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H O M E
  Misc.

 

Demo of possible values for  <font size=what > 

Not directly relevant, but here's a good site that helps you identify any font...

Here's a good Dreamweaver fan site

Here's Macromedia's Dreamweaver Developer site

More art sites

UNO38 Animacione Festivale

one38 Auction

one38 Covers (click on Covers in the left frame)

Walkerart.org from Ms. Schlein.

Your URL's are listed in the Role page...

  Dreamweaver MX

Uses & Limits

Dreamweaver splash screen

A little history, back to 1997 and Kevin Lynch.

A great tool with capabilities we can't begin to cover here, but it can also be a crutch.

Know your HTML codes as tags, not UI gestures. Believe me, you won't regret it, especially when you need to
EDIT THE HTML LATER.

 

  Setting Defaults

Code Format

Dreamweaver Preferences Dialog Code Format

Change default Code Format to:

Use: Tabs
Index Size: 3
Tab Size 3
Default Lower Case: 3
Override Case Of: Tags Attributes

 

New Documents

Dreamweaver Preferences Dialog New Doc Settings

Change New Document to "Make Document XHTML Compliant" on.

 

  Setting Up Your Site

Create A New Site

Open the Site Window from the Window Menu and choose New Site

Site Window New Site selection

 

Define A Site:
Editing Files

Name your site. Here's a good place to start practicing your file naming conventions.

Ignore using server technology

Choose "Edit local copies..." then use the browse button to set a folder on your local hard drive to store your files.

 

Sharing Files

Choose FTP (File Transfer Protocol) to connect to the pixel server.

Your individual logins are your first initial last name (no spaces) and your password is the one you handed in to me.

You don't need to fill out the folder on the server. You are automatically pointed there by the server when you log in.

NOTE: Don't set your password to "Save" on school machines!

This will put your files up for public viewing on the World Wide Web.

Your final setup page should look close to this:

 

  Creating A New Doc

 

From File: New

Make sure to select the "Make Document XHTML Compliant"

Suggestion: Check out the Page Designs. They're well crafted and generally easy to take apart and see how they work.

 

  Walking Around The UI

The Menu Bar

Important Menu Features

Edit
Select Parent/Child tags
Find/Replace - Very powerful, even dangerous
Preferences
View
Table View - DON'T use Layout View!
Modify
Ignore for now
Text
Pretty much all the tags we've already discussed
Commands
Access to Page Properties
Window
Open these:
Insert
Properties
Tag Inspector
Snippets
Reference
Site

 

The Document Bar

Code/Design Views

Title

File Management

Preview In Browser

 

Insert Bar

Common

Link
Email
Use with caution
Anchor
Table
Draw Layer - DON'T
Flash
HR
Date
Comment
Tag Chooser - DON'T

Layout - DON'T

Text

Handy visual tool for tags effecting text

Table - Not Yet

Frames - DON'T

Forms - Not Yet

Templates - DON'T

Characters

 

Tag Tree Inspector

Cool, very cool. Learn to use it, it is your good friend.

Size & Download Time

Off in the opposite corner

Gives you the current size of the doc, and can set the size of the window to emulate a target browser window size.

 

Reference Window

Note the browser validity listing in the upper right corner.

Snippets Window

Check it out! Useful examples of how to do common bits of coding.

 

Site Window

Local or Remote view

Check Links button

Synchronize feature

  Auto Insert

And Now,
The Coolest Thing of All

  Exercises: Look familiar?

 

If you need some text, here’s some greeking text.

 

From Lecture 2

1
A basic page

Build a web page that looks like this:

 

2
Work with content based tags

Build a page with a headline, 3 sets of subheads with at least 2 paragraphs under each subhead, only using content-structural tags and using all of these:

<h1> <h2> <h3> <p> <ul> <blockquote>
<cite><em><strong>

 

 

3
Work with non content based tags

Build a third page like the one above, but throw in <b>, <big>, <i>, <small>, <tt> as well.

If you've got that worked out, try nesting some of the tags!

 

4
Work with Special Characters

Make this using special characters:

Here's a listing.

Note the use of four non-breaking spaces after the exclamation point and before “Hmpf.”

 

5
Advanced
Lists

Build a page that shows the three different types of lists


Use this as a reference: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_lists.asp


 

From Lecture 3

6
horizontal rules

Get image here

Make a page with horizontal rules that looks like this:

7
Image Tags & Centering

Get image here

Create a page that centers an image with both the <center> and the <p align="center"> tags:

 

8
Wrapping around images

Get text here

Create a page that wraps text around images that looks like this:

Hint: the second paragraph puts the images later down the text.

 

9
Background Images

Get background image here

Build a page that looks like this:

Hints:

The bar is made from the thing.gif.

The header uses a <font> tag with attributes.

 

10
Link an image

Take the page from exercise 9 and link it to the file from exercise 8 using the image as your link.

Try making the image not have a border from the link tag.

11
Linking to an id on another page

Take the page from exercise 10 and link it to the "server" id on the lecture_01.htm page of this site.