that you’ve added to your favorites list.

Building a favorites list makes finding the images, URLs, and colors that you use most often much easier to find. As you begin building a list of favorites, you can make use of two dandy features: You can use folders to help keep organized, and you can give your assets nicknames so you can find them easily.

Here’s how it all works:

1. In the Asset panel’s site mode, highlight one or more elements.
2. Click the Add To Favorites button at the bottom of the panel.

A pop up window appears letting you know that the asset has been copied to your list of favorites. You might get tired of clicking OK if you’re adding a lot of assets, so use the Don’t Show Me This Message Again checkbox.

Note: If you’d like to add an asset to your favorites right in the Files panel, try right-clicking on the file and choosing Add To Favorites.

3. Click on Favorites at the top of the Assets panel to view your list.

You can still use the category buttons down the left side of the panel, but now you can organize your assets in folders, and give them a descriptive nickname

4. To add a folder to a favorites category, click the New Favorites Folder button at the bottom of the panel, then give your folder a name.

You can even create sub-folders by dragging a folder icon into another folder.

5. If you’d like to give your asset a nickname, select, and choose Edit Nickname from the  Asset panel’s Option menu.

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