by the smallest to largest file size, click the Size heading; if you wanted to sort by the type of asset, click the Type heading, and so on. You can further customize the appearance of the Assets panel by resizing the columns. To do this, hold your mouse pointer directly over the line dividing the columns. When the mouse pointer changes into a two-way arrow, click and drag the dividers in whichever direction you want to resize the columns. By resizing the columns, you can see additional content, such as the type and possibly the full path, as shown in Figure 14.3. Figure 14.3. When resizing the columns in the Assets panel, you can view more information about the assets, such as the type and the path to where the asset is located. [View full size image]   Managing Your Assets Now that you've been working with assets, let's look at how you can manage them in your own sites and how you can share them with other sites. Often, you'll be working in a site and wishing you could have access to another site's assets. This is not an unreasonable requestit will just take a few steps of preparation. To copy assets from one site to another, follow these steps: 1. Select the assets you want to copy in the Assets panel. To select multiple assets, you can either hold down the Ctrl key in Windows or the Command key on a Mac while clicking the assets of your choice, or hold down the Shift key to select a range of items. 2. Right-click in the selected area to display the context menu or access the Options menu in the top-right corner of the Assets panel. From the menu, choose Copy to Site. 3. When you choose the Copy to Site option, a submenu appears offering all the possible sites to which you can copy the assets. Choose the site in which you want the selected assets to be available. The asset files are copied into that site's corresponding folders. If the site does not contain the same folders for the files to be copied into, the folder is automatically created to accommodate the assets. Copying assets to other sites is that simple! Open the site into which you copied the assets to make sure that they appear in that site's Assets panel; keep in mind that you might have to refresh the panel. Another concern you may have when working with Assets is where the actual files are located. As you know, you can always see the path on the far right side of the Assets panel. Alternatively, you can use the Locate in Site option as a quick way of forcing the cursor to the file within the Files panel. When you choose the Locate in Site command, Dreamweaver opens the Files panel and highlights the location of the selected files in the Assets panel. As the first image in Figure 14.4 shows, one image is selected in the Assets panel when I right-clicked and choose the Locate in Site command from the context menu. As the second image in Figure 14.4 shows, the Files panel appears with the selected file in the list. Figure 14.4. Right-click a selected asset and choose the Locate in Site command; the Files panel highlights the location of the selected asset.   Editing Assets After using an asset, you may decide that you want to edit some of its properties using an external editor. For example, if you needed to update an image, you can change or edit that image using the external editor of choice with a simple click of a button. To edit an image asset, do one of the following: