Dreamweaver^®3 For Dummies^®

by Janine Warner; Paul Vachier

• ISBN13: 9780764528026
• ISBN10: 0764528025
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: For Dummies

Summary

Whether you're a professional Web developer or you're brand new to the Web, Dreamweaver 3 for Dummies will have you designing sophisticated Web sites in no time. This easy-to-use guide is designed to make creating a Web site more intuitive and efficient. Filled with practical tips and easy to follow step-by-step instructions, this book will be your secret weapon in the race to design beautiful and functional high-end Web sites. When it comes to the most advanced HTML features, such as Dynamic HTML and Cascading Style Sheets; this book really shines making it fun and easy to add animations, rollover effects, and multimedia to bring your site to life. Includes a CD-ROM packed with Dreamweaver and Fireworks tryouts, valuable templates, scripts, objects, artwork, and useful utilities.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
About This Book	p. 2
Conventions Used in This Book	p. 2
What You're Not to Read	p. 3
Foolish Assumptions	p. 3
How This Book Is Organized	p. 4
Icons Used in This Book	p. 6
Where to Go from Here	p. 7
Fulfilling Your Dreams	p. 9
Introducing Your New Best Friend	p. 11
So What's New in Dreamweaver 3?	p. 12
Visualizing Your Site	p. 14
Introducing the Many Components of Dreamweaver	p. 14
The Workspace	p. 15
Setting Up a Web Site with Dreamweaver	p. 33
Creating a New Site	p. 33
Defining a Site	p. 34
Setting up Web Server Access	p. 35
Using Check In/Out	p. 37
Activating Site Map Layout	p. 38
Using Design Notes	p. 39
Creating New Pages	p. 41
Designing your first page	p. 42
Creating a headline	p. 42
Indenting text	p. 42
Adding images	p. 43
Setting Links	p. 48
Linking pages within your Web site	p. 48
Setting links to named anchors within a page	p. 49
Linking to pages outside your Web site	p. 51
Setting a link to an e-mail address	p. 51
Putting Your Web Site Online	p. 52
Working with Files Created in Other Visual Editors	p. 55
Corralling Your HTML Files	p. 56
The Diverging Standard	p. 57
Importing Web Sites	p. 59
Importing a site from your hard drive	p. 59
Downloading a site from a Web server	p. 61
Working on Sites Created in Other Editors	p. 62
Microsoft FrontPage 2000	p. 62
NetObjects Fusion 4.0	p. 64
Adobe GoLive 4.0	p. 64
Microsoft Word	p. 65
Other HTML editors	p. 65
Cleaning Up Your HTML	p. 66
Using the Clean Up Word HTML feature	p. 66
Using the Clean Up HTML feature	p. 67
Getting into HTML	p. 71
Appreciating Roundtrip HTML	p. 72
Accessing HTML code	p. 72
Understanding basic HTML	p. 74
Writing HTML for different browsers	p. 75
Creating a Simple HTML Page	p. 76
The simplest HTML document	p. 78
Setting hyperlinks	p. 82
Naming the Main Page	p. 83
Cross-platform issues and testing	p. 84
Getting help with HTML Rename!	p. 85
Working with HTML Text Editors	p. 86
Looking Like a Million (Even on a Budget)	p. 89
Designing a Well-Planned Site	p. 91
Preparing for Development	p. 91
Developing a New Site	p. 93
Managing your site's structure	p. 93
Naming your site	p. 94
Organizing images and handling links	p. 95
Finding and Fixing Broken Links	p. 98
Checking for broken links	p. 99
Fixing broken links	p. 100
Synchronizing Local and Remote Sites	p. 101
Learning from the Best	p. 102
Wonders of the African World	p. 102
Mount Everest	p. 103
The Monterey Bay Aquarium	p. 104
Applying the Rules of Web Design	p. 105
Create a consistent design theme	p. 106
Develop an intuitive navigation system	p. 106
Make sure that your site loads quickly	p. 107
Keep your site simple and easy to read	p. 107
Strive for original designs	p. 107
Test your site	p. 108
Making the Most of the Design Features in Dreamweaver	p. 108
Designing with Cascading Style Sheets	p. 108
Bringing your pages to life with DHTML	p. 109
Coordinating Your Design Work	p. 111
Templating Your Type	p. 111
Typing your template	p. 112
Creating templates	p. 113
Saving any page as a template	p. 114
Using Templates	p. 115
Making Global Changes with Templates	p. 116
Reusing Elements with the Library Feature	p. 117
Creating and using Library items	p. 118
Making Library items editable	p. 121
Using a Tracing Image to Guide Your Layout	p. 122
Keeping in Touch with Design Notes	p. 124
Keeping Your Place with the History Palette	p. 125
Using the Quick Tag Editor	p. 127
Creating Graphics in Fireworks	p. 129
Realizing the Power of Fireworks	p. 130
Introducing the Finest Features of Fireworks	p. 130
The document window	p. 131
Drawing and editing tools: The Toolbox	p. 132
Floating window panels	p. 137
Creating and Opening Images in Fireworks	p. 140
Creating a new file	p. 140
Opening an existing file	p. 140
Saving files	p. 143
Optimizing Files	p. 144
Creating Transparent Background Images	p. 149
Exporting Files	p. 150
Using Dreamweaver and Fireworks Together	p. 151
Dreamweaver to Fireworks: Image editing	p. 151
Dreamweaver to Fireworks: Optimizing an image	p. 154
Creating Professional Looking Buttons and Rollovers with the Button Editor	p. 155
Adding Graphics	p. 161
Getting Great Graphics	p. 161
Buying clip art	p. 162
Creating your own images	p. 164
Understanding the Basics of Web Graphics	p. 166
Inserting Images on Your Pages	p. 168
Aligning Images on a Page	p. 170
Centering an image	p. 170
Aligning an image to one side with text wrapping around it on the opposite side	p. 170
Creating complex designs with images	p. 171
Using the transparent GIF trick	p. 173
Creating a Background	p. 175
Creating Image Maps	p. 178
Advancing Your Site	p. 181
Coming to the HTML Table	p. 183
Creating Simple Tables	p. 183
Understanding Table Options	p. 185
Aligning columns in a table	p. 188
Importing table data	p. 190
Formatting Data within Table Cells	p. 191
Using Tables for Spacing and Alignment	p. 191
Using tables to design forms	p. 192
Aligning a navigation bar	p. 194
Merging and splitting table cells	p. 196
Placing images and text side by side	p. 197
Aligning cell contents vertically	p. 198
Using nested tables: Tables within tables	p. 198
Framing Your Pages	p. 201
Appreciating HTML Frames	p. 201
Understanding How Frames Work	p. 204
Creating a frame in Dreamweaver	p. 206
Saving files in a framest	p. 209
Setting Targets and Links in Frames	p. 211
Naming frames	p. 211
Setting links to a target frame	p. 214
Comparing target options	p. 216
Changing Frame Properties	p. 216
Changing frame borders	p. 217
Changing frame sizes	p. 218
Changing scrolling and resizing options	p. 219
Setting margin height and width	p. 219
Creating Alternative Designs for Older Browsers	p. 220
Cascading Style Sheets	p. 223
Appreciating Cascading Style Sheets	p. 224
Understanding Style Sheet Differences in Web Browsers	p. 225
Formatting Text without CSS	p. 226
Understanding the [FONT] tag	p. 226
Applying font attributes	p. 228
Creating your own HTML styles	p. 229
Creating Cascading Style Sheets in Dreamweaver	p. 231
Understanding CSS style types	p. 231
Using the Edit Style Sheet dialog box	p. 232
Understanding New Style options	p. 233
Defining styles	p. 234
Creating a custom style	p. 240
Redefining HTML tags	p. 241
Editing an Existing Style	p. 243
Applying Styles	p. 244
Using External Style Sheets	p. 245
Creating and editing an external style sheet	p. 245
Linking to an existing external style sheet	p. 247
Changing Style Sheet Preferences	p. 248
Making It Cool	p. 249
Adding Interactivity with Dynamic HTML and Behaviors	p. 251
Understanding DHTML	p. 252
Working with Layers	p. 254
Creating layers	p. 254
Adding elements, resizing, and repositioning layers	p. 254
Stacking layers and changing visibility	p. 256
Nesting layers: One happy family	p. 258
Setting layer options	p. 260
Converting layers to tables: Precise positioning for older browsers	p. 263
Working with Behaviors	p. 264
Attaching behaviors	p. 265
Attaching multiple behaviors	p. 272
Changing a behavior	p. 272
Creating Advanced DHTML Features	p. 275
Using a Timeline	p. 276
Understanding the Timelines palette controls	p. 276
Creating timelines	p. 278
Recording a layer's path	p. 282
Playing your animations	p. 284
Using behaviors with a timeline	p. 285
Ensuring That Your Pages Work in Older Browsers	p. 289
The Check Browser action	p. 290
The Convert to 3.0 Browser Compatible command	p. 290
Advanced Image Design: Fireworks and Dreamweaver	p. 293
Working with Frames	p. 294
Adding frames to the document	p. 294
Editing frames	p. 296
It Slices and Dices: Slicing Images into HTML Tables	p. 297
Using the Slice tool	p. 298
Inserting information into the slice regions	p. 300
Adding a rollover effect to a slice region	p. 301
Exporting sliced graphics to Dreamweaver	p. 303
Showing Off with Multimedia	p. 305
Creating Multimedia for Different Browsers and Platforms	p. 306
Working with Macromedia Shockwave and Flash files	p. 307
What is Shockwave?	p. 309
What is Flash?	p. 309
Inserting Shockwave and Flash movies	p. 310
Setting parameters and other options for Shockwave and Flash	p. 312
Working with Java	p. 315
Inserting Java applets	p. 316
Setting Java parameters and other options	p. 316
Using ActiveX Objects and Controls	p. 318
Working with Other Plug-In Technologies	p. 320
Inserting Netscape Navigator plug-ins	p. 321
Setting Netscape plug-in parameters and other options	p. 322
Forms Follow Function	p. 325
Appreciating What HTML Forms Can Do for You	p. 326
Signing in with a guest book	p. 327
Gathering information using surveys and feedback forms	p. 327
Checking out with a shopping-cart system	p. 327
Conversing in discussion areas and chat rooms	p. 328
Finding what you need using search engines	p. 328
Generating database-driven Web pages	p. 329
Creating HTML Forms	p. 329
Comparing radio buttons and check boxes	p. 331
Adding text fields	p. 334
Finishing off your form with Submit and Clear buttons	p. 337
Using jump menus	p. 339
Other form options in Dreamweaver 3	p. 341
Making your forms look good	p. 341
The Part of Tens	p. 343
Ten Great Sites Designed with Dreamweaver	p. 345
CyberKids	p. 346
Project Seven/Dreamweaver	p. 347
Eighteenoz	p. 348
Cinemascope Photo Journey	p. 349
CatEye	p. 350
Run For Africa	p. 351
era2	p. 352
fabric8	p. 353
Macromedia	p. 354
Dynamic HTML Zone	p. 355
Ten Web Site Ideas You Can Use	p. 357
Make It Easy	p. 357
White Space Is Not Wasted Space	p. 358
Design for Your Audience	p. 358
Pull It Together	p. 358
Be Consistent	p. 359
Late-Breaking News	p. 359
Small and Fast	p. 359
Accessible Designs	p. 359
Follow the Three Clicks Rule	p. 360
Map It Out	p. 360
Ten Timesaving Dreamweaver Tips	p. 361
Finding Functional Fonts	p. 361
Differentiating DHTML for All Browsers	p. 362
Directing Your Viewers	p. 362
Solving Problems When Applying Styles	p. 362
Finding Style Sheet Shortcuts	p. 363
Appreciating DHTML Differences	p. 363
Using the Best Layers	p. 363
Adding Behaviors	p. 364
Creating Prototypes and Templates	p. 364
Controlling Palettes	p. 364
Appendixes	p. 365
Web Design Resources You Can Find Online	p. 367
Adobe Systems, Inc.	p. 367
Art and the Zen of Web Sites	p. 367
Beatnik	p. 368
BrowserWatch	p. 368
CGI Overview	p. 368
CNET	p. 368
Communication Arts Interactive	p. 369
David Siegel's Site	p. 369
DHTML Zone	p. 369
Dreamweaver Extensions Database	p. 369
The Directory	p. 369
The GrafX Design Site	p. 370
The HTML Writers Guild	p. 370
ID Est	p. 370
IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.	p. 370
International Data Group (IDG)	p. 370
Lynda.com	p. 371
Macromedia's Designers and Developers Center	p. 371
Microsoft	p. 371
Netscape	p. 371
Project Cool	p. 371
Weblint	p. 372
WebMonkey	p. 372
Web Reference	p. 372
The World Wide Web Artists Consortium	p. 372
World Wide Web Consortium	p. 373
ZDNET	p. 373
About the CD	p. 375
System Requirements	p. 375
Installing the Software through the HTML Pages	p. 376
Using the CD from the Directory Structure	p. 376
Using the CD with Mac OS	p. 377
What You'll Find	p. 378
HTML converters and editors	p. 378
Graphics programs	p. 379
Web browsers and plug-ins	p. 380
Internet Service Provider	p. 381
Dreamweaver behaviors	p. 381
Templates	p. 381
Flash animations	p. 381
Glossary	p. 382
If You've Got Problems (of the CD Kind)	p. 382
Index	p. 383
IDG Books Worldwide End-User License Agreement	p. 405
Installation Instructions	p. 407
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