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Macromedia Dreamweaver MX for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

by: Towers, J. Tarin

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

by: Towers, J. Tarin

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9780201844450
ISBN 10:
0201844451
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Copyright: 01/01/2003
Publisher: Peachpit Press
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Even if you've never used Macromedia Dreamweaver before,Macromedia Dreamweaver MX for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guidewill have you up and running with Macromedia's popular Web authoring program in no time. This completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to Macromedia Dreamweaver uses step-by-step, task-based instructions to explain all of the program's basic tools and how to use them to design a Web site. The book covers the program's existing features as well as its new ones, including its site setup wizard, context-sensitive toolbar, snippets, and enhanced coding tools. Whether you're using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX as a WYSIWYG page-layout tool and never want to write HTML, or if you're a hand coder who prefers using a sophisticated text editor, you'll findMacromedia Dreamweaver MX for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guideindispensable.

Introduction	p. xv
Getting Started	p. 1
Dreamweaver Tools	p. 2
The Dreamweaver Environment	p. 3
Arranging Your Workspace	p. 6
Planning Your Site	p. 11
The Document Window	p. 14
The Document Toolbar	p. 16
The Insert Toolbar	p. 17
Dreamweaver Objects	p. 19
Measuring in the Document Window	p. 22
Looking at Code	p. 25
Selecting Objects and Code	p. 27
The Property Inspector	p. 29
Invisible Elements	p. 30
About History	p. 31
Setting Up a Local Site	p. 33
About the Site Window	p. 35
The Site Window	p. 37
Setting Up a Local Site	p. 39
If You're Upgrading	p. 45
Importing and Exporting Site Information	p. 46
Editing and Deleting Local Sites	p. 48
Site Window Tips and Shortcuts	p. 50
Moving Files	p. 53
Managing Assets	p. 54
Kinds of Assets	p. 56
How Assets Work	p. 57
Using the Assets Panel	p. 58
Previewing and Inserting Assets	p. 60
Using Favorites and Nicknames	p. 62
Editing and Sharing Assets	p. 64
Basic Web Pages	p. 67
Creating New Files	p. 68
Getting a Head Start	p. 70
Turning off the New Document Dialog Box	p. 71
Opening Files	p. 72
Creating Content	p. 73
Page Properties	p. 79
Modifying the Page Color and Background	p. 82
Saving Your Work	p. 86
Saving a Copy of a File	p. 88
Previewing in a Browser	p. 90
Printing from the Browser Window	p. 91
Colors and Web Pages	p. 92
Colors and Windows	p. 94
Colors for the Mac	p. 95
Editing Code	p. 101
About HTML	p. 102
Learning HTML	p. 103
Working with Code	p. 106
About Code View and Split View	p. 108
Code Options	p. 110
Using the Code Reference	p. 112
The Code Reference, Up Close and Personal	p. 113
Using the Quick Tag Editor	p. 114
More Code-Editing Tools	p. 120
Using the Edit Tag Dialog Box	p. 122
Hand Coding in Dreamweaver	p. 126
About the Hints Menus	p. 128
Selecting Parent and Child Tags	p. 129
The Insert Tag Command and the Tag Chooser	p. 131
The Snippets Panel	p. 133
The Tag Inspector Panel	p. 138
Inserting Comments	p. 140
Setting HTML Preferences	p. 142
Cleaning Up HTML	p. 145
Working with Images	p. 151
Placing an Image	p. 152
Inserting Images with the Assets Panel	p. 154
Selecting an Image	p. 155
The Property Inspector	p. 156
Image Formats	p. 158
Image Properties	p. 159
Appearance Properties	p. 160
Layout Properties	p. 164
Page Loading Properties	p. 167
Image Editor Integration	p. 170
Inserting an Image Placeholder	p. 172
Working with Links	p. 173
Kinds of Links	p. 174
More About Relative Links	p. 176
Making Links	p. 180
Making Relative Links	p. 181
Image Links	p. 183
Pointing to a File	p. 185
Linking to an Email Address	p. 187
Linking to a Section of a Page	p. 189
Opening Links in a New Window	p. 193
Changing Link Colors	p. 194
Smart Linking Strategies	p. 195
Inserting & Playing Media	p. 197
Image Rollovers	p. 199
Using Navigation Bars	p. 201
Using Sound Files	p. 206
Sound File Parameters	p. 210
Netscape Plug-ins	p. 213
Shockwave and Flash	p. 215
Creating Flash Objects in Dreamweaver	p. 217
Java Applets	p. 224
ActiveX	p. 225
Extra Parameters	p. 227
Fonts and Characters	p. 229
Placing Text	p. 230
Changing Font Size	p. 231
Using Text Styles	p. 235
Physical Text Styles	p. 236
More Physical Text Styles	p. 237
Logical Text Styles	p. 239
Using Font Faces	p. 240
Setting a Font Face	p. 242
Creating a Font Group	p. 244
Changing Font Color	p. 246
Special Characters	p. 247
Find and Replace	p. 249
Checking Your Spelling	p. 253
Paragraphs and Block Formatting	p. 255
Paragraphs vs. Line Breaks	p. 256
Breaking Lines Without Adding a Blank Line	p. 257
About Paragraph Tags	p. 258
Creating Headings	p. 259
Using Preformatted Text	p. 260
Formatting Lists	p. 262
Aligning Paragraphs	p. 267
Indenting Text	p. 268
The Nonbreaking Space	p. 270
Inserting Ruled Lines	p. 272
Creating HTML Styles	p. 273
Creating New Styles	p. 276
Editing Styles	p. 281
Applying HTML Styles	p. 282
Removing Style Formatting	p. 284
Sharing the Styles File	p. 286
Stylin' with Style Sheets	p. 289
In This Chapter	p. 291
How Style Sheets Work	p. 292
Kinds of Styles	p. 293
Kinds of Style Sheets	p. 296
Creating a Style	p. 298
Redefining an HTML Tag	p. 300
Creating a Style Class	p. 303
Applying a Style Class	p. 305
Removing and Deleting Styles	p. 307
Defining New Selectors	p. 309
Using External Style Sheets	p. 314
Attaching an Existing External Style Sheet	p. 316
Adding Styles to an External Style Sheet	p. 317
Exporting Internal Styles into an External Style Sheet	p. 318
Saving a Page with CSS Formatting as Plain HTML	p. 320
Editing Styles	p. 321
About Conflicting Styles	p. 324
Style Definitions	p. 326
Type Attributes	p. 328
Background Attributes	p. 331
Block Attributes	p. 334
Box Attributes	p. 337
Border Attributes	p. 339
List Attributes	p. 340
Extensions	p. 342
Setting Up Tables	p. 343
Setting Up Tables	p. 344
About Layout Tables	p. 345
Getting Help Starting Your Table	p. 347
Inserting a Table in Standard View	p. 349
Drawing a Layout	p. 350
Selecting Elements	p. 354
Adding Columns and Rows in Standard View	p. 357
Resizing Table Elements	p. 360
Dragging Columns and Rows in Standard View	p. 363
Moving a Layout Element	p. 364
About Width Settings in Layout View	p. 365
Merging and Splitting Cells	p. 371
Adding Content to a Table	p. 373
Aligning Tables and Content	p. 374
Adjusting Table Spacing	p. 376
Working with Table Borders	p. 377
Coloring Tables	p. 378
Setting a Background Image	p. 380
Sorting Table Contents	p. 382
Framing Pages	p. 385
Frames and Navigation	p. 386
Setting Up a Frames Page	p. 388
Creating Frames by Dragging	p. 389
Quick and Dirty Frames	p. 391
About Nested Framesets	p. 394
Selecting Frames and Framesets	p. 396
Modifying the Frame Page Layout	p. 398
Deleting a Frame	p. 399
Setting Exact and Relative Sizes for Frames	p. 400
Setting Content Pages	p. 403
Creating Content within a Frame	p. 404
Saving Your Work	p. 405
Frame Page Options	p. 408
Setting Margins	p. 411
Targeting Links	p. 412
Setting Targets	p. 414
Testing Your Targets	p. 416
Creating No-Frames Content	p. 417
Layers and Positioning	p. 419
CSS Positioning	p. 421
Absolute vs. Relative Positioning	p. 422
Positioning Properties	p. 423
About the Layers Panel	p. 425
About the Grid	p. 426
Creating Layers	p. 427
Selecting Layers	p. 428
Renaming a Layer	p. 429
Moving Layers	p. 430
Resizing Layers	p. 432
Overlapping and Nesting	p. 434
Changing Layer Visibility	p. 437
Stacking Order	p. 438
Content and Layers	p. 441
Layers and Styles	p. 442
The Clipping Area	p. 443
Content Overflow	p. 445
Setting a Background	p. 446
Layer Preferences	p. 447
Converting Layers to Tables (and Vice Versa)	p. 449
Using a Tracing Image	p. 453
Filling Out Forms	p. 455
Creating a Form	p. 456
Formatting Forms	p. 458
Adding Form Objects	p. 459
Names and Values	p. 460
Text Boxes	p. 461
Check Boxes	p. 466
Radio Buttons	p. 467
Menus and Lists	p. 470
Editing Menu Items	p. 472
Creating a List Box	p. 473
Jump Menus	p. 474
Hidden Form Fields	p. 477
Submit and Reset Buttons	p. 479
Image Fields	p. 481
Organizing Forms Using Fieldsets and Legends	p. 483
Making It Go	p. 486
Behavior Modification	p. 489
JavaScript Concepts	p. 490
Adding Behaviors	p. 492
Deleting and Editing Behaviors	p. 495
Common Objects	p. 498
Event Handlers	p. 500
Common Actions	p. 502
Setting Status Bar Message	p. 503
Going to a New URL	p. 504
Popup Message	p. 505
Opening a New Browser Window	p. 506
Checking Browser for Plug-in	p. 508
Checking Browser Version	p. 510
Complex Rollovers	p. 512
Preload Images	p. 514
Restoring Swapped Images	p. 515
Play Sound	p. 516
Control Shockwave or Flash	p. 517
Show or Hide Layers	p. 518
Validate Form Data	p. 520
Changing the Content of Frames and Layers	p. 522
Setting Text in a Form Field	p. 525
Change Property	p. 526
Making Layers Draggable	p. 528
Adding New Scripts and Behaviors	p. 532
Adding More Actions	p. 534
Automating Dreamweaver	p. 537
About Libraries	p. 538
What Library Items Do	p. 540
Creating a Library Item	p. 541
Inserting and Removing Library Items	p. 542
Editing Library Items	p. 543
Deleting a Library Item	p. 546
Re-creating a Library Item	p. 547
Dreamweaver Templates	p. 549
About the Template Process	p. 551
Creating Templates	p. 553
Setting Page Properties on Templates and Pages	p. 554
Using CSS and JavaScript	p. 555
About Template Regions	p. 556
Setting Editable Regions	p. 557
Editable Region Quirks	p. 559
Adding Repeating Regions	p. 562
Editable Tag Attributes	p. 565
Creating Pages Based on a Template	p. 569
Using Editable Regions	p. 571
Detaching a Page from a Template	p. 574
Deleting a Template	p. 576
Attaching an Existing Page to a Template	p. 577
Editing Template Files	p. 580
Highlights for Templates	p. 581
Exporting as XML	p. 582
Updating Your Site	p. 586
Renaming Templates and Library Items	p. 588
Using Server-Side Includes	p. 589
Inserting SSIs	p. 591
Using the History Panel	p. 592
Repeating and Undoing Actions	p. 594
Copying and Pasting Steps	p. 598
Clearing the History List	p. 600
Saving Steps as Commands	p. 601
Recording a Command	p. 602
Replaying Commands	p. 603
Renaming and Removing Commands	p. 604
Customizing Dreamweaver	p. 607
Rearranging Panels and Panel Groups	p. 608
Customizing Pre-Built Pages	p. 613
About XML	p. 617
Custom Objects	p. 618
Using Your New Custom Object	p. 626
Editing Dreamweaver Menus	p. 627
About the Menus.xml File	p. 628
About Menu Items	p. 631
Rearranging Menu Items	p. 633
Deleting a Menu Item	p. 635
Adding a Separator	p. 636
Extending Dreamweaver with the JavaScript API	p. 638
Changing Keyboard Shortcuts	p. 639
Customizing Dialog Boxes	p. 644
Managing Your Web Sites	p. 647
Getting Ready to Put Your Site Online	p. 648
Setting Up Remote Info	p. 650
Connecting to Your Server	p. 654
Getting and Putting Files	p. 655
Using Check-in Names	p. 657
Checking Out Files	p. 660
Checking In Files	p. 661
Enabling Automatic Uploads	p. 663
Cloaking: Preventing Files From Uploading	p. 664
Synchronizing Modified Files	p. 666
Refreshing and Switching Views	p. 668
Using the Site Map	p. 669
Site Map Icons and Tips	p. 671
Drawing Links in the Site Map	p. 673
Managing Links	p. 674
Changing a Link Sitewide	p. 680
Site FTP Preferences	p. 681
Index	p. 685
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