Essential Dreamweaver 4.0 Fast

by Hussain, Fiaz

• ISBN13: 9781852335731
• ISBN10: 1852335734
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

Macromedia Dreamweaver 4.0 provides an exciting environment for creating and managing web pages and web sites. Fiaz Hussain gives a quick, but effective, introduction to the various key components and tools making up the development studio. Using a hands-on approach, with plenty of animated illustrations, Essential Dreamweaver 4.0 fast: - shows the simple and valuable steps necessary to design, develop, evaluate and publish a web site; - explains the essential components of building a web-site, through hand-coding HTML or JavaScript, or via the Visual Editor, or by means of both; - discusses how to include text, images, links, forms, frames, layers, HTML, JavaScript and style sheets. Essential Dreamweaver 4.0 fast gives an easy explanation of the basic tools needed to build and manage sophisticated web sites quickly. The source code for the examples in the book is available from the Essential Series web site: http: //www.essential-series.com

Table of Contents

Dreamweaver Environment	p. 1
Introduction	p. 2
The environment	p. 2
The toolbar	p. 5
The Objects panel	p. 9
The Property Inspector panel	p. 12
The launcher bar	p. 13
Dreamweaver Basics	p. 17
Introduction	p. 18
Creating a site structure	p. 18
Creating a local site	p. 19
Understanding the site map	p. 22
Understanding site assets	p. 25
Understanding templates	p. 28
Creating and using templates	p. 28
Working With Cells And Tables	p. 33
Introduction	p. 34
Understanding web page design	p. 34
Choosing a layout view	p. 35
Designing a page layout	p. 39
Adding multiple cells	p. 43
Understanding and using tables	p. 44
Using Standard View for tables	p. 53
Using Autostretch for page layout	p. 60
Working With Characters And Text	p. 67
Introduction	p. 68
Adding text to a page	p. 68
Importing text to a page	p. 70
Understanding text formatting	p. 72
Adjusting text size	p. 76
Adjusting text position	p. 78
Adjusting text colour	p. 79
Adjusting text styling	p. 84
Using text search	p. 85
Adding special characters	p. 88
Working With Images	p. 91
Introduction	p. 92
Understanding images	p. 92
Adding images to a page	p. 93
Resizing an image	p. 99
Aligning images and text	p. 103
Editing an image	p. 107
Using Alt attribute	p. 110
Creating image rollover effects	p. 112
Adding a background image	p. 118
Adding an image border	p. 119
Working With Links And Hyperlinks	p. 123
Introduction	p. 124
Defining link paths	p. 124
Creating linked images	p. 127
Understanding image maps	p. 130
Adding image maps	p. 132
Adjusting image hotspots	p. 137
Linking within a page	p. 144
Linking to other parts of a site	p. 153
Adding a Mailto link	p. 155
Working With Layers	p. 157
Introduction	p. 158
Establishing layer preferences	p. 158
Adding layers to a page	p. 160
Positioning layers	p. 164
Resizing layers	p. 166
Understanding layer properties	p. 169
Defining layer visible region	p. 173
Working with multiple layers	p. 177
Understanding nested layers	p. 182
Using layer and table relationships	p. 187
Understanding animation	p. 191
Using the timelines panel	p. 191
Creating a simple animation	p. 193
Creating animation via keyframes	p. 197
Working With Frames	p. 201
Introduction	p. 202
Understanding framesets	p. 202
Creating nested framesets	p. 208
Using the frames panel	p. 210
Using the frames properties panel	p. 2113
Using links for frame content	p. 217
Saving framesets and frames	p. 218
Working With Html And Javascript	p. 221
Introduction	p. 222
Understanding HTML	p. 222
Viewing HTML code	p. 225
Editing HTML code	p. 227
Setting code preferences	p. 234
Adding JavaScript	p. 237
Supporting code features	p. 242
Working With Style Sheets And Form	p. 245
Introduction	p. 246
Creating HTML styles	p. 246
Understanding CSS	p. 249
Creating a HTML tag style	p. 250
Creating a customised CSS style	p. 254
Creating a special-effect CSS style	p. 257
Creating an external style sheet	p. 258
Understanding forms	p. 261
Adding a form to a page	p. 263
Adding form buttons	p. 267
Testing And Publishin	p. 271
Introduction	p. 272
Steps for site management	p. 272
Managing links	p. 273
Changing browsers	p. 276
Viewing download performance	p. 277
Generating reports	p. 280
Debugging JavaScript	p. 284
Publishing a site	p. 287
Index	p. 291
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