Introduction
A Note from Lynda Weinman
About the Author
Our Team
Acknowledgments
How to Use This Book
HTML versus HTM
The Moon's Nest Inn, Again?
Macintosh and Windows Interface Screen Captures
Mac and Windows System Differences
A Note to Windows Users
Making Exercise Files Editable on Windows Systems
Making File Extensions Visible on Windows Systems
Creating New Documents
Dreamweaver System Requirements
What's on the CD-ROM?

1. Background
   
   What Is Dreamweaver?
   Roundtrip HTML
   Do You Need to Learn HTML to Use Dreamweaver?
   HTML Resources
   What Does HTML Do?
   What Does HTML Look Like?
   HTML Deconstructed
   File-Naming Conventions
   File Name Extensions
   Extending Dreamweaver
   What Is DHTML?
   What Is XML?
   What is JavaScript?
2. Interface
   
   A Tour of the Interface
   The Objects Panel
   Types of Objects
   The Property Inspector
   The Launcher and Mini-Launcher
   Customizing the Launcher
   Launcher Shortcuts
   The Toolbar
   The Document Window
   Document Window Views
   Preferences
   External Editors
   Preset Window Sizes
   Shortcut Keys
3. Site Control
   
   What is a Local Root Folder?
   Exercise 1: Defining a Site
   Exercise 2: Relative and Absolute Links
   Exercise 3: File and Folder Management
   Exercise 4: Understanding Path Structure
   Different Path Notations
   Exercise 5: Creating a Site Map
   Exercise 6: Creating a Site from Nothing
4. Basics
   
   Exercise 1: Defining the Site
   Exercise 2: Creating and Saving a Document
   File Names Versus Titles
   The Significance of index.html
   Exercise 3: Inserting Images
   Exercise 4: Inserting Text
   Exercise 5: Centering Images and Text
   Exercise 6: Modifying Page Properties
   The Page Properties Window
   The Dreamweaver Color Pickers
   Exercise 7: Creating Links with Images and Text
   Exercise 8: META Tags
   Exercise 9: Background Images
   Exercise 10: Looking at the HTML
5. Linking
   
   Exercise 1: Linking with Point to File
   Exercise 2: Linking to New Source Files
   Exercise 3: Browse for File and the Link History
   Exercise 4: Creating Email Links
   Exercise 5: Named Anchors
   Exercise 6: Image Maps
   Exercise 7: Linking to Files
6. Typography
   
   A Word about FONT FACE
   Exercise 1: Creating and Formatting HTML Text
   Exercise 2: Font Lists
   Exercise 3: Aligning Text
   Aligning Text and Images
   Exercise 4: Ordered, Unordered, and Definition Lists
   Exercise 5: Color Schemes
   Exercise 6: Formatting Text in Tables
   Exercise 7: Repeat Last Action
   Exercise 8: Applying HTML Styles
   HTML Styles Options
   Exercise 9: Character Entities
   Macintosh and Windows Character Entities
   What is Flash Text?
   Exercise 10: Creating Flash Text
7. Tables
   
   What Is a Table?
   Exercise 1: Changing the Border of a Table
   Exercise 2: Sorting the Table
   The Sort Table Dialog Box
   Exercise 3: Changing the Color Scheme
   Exercise 4: Creating and Modifying a Table
   Exercise 5: Aligning Images and Text with Tables
   Exercise 6: Percentage-Based Table Alignment
   Exercise 7: Seamless Image Assembly
   Exercise 8: Combining Pixels and Percentages
   Exercise 9: Inserting Tab-Delimited Data
   Insert Tabular Data Settings
   Exercise 10: Nested Tables and Borders
   Exercise 11: Rounded Corner Tables
8. Layout
   
   What are Tracing Images, Layers and Tables?
   Exercise 1: Applying a Tracing Image
   Tracing Images, Background Colors, and Images
   Exercise 2: Adding Layers
   Exercise 3: Converting Layers to Tables
   Convert Layers to Table Options
   Exercise 4: Converting Tables to Layers
   Exercise 5: Using Margin Tags
   What is the Layout View?
   Exercise 6: Layout Tables and Layout Cells
9. Frames
   
   What Are Frames?
   Frames: A Love-or-Hate Proposition
   Exercise 1: Saving Your First Frameset
   Different Ways to Save Frames
   Exercise 2: Coloring Frames
   Exercise 3: Links and Targets
   Target Names
   Exercise 4: Adding a Background Image
   Exercise 5: Seamless Background Across Two Frames
   Exercise 6: Frames Objects Panel
10. Rollovers
    
    Rollover Rules
    Exercise 1: Creating a Simple Rollover
    Exercise 2: Animated Rollovers!
    Exercise 3: Creating Pointer Rollovers
    Exercise 4: Creating Multiple-Event Rollovers
    What are Flash Buttons?
    Exercise 5: Creating Flash Buttons
    Exercise 6: Inserting a Navigation Bar Rollover
    Different Rollover States
    Exercise 7: Inserting a Simple Rollover from Fireworks
11. Cascading Style Sheets
    
    Style Sheets, A Hard Decision?
    The Cascading Part of Style Sheets
    Types of Style Sheets
    Exercise 1: Redefining HTML with Style Sheets
    Exercise 2: Defining a Custom Class
    Exercise 3: Using Selectors to Group Tags
    Exercise 4: Affecting Links with Selectors
    Redefine HTML, Custom Class, or Selector?
    Exercise 5: Linking to a Style Sheet
    Exercise 6: Converting from CSS to HTML
12. HTML
    
    Exercise 1: The Code View
    Exercise 2: Editing in the Code View
    Exercise 3: Using the Quick Tag Editor
    Exercise 4: Cleaning Up HTML
    Options for Cleaning Up HTML
    Exercise 5: Cleaning Up Word HTML
13. Forms
    
    The Form Objects Panel
    Form Objects
    Exercise 1: Working with Form Objects
    Exercise 2: Creating a Form
    Exercise 3: Creating a Jump Menu
14. Behaviors
    
    Exercise 1: Creating a Check Browser Behavior
    Exercise 2: Creating a Set Text of Status Bar Behavior
    Exercise 3: Creating a Set Text of Text Field Behavior
    Exercise 4: Opening a New Browser Window
    Exercise 5: Validating Forms with Behaviors
    The Macromedia Exchange Dreamweaver
    Exercise 6: Installing the Macromedia Extension Manager
    Exercise 7: Inserting ImageReady HTML
    Exercise 8: Downloading from Macromedia Exchange
15. DHTML
    
    Exercise 1: Dragging Layers
    Exercise 2: Using the Timeline for Animation
    Exercise 3: Playing, Stopping, and Resetting the Timeline
    Exercise 4: Creating a DHTML Pop-Up Menu
16. Automation
    
    What Is the History Panel?
    Exercise 1: Using the History Panel for Undo/Redo
    Exercise 2: Copying and Pasting History
    Exercise 3: Creating Custom Objects
    Getting More Commands
    What Is a Web Photo Album?
    Exercise 4: Creating a Web Photo Album
    Exercise 5: Optimizing Images in Fireworks
17. Templates/Libraries
    
    Exercise 1: Templates in Action
    Exercise 2: Creating a New Template
    Exercise 3: Modifying a Template
    Exercise 4: Library Items in Action
    Exercise 5: Creating a Library Item
    Exercise 6: Modifying a Library Item
18. Plug-Ins
    
    Plug-Ins Require Viewer Participation
    Exercise 1: Linking to Sounds
    Different Sound Formats
    Exercise 2: Embedding Sounds
    Exercise 3: Inserting Flash Content
    Exercise 4: Inserting Director (Shockwave) Content
    What Is QuickTime?
    Exercise 5: Inserting a QuickTime Movie
19. Getting It Online
    
    Free Web Hosting with GeoCities
    Exercise 1: Signing Up with GeoCities
    Exercise 2: Setting the FTP Preferences
    What Is FTP?
    Exercise 3: Putting Files onto the Web Server
    Exercise 4: Getting Site Reports
    The Reports Dialog Box

Index