Macromedia Dreamweaver MX for Windows and Macintosh:Visual QuickStart GuideDescription |
Appropriate for beginning to intermediate courses in Web Design and Web Authoring using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX. From the popular Visual QuickStart series, this completely updated edition will cover the most important tools and features of Dreamweaver MX that students need to know to design and manage a Web site. The book is excellent for beginning students who don't need or want to learn code, and for students who know a little HTML but need a reference for Dreamweaver's gigantic set of features. The book starts out with Dreamweaver's two core components: site management and basic Web page building. Students are walked through how to set up a local copy of their Web site so that they can use all of Dreamweaver's impressive link and asset management tools. Then they learn to create a basic page from start to finish, title to tables. The rest of the book covers Dreamweaver's page creation features, including easy-to-follow tutorials on more difficult topics as frames, layers, tables, and cascading style sheets.  |
|
Features |
- NEW - The newest features in Dreamweaver, including the new MX interface-Topics include: using design such as tables, frames, text control, and rollover buttons.
- Screen shots, task-based with step-by-step instructions-Rather than lengthy explanations.
- Companion Web site-The book has supporting materials on a companion Web site including shortcuts, setting preferences, and additional tools.
|
|
|
New to this Edition |
- The newest features in Dreamweaver, including the new MX interface-Topics include: using design such as tables, frames, text control, and rollover buttons.
|
|
|
Table of Contents |
Introduction.
1. Getting Started.
2. Setting Up a Local Site.
3. Basic Web Pages.
4. Editing Code.
5. Working with Images.
6. Working with Links.
7. Inserting & Playing Media.
8. Fonts and Characters.
9. Paragraphs and Block Formatting.
10. Creating HTML Styles.
11. Stylin' with Style Sheets.
12. Setting Up Tables.
13. Framing Pages.
14. Layers and Positioning.
15. Filling Out Forms.
16. Behavior Modification.
17. Automating Dreamweaver.
18. Customizing Dreamweaver.
19. Managing Your Web Sites.
Index.
|
|
|
Back Cover |
Even if you've never used Macromedia Dreamweaver before, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide will have you up and running with Macromedia's popular Web authoring program in no time. This completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to Macromedia Dreamweaver uses step-by-step, task-based instructions to explain all of the program's basic tools and how to use them to design a Web site. The book covers the program's existing features as well as its new ones, including its site setup wizard, context-sensitive toolbar, snippets, and enhanced coding tools. Whether you're using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX as a WYSIWYG page-layout tool and never want to write HTML, or if you're a hand coder who prefers using a sophisticated text editor, you'll find Macromedia Dreamweaver MX for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide indispensable. |
|
|
Author |
J. Tarin Towers has contributed as a writer and technical editor to more than a dozen books about computers and the Internet. As an editorial consultant, she has worked with such companies as Netscape Communications, Microsoft, Informix Software, and infoseek. Tarin is a published poet and essayist and teaches an introductory Dreamweaver class at www.barnesandnobleuniversity.com. Her Web site resides at www.tarin.com |
|
|