Learning DreamWeaver 4.0

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Summary of the Chapters

Pages for a Travel Agency are progrssively developed and incorporated into a web site.

Chapter 1: Creating a Home Page

This chapter demonstrates the design considerations of a web page, the graphics format and text formats that can be used. The DreamWeaver work page and palettes are introduced, how to enter text, format that text, insert graphics and add page backgrounds to produce a simple page such as:

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Chapter 2: Using Tables

This chapter provides activities that demonstrate how to insert text and graphics accurately on a page using tables. It covers aligning text within cells, turning table borders on and off, cell padding and spacing, adjusting column width or cell height, adding or deleting rows and columns, cell indents and adding a background to tables to produce a page like:

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Chapter 3: Using Frames

This chapter demonstrates how to set up a simple link page using frames. It shows 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 4: 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 then linked to the frames page:

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Chapter 5: Creating Links to Other Internet Sites

This chapter demonstrates how to set links other internet sites, how to display those sites over the whole screen or within a frame and how to insert an e-mail link. The following page is created:

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Chapter 6: Enhancing Web Pages

This chapter demonstrates how to enhance the appearance of web pages through the use of buttons to link pages, rollover buttons, navigation bars and animated images. Some of the previous pages are adjusted, for example:

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Chapter 7: Managing Web Sites

This chapter demonstrates how to manage a web site using DreamWeaver's site function, how to use the Assets palette to manage the resources of the site, and how to create Library items. The following site structure is used:

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Chapter 8: Using layers

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

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Chapter 9: 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 10: Cascading Style Sheets

This chapter provides activities that demonstrate how to use Internal Style Sheets, External Custom Styles and Redefining HTML tags to ensure that text is displayed consistently within a site. The following page is produced:

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Chapter 11: 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, how to loop an animation, how to animate along a path and how to set a link to start an animation

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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, for example:

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Chapter 13: Flash Text and Flash Buttons

This chapter demonstrates how to enhance the appearance of web pages through the use of Flash Text and Flash Buttons. One of the earlier pages is enhanced, for example:

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Chapter 14: Creating More Detailed Web Pages

This chapter demonstrates how to create more elaborate web pages incorporating many of the skills developed in previous chapters including the use of templates, layout tools, timeline animations, as well as the anchor tool and links within a page. The following page is created.

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