1. Quick Start to Dreamweaver CS3
If you're new to Dreamweaver, your first question might be, "Where do I start?". The answer, in this book, is "right here." Take advantage of Dreamweaver's expertly designed starter pages to quickly create a standards-based layout, ready for your personalized content. Along the way, you'll explore how to work the Dreamweaver way and build a professional quality Web page.
2. Customizing your Workspace
Although building Web pages involves a fair degree of technical expertise , Web designers are, in their hearts, artists—and all artists work best in their own workspace. Dreamweaver offers a great number of avenues for customizing the design experience and focusing your creative energies.
3. Applying Cascading Style Sheets
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are the technology used by modern Web designers to provide a consistent look-and-feel across a site. Dreamweaver CS3 is a true CSS power tool with the ability to easily display, define, apply and modify styles for a variety of mediums, including: screen, print and handheld devices.
4. Working with Text
Much of the Web designer's world revolves around text: entering, styling, and updating all manner of words. The text tools in Dreamweaver are rich and varied. Enter headings and text with equal ease and quickly shift from one to the other. Add a numbered or bulleted list to stress key points. Bring in a table of data either manually or imported from an external source. Whichever type of text element you choose, Dreamweaver gives voice to your words.
5. Designing with Images
There can be no doubt that the Web is a highly visual medium. Dreamweaver provides a great number of ways to work with graphics, both within the program itself and with other dedicated graphic authoring tools, including Adobe Fireworks CS3 and Adobe Photoshop CS3. Adobe Bridge CS3 ties all the applications together to give you the power to explore your visual dreams.
6. Inserting Links
In some ways the Web is, at its heart, a collection of links. Within any given site, links provide a conduit to quickly navigate from one related topic to another. A link from one site to another can span vast distances with a single click. Links serve other functions as well, bringing up email messages for an interactive response or within an individual page to target a specific page area. Dreamweaver handles all of these link variations with straightforward ease and flexibility.
7. Crafting Page Layouts
The Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) revolution continues to solidify its foothold in the Web designer community. Modern Web design techniques demand a structured, standards-compliant CSS-based layout– and Dreamweaver is happy to deliver. Dreamweaver renders CSS standards impeccably to help Web designers like yourself meet the challenges of building layouts through styles. Even better, Dreamweaver includes additional layout tools, such as rulers and guides, to help you shape your stylistic visions into real-world layouts.
8. Creating Interactive Pages
What brings a Web page to life? Interactivity. Rollover an image to see another larger image appear instantly, click a link to open a new browser window with additional information or load a page to watch a freshly added section glow momentarily to attract your attention. All of these examples of interactivity are easily accomplished with Dreamweaver behaviors—and, better still, quickly tailored to custom-fit your new, lively Web page.
9. Integrating Ajax with Spry
Welcome to the world of Web 2.0. Here, portions of pages are updated with XML data—without reloading the entire page. Here, content on a page is hidden or revealed at the click of a mouse button. Here, sophisticated eff ects highlight a designated area automatically when the page is loaded—and disappear without further interaction. Dreamweaver CS3 brings you Web 2.0 power with a full range of easy-to-use tools to control the Adobe Ajax framework, Spry.
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