10 Minute Guide to Macromedia Dreamweaver 4

by Ruvalcaba, Zak

• ISBN13: 9780789726582
• ISBN10: 0789726580
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Que

Summary

Because most people don't have the luxury of sitting down, uninterrupted for hours at a time to learn Dreamweaver, this Ten-Minute Guide focuses on the most often used features, covering them in lessons designed to take 10 minutes or less to complete. Ten minutes is all you need to learn how to

Plan and set up a new site

Open and create HTML files

Set up and add content to tables

Work with frames and forms

Add behaviors to a Web page

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(2)
The Dreamweaver Development Interface	3	(13)
What Is Dreamweaver?	3	(1)
Overview of the Development Editor	3	(9)
Customizing How You Work Through Preferences	12	(4)
Managing Your Web Site	16	(11)
Using Dreamweaver's Site Management Utility	16	(7)
Synchronization and Broken Links	23	(4)
Creating Web Pages	27	(14)
Working with Text	27	(5)
Formatting Text with the Property Inspector	32	(3)
Other Formatting Attributes	35	(5)
Previewing in a Browser	40	(1)
Working with Links	41	(10)
Understanding Linking	41	(1)
Working with Links	41	(4)
Link Colors	45	(3)
E-mail Links	48	(1)
Named Anchors	48	(3)
Working with Images	51	(13)
Image File Formats	51	(2)
Inserting Images	53	(5)
Linking an Image	58	(1)
Creating an Image Map	58	(1)
The Asset Panel	59	(2)
Roundtrip Graphics Editing Using Fireworks	61	(3)
Creating Structure with Tables	64	(7)
Inserting a Table	64	(2)
Adding Content and Aligning Data	66	(3)
Nesting Tables	69	(2)
Adding Flash Content	71	(10)
How Flash Works	71	(1)
Vector Versus Bitmap	72	(1)
Inserting Flash Movies	73	(2)
Setting Flash Movie Properties	75	(2)
Inserting Flash Text	77	(1)
Inserting Flash Buttons	78	(3)
Working with Frames	81	(13)
Understanding Frames	81	(1)
Frames and Framesets	82	(1)
Creating Frames in Dreamweaver	83	(2)
Selecting Frames	85	(1)
Resizing and Removing Frames	85	(1)
Saving Frames and Framesets	86	(1)
The Frameset Inspector	87	(1)
The Frames Inspector	88	(3)
Setting Content Pages and Targeting Links	91	(3)
Working with Forms	94	(10)
Creating a Form	94	(2)
Adding Form Objects	96	(8)
Adding Style to Your Web Pages	104	(11)
Cascading Style Sheets	104	(1)
Types of Styles and Style Sheets	105	(2)
The Styles Panel	107	(1)
Redefining a HTML Tag	108	(3)
Creating A Custom Class	111	(2)
CSS Root Directory	113	(2)
Automating Tasks	115	(9)
Library Items	115	(1)
Creating Your Own Library Items	116	(3)
Editing Library Items	119	(1)
Templates	120	(4)
JavaScript Behaviors	124	(9)
Understanding Javascript	124	(1)
The Behaviors Panel	125	(1)
Adding Behaviors	125	(3)
Creating A Pop-up Message	128	(5)
Animation with Timeline and Layers	133
About Layers	133
Layers Panel	134
Positioning Properties	136
Working with Behaviors and Layers	136
Animating Layers with the Timeline	138
Creating an Animation with the Timeline	140
Index