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Site Studio Designer Guide > Getting Started With Designer > Workspace > Design View
Design view displays all objects as they are arranged on a site template, both static (for example, a fixed banner graphic) and dynamic (for example, placeholders and fragments). Depending on how the template was set up and what positioning methods are used, this view may approximate what the page layout is when viewed in a web browser. You see text, images, colors, hyperlinks, and tables as they appear on the actual Web site, but dynamic content (from fragments and scripts) is represented as tags rather than the actual content. This is because most fragments and scripts require server-side scripting and dynamically rendered content. This content can only be seen on the Preview tab (see Preview).
When you open a site template (page template, region template, or subtemplate) in Designer, it opens in the workspace in design mode, where you can edit the template as needed. The workspace then functions as an editor that offers many common editing features. You can edit the text and objects using common editing keystrokes (for example, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to copy and paste), the application toolbars (see Toolbars), and right-click menus (see Right-Click Menus). You can, for example, add site assets, images, tables, and line breaks as you work in design view. To select an object, simply click it, so it displays selection handles (Figure).
For edits that cannot be performed using this interface, you can use the properties pane (see Properties Pane). The properties pane enables you to fine-tune specific areas of a site template, like background color, page margins, and table width. If you cannot make a specific edit here, you can always edit the actual code in source view (see Source View).
To help you identify where site assets (for example, placeholders and fragments) are located on a site template, Designer inserts asset tags with their names. (You can modify this text for fragments in the Fragment Editor as discussed in Adding, Editing, and Deleting Fragment Snippets.)
Designer can also highlight the location of HTML tags in design view. To turn this feature on, click the Show/Hide HTML Tags icon (Figure) in the formatting toolbar. You can click the down arrow next to the icon to show or hide specific HTML tags.
