Dreamweaver 4 Hands-On Training,9780201741339

Dreamweaver 4 Hands-On Training

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ISBN13: 9780201741339
ISBN10: 0201741334
Format: Paperback w/CD
Pub. Date: 2001-07-01
Publisher(s): Pearson P T R
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Summary

Dreamweaver 4 Hands-On Training, the latest book in Lynda Weinman's Hands-On Trainingseries, teaches Dreamweaver in a series of hands-on projects. This new edition provides classroom-style exercises that will teach you how to build sophisticated Web sites with little effort. Complete with insider tips and illustrated with detailed graphics, readers will master the basics of site management, layers, tables, style sheets, frames, rollovers, and more. The companion CD includes all the support and graphic files for the hands-on exercises, including QuickTime movies of Lynda and Garo demonstrating key techniques, plus a demo version of Dreamweaver 4.

Table of Contents

Introduction xiv
A Note from Lynda Weinman xiv
About the Author xvi
Our Team xvii
Acknowledgments xviii
How to Use This Book xix
HTML versus HTM xx
The Moon's Nest Inn, Again? xx
Macintosh and Windows Interface Screen Captures xx
Mac and Windows System Differences xx
A Note to Windows Users xxii
Making Exercise Files Editable on Windows Systems xxii
Making File Extensions Visible on Windows Systems xxiv
Creating New Documents xxvii
Dreamweaver System Requirements xxviii
What's on the CD-ROM? xxix
Background
2(10)
What Is Dreamweaver?
2(1)
Roundtrip HTML
3(1)
Do You Need to Learn HTML to Use Dreamweaver?
4(1)
HTML Resources
4(1)
What Does HTML Do?
5(1)
What Does HTML Look Like?
5(1)
HTML Deconstructed
6(1)
File-Naming Conventions
7(1)
File Name Extensions
8(1)
Extending Dreamweaver
8(1)
What Is DHTML?
9(1)
What Is XML?
10(1)
What is JavaScript?
10(2)
Interface
12(20)
A Tour of the Interface
13(1)
The Objects Panel
14(2)
Types of Objects
16(2)
The Property Inspector
18(1)
The Launcher and Mini-Launcher
18(2)
Customizing the Launcher
20(1)
Launcher Shortcuts
20(1)
The Toolbar
21(2)
The Document Window
23(2)
Document Window Views
25(1)
Preferences
25(1)
External Editors
25(1)
Preset Window Sizes
26(3)
Shortcut Keys
29(3)
Site Control
32(22)
What is a Local Root Folder?
33(1)
Exercise 1_Defining a Site
34(4)
Exercise 2_Relative and Absolute Links
38(4)
Exercise 3_File and Folder Management
42(3)
Exercise 4_Understanding Path Structure
45(3)
Different Path Notations
48(1)
Exercise 5_Creating a Site Map
49(2)
Exercise 6_Creating a Site from Nothing
51(3)
Basics
54(32)
Exercise 1_Defining the Site
55(2)
Exercise 2_Creating and Saving a Document
57(2)
File Names Versus Titles
59(1)
The Significance of index.html
60(1)
Exercise 3_Inserting Images
61(2)
Exercise 4_Inserting Text
63(3)
Exercise 5_Centering Images and Text
66(1)
Exercise 6_Modifying Page Properties
67(4)
The Page Properties Window
71(1)
The Dreamweaver Color Pickers
72(1)
Exercise 7_Creating Links with Images and Text
73(4)
Exercise 8_META Tags
77(3)
Exercise 9_Background Images
80(3)
Exercise 10_Looking at the HTML
83(3)
Linking
86(38)
Exercise 1_Linking with Point to File
87(4)
Exercise 2_Linking to New Source Files
91(6)
Exercise 3_Browse for File and the Link History
97(5)
Exercise 4_Creating Email Links
102(4)
Exercise 5_Named Anchors
106(9)
Exercise 6_Image Maps
115(3)
Exercise 7_Linking to Files
118(6)
Typography
124(42)
A Word about FONT FACE
125(2)
Exercise 1_Creating and Formatting HTML Text
127(4)
Exercise 2_Font Lists
131(7)
Exercise 3_Aligning Text
138(2)
Aligning Text and Images
140(1)
Exercise 4_Ordered, Unordered, and Definition Lists
141(2)
Exercise 5_Color Schemes
143(2)
Exercise 6_Formatting Text in Tables
145(2)
Exercise 7_Repeat Last Action
147(3)
Exercise 8_Applying HTML Styles
150(5)
HTML Styles Options
155(1)
Exercise 9_Character Entities
156(2)
Macintosh and Windows Character Entities
158(1)
What is Flash Text?
159(1)
Exercise 10_Creating Flash Text
160(6)
Tables
166(70)
What Is a Table?
167(2)
Exercise 1_Changing the Border of a Table
169(5)
Exercise 2_Sorting the Table
174(2)
The Sort Table Dialog Box
176(1)
Exercise 3_Changing the Color Scheme
177(5)
Exercise 4_Creating and Modifying a Table
182(7)
Exercise 5_Aligning Images and Text with Tables
189(14)
Exercise 6_Percentage-Based Table Alignment
203(5)
Exercise 7_Seamless Image Assembly
208(4)
Exercise 8_Combining Pixels and Percentages
212(3)
Exercise 9_Inserting Tab-Delimited Data
215(2)
Insert Tabular Data Settings
217(2)
Exercise 10_Nested Tables and Borders
219(8)
Exercise 11_Rounded Corner Tables
227(9)
Layout
236(48)
What are Tracing Images, Layers and Tables?
237(1)
Exercise 1_Applying a Tracing Image
238(6)
Tracing Images, Background Colors, and Images
244(1)
Exercise 2_Adding Layers
245(9)
Exercise 3_Converting Layers to Tables
254(3)
Convert Layers to Table Options
257(1)
Exercise 4_Converting Tables to Layers
258(4)
Exercise 5_Using Margin Tags
262(4)
What is the Layout View?
266(2)
Exercise 6_Layout Tables and Layout Cells
268(16)
Frames
284(38)
What Are Frames?
285(1)
Frames: A Love-or-Hate Proposition
286(2)
Exercise 1_Saving Your First Frameset
288(6)
Different Ways to Save Frames
294(1)
Exercise 2_Coloring Frames
295(3)
Exercise 3_Links and Targets
298(5)
Target Names
303(2)
Exercise 4_Adding a Background Image
305(8)
Exercise 5_Seamless Background Across Two Frames
313(4)
Exercise 6_Frames Objects Panel
317(5)
Rollovers
322(40)
Rollover Rules
323(1)
Exercise 1_Creating a Simple Rollover
323(3)
Exercise 2_Animated Rollovers!
326(3)
Exercise 3_Creating Pointer Rollovers
329(6)
Exercise 4_Creating Multiple-Event Rollovers
335(5)
What are Flash Buttons?
340(2)
Exercise 5_Creating Flash Buttons
342(8)
Exercise 6_Inserting a Navigation Bar Rollover
350(1)
Different Rollover States
351(8)
Exercise 7_Inserting a Simple Rollover from Fireworks
359(3)
Cascading Style Sheets
362(34)
Style Sheets-A Hard Decision?
363(1)
The Cascading Part of Style Sheets
363(1)
Types of Style Sheets
363(2)
Exercise 1_Redefining HTML with Style Sheets
365(6)
Exercise 2_Defining a Custom Class
371(5)
Exercise 3_Using Selectors to Group Tags
376(3)
Exercise 4_Affecting Links with Selectors
379(3)
Redefine HTML, Custom Class, or Selector?
382(1)
Exercise 5_Linking to a Style Sheet
383(10)
Exercise 6_Converting from CSS to HTML
393(3)
HTML
396(24)
Exercise 1_The Code View
397(6)
Exercise 2_Editing in the Code View
403(4)
Exercise 3_Using the Quick Tag Editor
407(4)
Exercise 4_Cleaning Up HTML
411(4)
Options for Cleaning Up HTML
415(1)
Exercise 5_Cleaning Up Word HTML
416(4)
Forms
420(26)
The Form Objects Panel
421(1)
Form Objects
422(2)
Exercise 1_Working with Form Objects
424(8)
Exercise 2_Creating a Form
432(6)
Exercise 3_Creating a Jump Menu
438(8)
Behaviors
446(52)
Exercise 1_Creating a Check Browser Behavior
447(9)
Exercise 2_Creating a Set Text of Status Bar Behavior
456(4)
Exercise 3_Creating a Set Text of Text Field Behavior
460(6)
Exercise 4_Opening a New Browser Window
466(6)
Exercise 5_Validating Forms with Behaviors
472(4)
The Macromedia Exchange-Dreamweaver
476(1)
Exercise 6_Installing the Macromedia Extension Manager
477(5)
Exercise 7_Inserting Image Ready HTML
482(7)
Exercise 8_Downloading from Macromedia Exchange
489(9)
DHTML
498(32)
Exercise 1_Dragging Layers
500(6)
Exercise 2_Using the Timeline for Animation
506(5)
Exercise 3_Playing, Stopping, and Resetting the Timeline
511(5)
Exercise 4_Creating a DHTML Pop-Up Menu
516(14)
Automation
530(34)
What Is the History Panel?
531(1)
Exercise 1_Using the History Panel for Undo/Redo
532(5)
Exercise 2_Copying and Pasting History
537(4)
Exercise 3_Creating Custom Objects
541(9)
Getting More Commands
550(2)
What Is a Web Photo Album?
552(1)
Exercise 4_Creating a Web Photo Album
553(5)
Exercise 5_Optimizing Images in Fireworks
558(6)
Templates/Libraries
564(22)
Exercise 1_Templates in Action
565(5)
Exercise 2_Creating a New Template
570(6)
Exercise 3_Modifying a Template
576(3)
Exercise 4_Library Items in Action
579(3)
Exercise 5_Creating a Library Item
582(2)
Exercise 6_Modifying a Library Item
584(2)
Plug-Ins
586(16)
Plug-Ins Require Viewer Participation
587(1)
Exercise 1_Linking to Sounds
588(3)
Different Sound Formats
591(1)
Exercise 2_Embedding Sounds
592(3)
Exercise 3_Inserting Flash Content
595(2)
Exercise 4_Inserting Director (Shockwave) Content
597(2)
What Is Quick Time?
599(1)
Exercise 5_Inserting a Quick Time Movie
600(2)
Getting It Online
602(18)
Free Web Hosting with GeoCities
603(1)
Exercise 1_Signing Up with GeoCities
604(5)
Exercise 2_Setting the FTP Preferences
609(2)
What Is FTP?
611(1)
Exercise 3_Putting Files onto the Web Server
612(4)
Exercise 4_Getting Site Reports
616(1)
The Reports Dialog Box
617(3)
Troubleshooting FAQ (Appendix A) 620(6)
Online Resources (Appendix B) 626(4)
Lynda.com Discussion Groups
627(1)
Other Dreamweaver Discussion Groups
627(1)
Listservs
627(1)
A Few Third-Party Dreamweaver Web Sites
628(2)
Technical Support (Appendix C) 630(2)
Macromedia Technical Support
631(1)
Peachpit Press
631(1)
lynda.com
631(1)
Index 632

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