Learning DreamWeaver MX

Module 1 Summary

The following pages provide a summary of the skills developed and the types of pages produced in Module 1 and 2 of Learning Macromedia DreamWeaver MX. Pages for a Travel Agency are developed and incorporated into a web site.

Chapter 1: Introduction to DreamWeaver MX

This chapter demonstrates the different panels and tool bars on the DreamWeaver screen then students are shown how to set up a site.

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Chapter 2: Entering Text and Graphics

This chapter provides activities that demonstrate how to insert text and graphics into a page. Students are shown how to format text, adjust the size and position of images, insert page backgrounds and horizontal rules. The following page is created:

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Chapter 3: Using Tables

This chapter demonstrates how to insert and format tables. Students learn how to enter text and images into tables, name tables, adjust column widths and row heights, use rulers and grids and add backgrounds to tables. The following page is created:

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Chapter 4: Creating Links

This chapter demonstrates the different types of links available in DreamWeaver. Students learn how to create links on text, links on images, links within pages (anchor links) and image maps (links on sections of images). The following page is used in the links on images and image map sections.

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Chapter 5: Creating Forms

This chapter demonstrates how to create Forms. It shows how to insert the form tag, how to insert the text fields, how to insert pop-up menus and add values to the menu, how to insert radio buttons and check boxes, how to insert submit and reset buttons, and how to name the form and set its post properties. The following order form is created:

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Chapter 6: Site Assets and Library Items

This chapter demonstrates how to use the Assets palette to manage and use the resources of the site, and how to create Library items such as the date a page was updated message on pages and placing link tables as a library items to automate the updating of links on pages. The following page is used to include a links table library item and an updated date library item.

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Chapter 7: Using Frames

This chapter demonstrates how to set up a simple web site using frames. The page split into frames becomes the control centre of the web site. It shows students how to create frames, name and save frames, save a frameset, shade frames, set links and target the link to a specific frame to produce the following page:

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Chapter 8: Enhancing Web Pages

This chapter demonstrates how to improve the appearance of web pages through the use of Navigation Bars, Flash text and Flash Buttons. The frames from the following chapter are updated to utilise these features.

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Module 2 Summary

The following pages provide a summary of the skills developed and the types of pages produced in Module 2 of Learning Macromedia DreamWeaver MX. The Travel Agency site developed in Module 1 is used to introduce the more advanced features of DreamWeaver.

Chapter 9: Using layers

This chapter provides activities that demonstrate the use of the Layers tool. It covers how to create a layer, insert content into a layer, change the stacking order of layers, move layers, place tables within layers, convert layers to tables and vice versa. The following page is created:

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Chapter 10: Using Templates and Layout Tools

This chapter introduces to concept of templates. A template for the Travel Agency is created and applied to add the pages in the site. Adjustments are made to the template to show how all the pages set to the template are also adjusted. The use of Layout tools are also introduced in the creation of the following template

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Chapter 11: Using Styles

This chapter provides activities that demonstrate how to use HTML Styles and CSS Styles to ensure that text is consistently formatted in all pages of a web site. For CSS Styles, Internal Style Sheets, External Custom Styles and Redefining HTML tags are used. The following page is produced:

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Chapter 12: Using Behaviours

This chapter demonstrates how to set behaviours to control operations of a web site. It covers how to set pop-up help messages, how to create pop-up links, how to recognise the type of browser being used to view the web site and how to display an image by clicking on a button or a smaller image, how to set validation behaviours in order forms, how to create pop-up menus and how to create rollover images, for example:

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Chapter 13: Timeline Animations

This chapter provides activities that demonstrate how to insert simple animations from within DreamWeaver using the Timeline function. It shows how to animate a logo placed in a layer, loop an animation, animate more that one object, animate along a path, how to set a link to start an animation and how to create a slide show.

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Chapter 14: Creating Commands

This chapter demonstrates how to record command steps so that they can be used when required. Students are shown how to record table formats and to set all images to the same size.

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Chapter 15: Checking and Uploading Web Files

This chapter demonstrates how to run checks on web sites, cloak file types and folders that don't need to be uploaded to a remote sever, uploading files to a remote folder and managing files once they have been uploaded.

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