Title:
How to use macromedia dreamweaver 8 and fireworks 8
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Publication Information:
USA : Sams Publishing, 2006
ISBN:
9780672327506
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Summary
Summary
This work takes the reader through everything they need to create web pages using Macromedia's Dreamweaver and Fireworks, from entry level concepts to advanced techniques, with illustrations that are easy to follow.
Author Notes
Lon Coley is an IT professional specializing in Office and Internet applications. An experienced teacher and trainer, Lon writes and develops dedicated customized training courses for business and education. These courses cover the whole spectrum of her expertise and are always prepared with the individual client in mind.
Excerpts
Excerpts
ml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> Introduction Dreamweaver 8 is a web page editor you can use to design web pages and to develop and organize your own website. You create web pages graphically, by inserting tables or frames, or by drawing layers (rectangular containers) to position page elements exactly where you want them. In the background, Dreamweaver creates the HTML coding needed by browsers to display the page as you see it onscreen while you're designing it. You can, when desired, view and edit this HTML code directly to refine your design. Dreamweaver includes sophisticated and yet easy-to-use tools for designing and managing a website and its many assets: images, videos, audio files, templates, scripts, color preferences, and even URLs you reference frequently. You can work with pages on your computer and then upload them easily to your website provider's server. When needed, you can download files already on the website, make changes, and then upload the files again. For situations in which multiple people are involved in the creation of a site, Dreamweaver provides a check-in/check-out system that makes management of that site a simple process. In addition, Dreamweaver supports Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which enable you to create styles for text, layers, tables, and other elements, and then reapply those styles throughout the pages of your website. This enables you to maintain a consistent, professional look on your site. Using Dreamweaver, you can build dynamic websites in which users interact with a database--perhaps shopping your catalog of products, entering or retrieving customer data, searching a knowledgebase, and filling a page with live articles. Dreamweaver supports popular database server technologies such as ASP, ASP .NET, ColdFusion, JSP, and PHP. Fireworks 8 is a graphics editor you can use to build the graphic elements of your site, such as web buttons, navigation bars, pop-up menus, and image maps. Fireworks integrates seamlessly with Dreamweaver, creating supporting HTML code for these interactive elements and making it a simple process to integrate these buttons, bars, menus, and image maps into your web pages. Large images can be easily sliced into sections you can then optimize with the image format that best suits the image data in that section. Slices can also be used to change a portion of an image when the user interacts with it, such as by moving the mouse over it. Fireworks creates the needed HTML code for Dreamweaver so that a web browser can reassemble these slices into a complete, interactive image. Fireworks provides the graphical tools you need to build your web images, including layers that help to isolate portions of an image for specific changes, and filters that can apply specific effects such as glows, bevels, and blurs. Using frames, you can build your own animations, such as web banners and animated logos. Fireworks supports the most popular image formats so that you can optimize and save your work for a variety of uses. © Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved. Excerpted from How to Use Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 and Fireworks 8 by Lon Coley, Jennifer Fulton, Scott M. Fulton All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.Table of Contents
Introduction |
1 Planning and Setting Up Your Site |
The Dreamweaver MX 2004 Interface |
How to Set Up Your Site |
How to Create the Home Page |
How to Get and Manage Files |
How to Use Panels |
How to Use Rulers, Grids, and Guides to Align Objects |
How to Create a New Web Page |
2 Managing Assets |
How to Use the Assets Panel |
How to Insert or Apply Assets |
How to Manage Favorite Assets |
How to Use the Library |
How to Use Snippets |
How to Create a Template |
How to Apply a Template to an Existing Page |
3 Laying Out Your Pages |
HTML Code |
How to Create and Attach a Style Sheet |
How to Add, Modify, and Apply Styles |
How to Define a Page's Background and Font with CSS |
How to Create Layers |
How to Manage Layers |
How to Convert Layers to Tables |
How to Create a New Frameset |
How to Edit Frames |
How to Set Frameset Properties |
How to Set Frame Properties |
How to Target Links in a Frameset |
4 Adding Textual Content and Tables |
How to Enter, Format, and Align Normal Text |
How to Add More Fonts |
How to Format Text with the Same Tag with CSS |
How to Format Similar Text with Different Tags with CSS |
How to Import Word or Excel Files |
How to Insert a List |
How to Format Bullets and Lists with CSS |
How to Insert a Table |
How to Modify a Table |
How to Format a Table |
5 Inserting Images, Movies, Sound, and _Other Media |
How to Insert an Image |
How to Change an Image's Properties |
How to Use Image Placeholders |
How to Create a Web Photo Album |
How to Insert a Flash Animation |
How to Insert a Flash Video |
How to Insert Flash Text or a Flash Button |
How to Insert a Flash-Based Script |
How to Embed a Sound File |
How to Embed a Video File |
6 Inserting Hyperlinks and Navigation |
How to Create Hyperlinks |
How to Create an Email Hyperlink |
How to Create Anchors and Thumbnails |
How to Create Null or Script Links |
How to Edit or Delete a Hyperlink |
How to Format Link Styles with CSS |
How to Create an Imagemap in Dreamweaver |
How to Create a Pop-up Menu in Dreamweaver |
How to Build a Navigation Bar in Dreamweaver |
7 Attaching Behaviors |
How to Attach a Behavior to a Page Element |
How to Add a Behavior to a Page |
How to Change or Remove Behaviors |
How to Download More Behaviors |
8 Adding Forms |
How to Create an Input Form |
How to Insert Form Controls |
How to Insert a Text Field |
How to Insert a Drop-Down Menu or List |
How to Insert Radio Buttons |
How to Insert Checkboxes |
How to Validate Form Data |
9 Managing a Website |
How to Validate a Page's Source Code |
How to Ascertain the Accessibility of Pages |
How to Test Browser Compatibility |
How to Test Links |
How to Upload (Put) Files on a Remote Server |
How to Synchronize Pages on Local and Remote Sites |
How to Use Check In/Out and Enter Design Notes |
How to Help People Find Your Web Pages |
10 Basic Image Editing in Fireworks |
The Fireworks 8 Interface |
How to Create and Save a New Image |
How to Change Size, Resolution, or Background Color |
How to Crop an Image |
How to Flip, Rotate, Skew, and Distort an Image |
How to Select a Portion of an Image |
11 Adding Text and Shapes in Fireworks |
How to Add Text to an Image |
How to Edit Text |
How to Attach Text to a Path |
How to Create Vector Shapes |
How to Draw and Edit Vector Paths |
12 Creating Buttons, Navigation Bars, Pop-Up Menus, and Image Maps in Fireworks |
How to Create a Simple Button |