Dreamweaver 3: Hands-On-Training

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Edition: 2nd
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Pub. Date: 2000-07-01
Publisher(s): Pearson P T R
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Summary

There's no better teacher to guide you through this award-winning HTML editor than Lynda Weinman, one of the industry's most sought-after Web trainers and authors. With Dreamweaver 3 H.O.T. (Hands-On Training), you'll feel like Lynda is sitting right there next to you, walking you through the program and sharing her invaluable perspective.This thoroughly updated version of the bestselling original includes an all-new chapter on plug-ins and how to use them, plus coverage of the expanded objects palette and the new HTML styles palette. Structured as a series of exercises that explore Web design, site structure, frames and tables, Cascading Style Sheets, and more, the book also gives you Lynda's expert tips, warnings, and background information about her techniques. An accompanying CD-ROM includes source files for the exercises, as well as QuickTime movies of key concepts.

Table of Contents

Introduction x
About the Authors xii
Our Team xiii
Acknowledgements from Lynda xiv
Acknowledgements from Garo xv
How to Use This Book xvi
HTML vs. HTM xvii
Macintosh and Windows Interface Screen Captures xvii
Mac and Windows System Differences xvii
Making Exercise Files Editable on Windows Systems xix
Making File Extensions Visible on Windows Systems xxi
Creating New Documents xxiv
Dreamweaver System Requirements xxiv
What's on the CD-ROM xxv
Background
2(12)
Roundtrip HTML
3(1)
Do You Need to Learn HTML to Use Dreamweaver?
4(1)
HTML Resources
5(1)
What Does HTML Do?
6(1)
What Does HTML Look Like?
7(1)
HTML Deconstructed
8(1)
File-Naming Conventions
9(1)
File Name Extensions
10(1)
Extending Dreamweaver
11(1)
What is DHTML?
12(1)
What is XML?
13(1)
What is JavaScript?
13(1)
Interface
14(16)
A Tour of the Interface
15(1)
The Objects Palette
16(2)
Type of Objects
18(2)
The Properties Inspector
20(1)
The Launcher and Mini-Launcher
21(3)
The Document Window
24(1)
Preferences
25(1)
External Editors
26(1)
Preset Window Sizes
27(1)
How to Define Browser of Your Choice
28(1)
Shortcut Keys
29(1)
Site Control
30(20)
What is a Root Folder?
31(2)
Defining a Site
33(3)
Relative and Absolute Links
36(4)
File and Folder Management
40(2)
Understanding the Path Structure
42(4)
Creating a Site Map
46(2)
Creating a Site from Nothing
48(2)
Basics
50(30)
Defining the Site
52(2)
Creating and Saving a Document
54(4)
Inserting Images
58(2)
Inserting Text
60(3)
Centering Images and Text
63(1)
Modifying Page Properties
64(6)
Creating Links with Images and Text
70(4)
Meta Tags
74(4)
Looking at the HTML
78(2)
Linking
80(40)
Linking with Point-to-File
81(4)
Browse for File and the Link History
85(6)
Linking to New Source Files
91(5)
Creating Email Links
96(5)
Named Anchors
101(15)
Image Maps
116(4)
HTML
120(32)
HTML Source Window
121(5)
Editing with the HTML Source Window
126(3)
External HTML Editors
129(8)
Quick Tag Editor
137(5)
Clean-up HTML
142(6)
Clean-up Word HTML
148(4)
Typography
152(38)
A Word about Font Face
153(2)
Creating and Formatting HTML Text
155(4)
Font Lists
159(6)
Aligning Text
165(3)
Using the <PRE> Tag
168(6)
Ordered, Unordered, and Definition lists
174(2)
Color Schemes
176(2)
Formatting Text in Tables
178(2)
Repeat Last Action
180(3)
Character Entities
183(3)
Blockquotes and Non-Breaking Spaces
186(4)
Layout
190(30)
Applying a Tracing Image
192(7)
Tracing Images, Background Colors, and Images
199(8)
Converting Layers to Tables
207(4)
Converting Tables to Layers
211(5)
Using Margin Tags
216(4)
Tables
220(42)
Changing the Border of a Table
222(4)
Sorting the Table
226(2)
Changing the Color Scheme
228(4)
Creating and Modifying a Table
232(5)
Aligning Images and Text with Tables
237(9)
Percentage-Based Table Alignment
246(5)
Seamless Image Assembly
251(4)
Combining Pixels and Percentages
255(3)
Insert Tab-Delimited Data
258(4)
Cascading Style Sheets
262(26)
Redefining HTML Styles with Style Sheets
264(7)
Defining a Custom Class
271(4)
Using Selectors to Group Tags
275(2)
Affecting Links with Selectors
277(4)
Linking to a Style Sheet
281(5)
From CSS to HTML
286(2)
Templates/Libraries
288(26)
Templates in Action
290(6)
Creating a New Template
296(7)
Modifying a Template
303(4)
Library Items in Action
307(3)
Creating a Library Item
310(2)
Modifying a Library Item
312(2)
Frames
314(38)
Frames: A Love-or-Hate Proposition
316(2)
Saving Your First Frameset
318(7)
Coloring Frames
325(3)
Links and Targets
328(6)
Adding a Background Image
334(8)
Seamless Background Across Two Frames
342(4)
Frames Object Palette
346(6)
Rollovers
352(36)
Creating a Simple Rollover
354(3)
Animated Rollovers
357(4)
Creating Pointer Rollovers
361(7)
Creating Multiple-Event Rollovers
368(6)
Inserting a Navigation Bar Rollover
374(11)
Inserting a Simple Rollover from Fireworks
385(3)
Automation
388(24)
Using the History Palette for Undo/Redo
389(5)
Copying and Pasting History
394(4)
Applying HTML Styles
398(8)
Creating Keyboard Shortcuts
406(6)
Forms
412(26)
Form Objects
414(2)
Working with Form Objects
416(8)
Creating a Form
424(6)
Creating a Jump Menu
430(8)
DHTML
438(18)
Dragging Layers
440(6)
Using a Timeline for Animation
446(6)
Playing, Stopping, and Resetting the Timeline
452(4)
Behaviors
456(44)
Creating a Check Browser Behavior
458(9)
Creating a Set Text of Status Bar Behavior
467(4)
Creating a Set Text of Text Field Behavior
471(6)
Opening a New Browser Window
477(4)
Installing the Extension Manager
481(3)
Inserting ImageReady HTML
484(7)
Downloading from Macromedia Exchange
491(9)
Commands
500(22)
Getting More Commands
501(3)
Color Schemes
504(2)
Create Web Photo Album Command
506(6)
Optimize Image in Fireworks Command
512(5)
Mailto Command, Using the History Palette
517(5)
Plug-Ins
522(16)
Linking to Sounds
524(4)
Embedding Sounds
528(3)
Inserting Flash Content
531(2)
Inserting Director (Shockwave) Content
533(3)
Inserting a QuickTime Movie
536(2)
Getting it Online
538(20)
Free Web Hosting with GeoCities
539(1)
Setting Up with GeoCities
540(4)
Setting the FTP Preferences
544(3)
Putting Files to the Web Server
547(5)
File Synchronization
552(6)
Troubleshooting FAQ (Appendix A) 558(8)
Online Resources (Appendix B) 566(4)
Technical Support (Appendix C) 570(2)
Index 572

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