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Misc. |
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Demo of possible
values for <font size=what
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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...
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Dreamweaver MX |
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Uses & Limits
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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.
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Setting Defaults |
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Code Format
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Change default Code Format to:
Use: Tabs
Index Size: 3
Tab Size 3
Default Lower Case: 3
Override Case Of: Tags Attributes
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New Documents
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Change New Document to "Make Document XHTML Compliant" on.
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Setting Up Your Site |
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Create A New Site
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Open the Site Window from the Window Menu and choose New Site

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Define A Site:
Editing Files
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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.

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Sharing Files
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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:

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Creating A New Doc |
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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.

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Walking Around The UI |
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The Menu Bar
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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
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The Document Bar
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Code/Design Views
Title
File Management
Preview In Browser
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Insert Bar
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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

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

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Size & Download Time
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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.
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Reference Window
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Note the browser validity listing in the upper right corner.
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Snippets Window
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Check it out! Useful examples of how to do common bits of coding.
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Site Window
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Local or Remote view
Check Links button
Synchronize feature
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Auto Insert |
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And Now,
The Coolest Thing of All
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Exercises: Look familiar? |
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If you need some text, here’s some greeking
text.
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From Lecture
2
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A basic page
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Build a web page that looks like this:

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Work with content based tags
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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>

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Work with non content based tags
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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!
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Work with Special Characters
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Make this using special characters:
Here's a listing.
Note the use of four non-breaking spaces after the exclamation
point and before “Hmpf.”
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5
Advanced
Lists
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Build a page that shows the three different types of lists

Use this as a reference: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_lists.asp
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From Lecture
3
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6
horizontal rules
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Make a page with horizontal rules that looks like this:

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7
Image Tags & Centering
Get image here
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Create a page that centers an image with both the <center>
and the <p align="center"> tags:

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8
Wrapping around images
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Create a page that wraps text around images that looks like this:

Hint: the second paragraph puts the images later down the text.
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9
Background Images
Get background image here
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Build a page that looks like this:

Hints:
The bar is made from the thing.gif.
The header uses a <font> tag with attributes.
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10
Link an image
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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.
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11
Linking to an id on another page
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Take the page from exercise 10 and link it to the "server"
id on the lecture_01.htm page of this site.
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