Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Dreamweaver MX in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia® Dreamweaver® MX  in 24 Hours......Page 2
Copyright © 2003 by Sams Publishing......Page 3
Contents at a Glance......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
About the Author......Page 17
We Want to Hear from You!......Page 19
Who Should Use This Book?......Page 20
How to Use This Book......Page 21
PART I Getting Started with Dreamweaver MX......Page 22
HOUR 1 Understanding the Dreamweaver Interface......Page 24
Acquainting Yourself with Dreamweaver......Page 25
Exploring the Dreamweaver Work Area......Page 26
Getting Help......Page 49
Discovering Dreamweaver MX’s New Features......Page 51
Q&A......Page 52
Workshop......Page 53
Creating a New Page and Setting Page Properties......Page 54
Pasting Text from a File......Page 60
Adding a Separator to a Page......Page 64
Saving Your Work and Previewing in a Browser......Page 65
Q&A......Page 67
Workshop......Page 68
Defining a New Web Site......Page 70
Using the Site Definition Wizard......Page 72
Using the Site Panel......Page 76
Using the Site Window......Page 77
Creating a Quick Prototype......Page 78
Editing a Site Definition......Page 79
Considering Site Organization......Page 80
Q&A......Page 82
Workshop......Page 83
HOUR 4 Setting Lots o’ Links: Hyperlinks, URLs, Anchors, and Mailto Links......Page 84
Exploring Relative and Absolute Paths......Page 85
Adding a Hyperlink Within Your Web Site......Page 90
Organizing a Long Page with Named Anchors......Page 92
Using the Point-to-File Icon......Page 94
Adding a Mailto Link......Page 95
Workshop......Page 96
HOUR 5 HTML Is Fun! Viewing and Modifying HTML......Page 98
Exploring Code View......Page 99
Viewing and Editing HTML Tags with the Quick Tag Editor......Page 103
Setting Your Code Preferences......Page 108
Cleaning Up HTML Created with Microsoft Word......Page 112
Workshop......Page 114
PART II Adding Images and Multimedia......Page 116
HOUR 6 Displaying Images on a Page......Page 118
Adding an Image to a Page......Page 119
Exploring Image Flavors: GIF, JPEG, and PNG......Page 125
Creating a Rollover......Page 127
Workshop......Page 128
HOUR 7 Using Fireworks to Create Images......Page 130
Acquainting Yourself with Fireworks......Page 131
Creating an Image......Page 134
Creating a Rollover Image......Page 139
Optimizing Images for Use in a Web Page......Page 142
Slicing an Image into Pieces......Page 144
Placing a Fireworks File into Dreamweaver......Page 146
Workshop......Page 147
Adding Links to a Graphic with Image Maps......Page 150
Creating an Image Map......Page 151
Aligning Hotspots......Page 155
Targeting a Link to Open in a New Browser Window......Page 156
Adding a Navigation Bar with Rollovers and Links......Page 157
Workshop......Page 160
Exploring Multimedia and Bandwidth......Page 162
Understanding Players......Page 163
Adding Flash Files......Page 164
Adding a Link to a PDF File......Page 170
Adding a Sound File......Page 171
Inserting a Java Applet......Page 177
Q&A......Page 179
Workshop......Page 180
HOUR 10 Managing Your Assets with the Assets Panel......Page 182
Managing Assets in the Assets panel......Page 183
Adding Assets to a Web Page......Page 188
Creating Favorite Assets......Page 190
Creating New Assets in the Assets panel......Page 191
Q&A......Page 193
Workshop......Page 194
PART III Web Page Layout with Tables and Frames......Page 196
HOUR 11 Displaying Data with Tables......Page 198
Creating a Table for Data......Page 199
Importing Table Data......Page 208
Summary......Page 210
Workshop......Page 211
HOUR 12 Designing Your Page Layout Using Tables......Page 214
Using Layout View......Page 215
Editing a Table in Standard View......Page 220
Adding Color to Your Table......Page 222
Nesting a Table Within a Table......Page 223
Using a Tracing Image to Transfer a Design to Your Web Page......Page 224
Turning Your Table into Layers......Page 226
Workshop......Page 227
HOUR 13 Understanding and Building Frames and Framesets......Page 230
Creating a Frameset......Page 231
Using the Frames Panel......Page 235
Nesting Frames......Page 236
Using Existing Web Pages with Frames......Page 237
Setting Frame and Frameset Attributes......Page 238
Targeting Linked Pages to Open in a Specific Frame......Page 242
Using the Go To URL Behavior to Load Frames......Page 244
Workshop......Page 245
Quiz......Page 246
PART IV Dynamic HTML: Layers, Cascading Style Sheets, Behaviors, and Timelines......Page 248
HOUR 14 Using Dynamic HTML and Layers......Page 250
Adding a Layer......Page 251
Nesting Layers......Page 260
Q&A......Page 262
Workshop......Page 263
HOUR 15 Formatting Your Web Pages with Cascading Style Sheets and HTML Styles......Page 264
Creating and Applying a Custom Style......Page 265
Exploring Style Settings......Page 268
Redefining the Heading 3 
 Tag......Page 271
Positioning a Layer with a Style......Page 273
Creating a Hyperlink Rollover......Page 275
Creating an External Style Sheet......Page 276
Converting Styles to HTML Markup ( Tags)......Page 278
Saving HTML Markup as an HTML Style......Page 279
Summary......Page 280
Workshop......Page 281
HOUR 16 Inserting Scripted Functionality with Behaviors......Page 282
What Is a Dreamweaver Behavior?......Page 283
Showing and Hiding Layers......Page 286
Opening a New Window......Page 290
Popping Up a Message......Page 292
Adding a Message in the Status Bar......Page 293
Summary......Page 294
Workshop......Page 295
HOUR 17 Adding Advanced Behaviors: Drag Layer......Page 296
Using the Tag Selector to Select the  Tag......Page 297
Constraining the Movement of Your Layer......Page 298
Capturing the Drop Target Location......Page 299
Applying the Drag Layer Behavior Advanced Attributes......Page 301
Selecting a  Tag Event......Page 303
Workshop......Page 304
Creating an Animation......Page 306
Controlling Layer Properties with Timelines......Page 318
Placing a Behavior in the Behaviors Channel......Page 319
Using Multiple Timelines in a Web Page......Page 320
Workshop......Page 321
PART V Collecting User Data with Forms......Page 324
HOUR 19 Creating a Form and Using a Form to Collect Data......Page 326
Creating a Form......Page 327
Adding Radio Buttons and Check Boxes......Page 335
Adding a List or a Menu......Page 337
Adding Push Buttons and Picture Buttons......Page 340
Creating a Jump Menu to Navigate to Different URLs......Page 342
Q&A......Page 345
Workshop......Page 346
HOUR 20 Sending and Reacting to Form Data......Page 348
Validating a Form’s Data Using the Validate Form Behavior......Page 349
Receiving Information from a Form......Page 352
Exploring Submission Security......Page 356
Uploading a File from a Form......Page 357
Preparing Your Page to Interact with Active Server Pages (ASP), JSP, PHP, or CFML......Page 358
Q&A......Page 362
Workshop......Page 363
PART VI Organizing and Uploading Your Project......Page 366
HOUR 21 Managing and Uploading Your Project......Page 368
Enabling Server Connection......Page 369
Moving Your Site onto a Remote Server......Page 375
Understanding Dreamweaver’s Web Site Management Capabilities......Page 377
Transferring Files......Page 378
Editing an Entire Site......Page 381
Adding Design Notes to Your Pages......Page 387
Generating Reports About Your Web Site......Page 389
Summary......Page 390
Workshop......Page 391
HOUR 22 Reusing Items in Your Web Site with the Library......Page 394
Creating a Library Item......Page 395
Making Changes to a Library Item......Page 403
Using Behaviors and Styles in Library Items......Page 404
Workshop......Page 406
HOUR 23 Creating and Applying a Template......Page 408
Creating a Template......Page 409
Applying a Template to a Web Page......Page 417
Using Behaviors, Styles, and Timelines in Templates......Page 418
Summary......Page 419
Workshop......Page 420
HOUR 24 Using Server-Side Includes and Adding a Date......Page 422
What Is a Server-Side Include?......Page 423
Inserting a Server-Side Include......Page 424
Adding a Last Modified Date......Page 429
Q&A......Page 430
Workshop......Page 431
PART VII Appendices......Page 432
Recommended Books......Page 434
General Web Development......Page 435
Dreamweaver Extensions......Page 436
Scripting Resources: CGI, JavaScript, ASP, PHP, and CFML......Page 437
Browsers......Page 438
Organizations......Page 439
APPENDIX B Customizing Dreamweaver......Page 440
Creating a Custom Snippet......Page 441
Making a Menu Command......Page 442
Managing Extensions......Page 445
Symbols......Page 448
INDEX......Page 460