Learning Macromedia DreamWeaver 8

A web site for the TravelWise Travel Agency is built throughout the Modules.

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Summary of Module 1 Chapters

Chapter 1: Introduction to DreamWeaver 8

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 Travel Packages page is created:

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Chapter 4: Creating Links

This chapter demonstrates how to link text and graphics. Text then graphic links are added to the Travel Packages page.

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Chapter 5: Anchor Points and Hotspots

This chapter demonstrates how to add links within a page (anchor links)and how to create links on sections of a page (hotspots or image maps). The following page is used to create hotspots on a world map.

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Chapter 6: Site Assets and Library Items

This chapter demonstrates how to use the Assets panel 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 navigation bar library item and an updated date library item.

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Chapter 7: 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 8: Using Templates and Layout Tools

This chapter introduces to concept of templates. A template for the Travel Agency is created and applied to other 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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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 10: Editing and Importing Tools

This chapter provides activities that demonstrate how to make simple adjustments to images within DreamWeaver using its built in FireWorks tools and how to import formatted text and tables from Microsoft Word and Excel. The following page is created from a supplied Word document.

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Chapter 11: Navigation Bars

This chapter demonstrates how to add a Navigation Bars with rollover buttons. The template is updated to provide buttons along the left side of the page.

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Chapter 12: Checking and Uploading Web Files

This chapter demonstrates how to run browser checks and report 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.

Project 1

For multi-user purchases Students are set the task of using the web authoring skills that they have learned during the module to create a web site for a used car dealer. All the text needed to complete the project is included.

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