Essential Dreamweaver� 4.0 fast: Rapid Web Development

by Fiaz Hussain

Overview

Macromedia Dreamweaver 4.0 provides an exciting environment for creating and managing web pages and web sites. Fiaz Hussain gives a quick, but effective, introduction to the various key components and tools making up the development studio. Using a hands-on approach, with plenty of animated illustrations, Essential Dreamweaver 4.0 fast:

- shows the simple and valuable steps necessary to design, develop, evaluate and publish a web site;

- explains the essential components of building a web-site, through hand-coding HTML or JavaScript, or via the Visual Editor, or by means of both;

- discusses how to include text, images, links, forms, frames, layers, HTML, JavaScript and style sheets.

Essential Dreamweaver 4.0 fast gives an easy explanation of the basic tools needed to build and manage sophisticated web sites quickly. The source code for the examples in the book is available from the Essential Series web site: http://www.essential-series.com

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781852335731
Publisher:	Springer London
Publication date:	08/26/2002
Series:	Essential Series
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

1. Dreamweaver Environment.- The environment.- The toolbar.- The Objects panel.- The Property Inspector panel.- The launcher bar.- 2. Dreamweaver Basics.- Creating a site structure.- Creating a local site.- Understanding the site map.- Understanding site assets.- Understanding templates.- Creating and using templates.- 3. Working with Cells and Tables.- Understanding web page design.- Choosing a layout view.- Designing a page layout.- Adding multiple cells.- Understanding and using tables.- Using Standard View for tables.- Using Autostretch for page layout.- 4. Working with Characters and Text.- Adding text to a page.- Importing text to a page.- Understanding text formatting.- Adjusting text size.- Adjusting text position.- Adjusting text colour.- Adjusting text styling.- Using text search.- Adding special characters.- 5. Working with Images.- Understanding images.- Adding images to a page.- Resizing an image.- Aligning images and text.- Editing an image.- Using Alt attribute.- Creating image rollover effects.- Adding a background image.- Adding an image border.- 6. Working with Links and Hyperlinks.- Defining link paths.- Creating linked images.- Understanding image maps.- Adding image maps.- Adjusting image hotspots.- Linking within a page.- Linking to other parts of a site.- Adding a Mailto link.- 7. Working with Layers.- Establishing layer preferences.- Adding layers to a page.- Positioning layers.- Resizing layers.- Understanding layer properties.- Defining layer visible region.- Working with multiple layers.- Understanding nested layers.- Using layer and table relationships.- Understanding animation.- Using the timelines panel.- Creating a simple animation.- Creating animation via keyframes.- 8. Working with Frames.- Understanding framesets.- Creating nested framesets.- Using the frames panel.- Using the frames properties panel.- Using links for frame content.- Saving framesets and frames.- 9. Working with HTML and Javascript.- Understanding HTML.- Viewing HTML code.- Editing HTML code.- Setting code preferences.- Adding JavaScript.- Supporting code features.- 10. Working with Style Sheets and Forms.- Creating HTML styles.- Understanding CSS.- Creating a HTML tag style.- Creating a customised CSS style.- Creating a special-effect CSS style.- Creating an external style sheet.- Understanding forms.- Adding a form to a page.- Adding form buttons.- 11. Testing and Publishing.- Steps for site management.- Managing links.- Changing browsers.- Viewing download performance.- Generating reports.- Debugging JavaScript.- Publishing a site.