Whats New in Dreamweaver CS4 The Dreamweaver CS4 Interface Setting Up a Site Creating a Web Page Adding Text to Your Web Pages Format text The Property inspector has been split in two to better separate HTML options from CSS You can also create and edit styles as you speci ID: 636151
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Chapter 1: IntroductionSlide2
Contents
What’s New in Dreamweaver CS4?
The Dreamweaver CS4 Interface
Setting Up a Site
Creating a Web Page
Adding Text to Your Web Pages
Format textSlide3
The Property inspector
:
has been split in two to better separate HTML options from CSS. You can also create and edit styles as you specify settings.
Coding Improvements: Dr.CS4 offers many new features to make working in Code view better. JavaScript Programming benefits
What’s New in Dreamweaver
CS4
?Slide4
What’s New in Dreamweaver CS4?Slide5
What’s New in Dreamweaver CS4?
More Spry goodies:
These new features made it easy to add pop-up navigational menus, validate HTML forms, include complex, animated visual effects
You’ll find new form validation tools for making sure a visitor registering on a Web site.Slide6
What’s New in Dreamweaver CS4?
Greater Photoshop integration:
CS4 adds support for Adobe “Smart Objects” so you can maintain a connection between a high-quality Photoshop file and the smaller, lower quality Web version of the image.Slide7
The Dreamweaver CS4 InterfaceSlide8
The Dreamweaver CS4 Interface
The
Insert
Panel: When you first start Dreamweaver, the Insert
panel is
open.If
you ever close it by mistake, you can open it by choosing Window ➝ Insert or pressing Ctrl+F2.Slide9
The Dreamweaver CS4 Interface
The Insert panel
offers seven sets of objects:
Common objectsLayout objectsForm objects.DataSpry.
InContext EditingText objects and Favorites.Slide10
The Dreamweaver CS4 Interface
The Files Panel:
The Files panel is another panel you’ll turn to. It lists all the Web files—Web pages, graphics, Flash movies, that make up your Web site.Slide11
The Dreamweaver CS4 Interface
The Property Inspector:
is a chameleon. It’s aware of what you’re working on in the document window: a table, an image, some text, and displays the appropriate set of properties.Slide12
The Dreamweaver CS4 Interface
The Application Bar:
is new in Dr.CS4. Its main purpose in life is to let you switch between different document viewsSlide13
The Dreamweaver CS4 Interface
Code/Design
View
menuSwitch between the visual Design view and the raw HTMLThe Sites menu
lets you “define” a new site or “manage” the sites.Slide14
The Dreamweaver CS4 Interface
The Workspace switcher
lets you re-organize the program’s layout of windows.Slide15
Setting Up a Site
When you build a new Web site, you must define a site. This is the most important first step when you start using Dreamweaver.
Defining a site lets Dreamweaver know where you store your Web pages on your computer, makes sure Dreamweaver correctly inserts images and adds links to the pages of your siteSlide16
Setting Up a Site
Dreamweaver gives you two methods for defining a site:
The hold-you-by-the-hand site
Definition wizard.The advanced “Get out of my way I know what I’m doing” approach.Slide17
Setting Up a Site
The Site Definition Wizard
Choose Site->New Site to open the Site Definition window, and then select
the SiteThe “Site name” , type a name for your site.Local Site folder: where you can choose a folder on your hard drive that will serve as your local site’s root folder.Slide18
Setting Up a SiteSlide19
Setting Up a Site
Choose Advanced Settings:
Default Images Folder: Select a folder where store images of the website, this folder must be inside the Local site folderSlide20
Setting Up a Site
Web URL:
Type the Web address of your site. This step is also optional.
Click OK to finish the process.Your site’s files appear in the Files panel. Now you’re ready to create Web pages and take advantage of Dreamweaver’s powerful site building tools.Slide21
Creating a Web Page
Create a web page:
After
defining a site, Just choose File->New or press Ctrl+N to open the New Document window.Select Blank Page In the Page type: select HTMLIn the Layout: select NoneClick Create button.Slide22
Creating a Web PageSlide23
Adding Text to Your Web Pages
Adding Special Characters:
On the Insert panel, choose the Text category.
At the end of the Insert panel, select the symbol you wish to insertSlide24
Adding Text to Your Web PagesSlide25
Adding Text to Your Web Pages
Multiple Spaces:
Choose
InsertHTMLSpecial Characters Non-Breaking Space.Press Ctrl + Shift + Space bar (
)Adding a Date to Your Page
Click on Date icon orInsert ➝ DateSlide26
Text Formatting
Paragraph
:
When you press Enter you create a new paragraph, complete with opening and closing <p> tags.Paragraph formatting: Click anywhere inside the block of text, In the Property inspector choose Paragraph, or Choose Format Paragraph Format
Paragraph or Press Ctrl + Shift + PSlide27
Text Formatting
Properties Inspector:
used
for format TextSlide28
Text Formatting
Headlines
:
To turn a paragraph into a headline, click anywhere inside the line, or block, of text and then do one of the following:In the Property inspector, from the Format menu, select one of the heading levels (Heading 1 ->6) Or Choose Format Paragraph Format
Heading1… Heading6Slide29
Text Formatting
Heading function equivalent tag <Hn>
Example: Heading 1
<H1>Slide30
Text Formatting
Paragraph Alignment:
Choose Format ➝ Align ➝ Left, Center, Right, or Justify
Indented Paragraphs:On the Property inspector, click the Blockquote button or Choose Format -> Indent, or Press Ctrl + Alt +]This function <Blockquote>Slide31
Text Formatting
Creating a new bulleted or
numbered
list: In the document window, click where you wish to start a list.In the Property inspector, click the Ordered/Unordered List button.Or Format -> List -> Unordered List or Ordered List.
Type the first list item-> Enter. Repeat until you’ve added all items in the list
.Slide32
Text Formatting
Use menu Format
List
Use List button in properties InspectorSlide33
Text Formatting
Formatting bullets and numbers
Click once inside any list item.
Format ➝ List ➝ Properties to Open the List Properties dialog boxChoose a bullet or numbering styleSlide34
Text Formatting
Nested
:
Using the Property inspector’s indent button lists:Slide35
Text Formatting
Definition List
:
can be used to display items in a dictionary or glossary, or whenever you need to present a term and its definition. Each a list of definitions and terms: Each term and definition should be in its own Paragraph,Highlight the paragraphs that contain the terms and definitions, and then choose Format
➝ List ➝ Definition List.Slide36
Text FormattingSlide37
Text Formatting
Example: Slide38
Text Formatting
Text Styles:
To use these styles, select the text, and then apply a format from the Format
➝ Style menu