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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
Getting Started ~ 11
System requirements ~ 12
Installing Dreamweaver ~ 12
Learning Dreamweaver ~ 13
Web development workflow ~ 17
Where to start ~ 20
Typographical conventions ~ 22
What’s new in Dreamweaver 4 ~ 22
HTML and Web technologies resources ~ 25
Accessibility and Dreamweaver ~ 26

CHAPTER 1
Dreamweaver Tutorial ~ 27
Take a guided tour of Dreamweaver ~ 28
The Dreamweaver work area ~ 28
Set up the site structure for the tutorial ~ 31
Define a local site ~ 31
Create the site home page ~ 34
Design a page in Layout view ~ 35
Add content to the page ~ 44
Work in Standard view ~ 50
Use the Assets panel ~ 56
Insert Flash objects ~ 60
Create a template. ~ 63
Check your site ~ 68
The next steps ~ 70

CHAPTER 2
Dreamweaver Basics. ~ 71
About the Dreamweaver work area ~ 72
About the different views in Dreamweaver ~ 73
Working with colors ~ 87
About Web-safe colors. ~ 88
Setting preferences ~ 88
Using Dreamweaver with other applications ~ 89
Basic Customizing in Dreamweaver ~ 90

CHAPTER 3
Planning and Setting Up Your Site ~ 95
About site planning and design ~ 95
Using Dreamweaver to set up a new site ~ 102
Editing an existing Web site ~ 104
Editing a remote site ~ 105
Removing a site from your list of sites ~ 106

CHAPTER 4
Site Management and Collaboration ~ 107
About the Site window ~ 108
Viewing and opening files in the Site window ~ 112
About the site map ~ 116
Using the site map. ~ 117
Setting up a remote site ~ 123
About WebDAV and SourceSafe integration ~ 127
Troubleshooting remote site setup ~ 130
Using Check In/Check Out ~ 131
About Design Notes ~ 134
Using reports to improve workflow ~ 141
Getting and putting files ~ 143
Synchronizing the files on your local and remote sites ~ 146

CHAPTER 5
Setting Up a Document ~ 149
Creating, opening, and saving HTML documents ~ 150
Setting document properties ~ 152
Selecting elements in the Document window ~ 154
Using visual guides in the design process ~ 157
Viewing and editing head content ~ 159
About automating tasks. ~ 160

CHAPTER 6
Designing Page Layout. ~ 167
About layout cells and tables ~ 169
Drawing layout cells and tables ~ 170
Moving and resizing layout cells and tables ~ 176
Formatting layout cells and tables ~ 177
Setting layout width ~ 179
Setting Layout View preferences ~ 182

CHAPTER 7
Using Tables to Present Content ~ 183
Inserting a table. ~ 184
Selecting table elements. ~ 187
Formatting tables and cells ~ 189
Resizing tables and cells. ~ 194
Adding and removing rows and columns. ~ 196
Copying and pasting cells ~ 199
Sorting tables ~ 201
Exporting table data ~ 202

CHAPTER 8
Using Frames. ~ 203
Deciding whether to use frames ~ 204
About creating frame-based Web pages ~ 205
Creating frames. ~ 206
Selecting a frame or frameset ~ 208
Saving frame and frameset files ~ 211
About frame and frameset properties. ~ 212
Controlling frame content with links ~ 218
Handling browsers that can’t display frames ~ 219
Using behaviors with frames ~ 220

CHAPTER 9
Managing and Inserting Assets. ~ 221
Using the Assets panel ~ 222
Using favorite assets ~ 229

CHAPTER 10
Inserting and Formatting Text ~ 233
Inserting text and objects ~ 234
Creating lists ~ 237
Setting fonts, styles, color, and alignment ~ 238
Using HTML styles to format text ~ 244
Using CSS style sheets. ~ 248
Converting CSS styles to HTML tags ~ 256
Checking spelling ~ 258
Searching and replacing text, tags, and attributes. ~ 258

CHAPTER 11
Inserting Images. ~ 267
Inserting an image. ~ 268
Setting image properties ~ 269
Creating image maps. ~ 273
Using an external image editor ~ 277
Applying behaviors to images ~ 280

CHAPTER 12
Using Dreamweaver and Fireworks Together ~ 281
Getting Fireworks files into Dreamweaver ~ 282
Launching Fireworks from within Dreamweaver ~ 285
Editing Fireworks files placed in Dreamweaver ~ 288
Optimizing Fireworks images and animations placed in Dreamweaver ~ 290
Updating Fireworks HTML placed in Dreamweaver. ~ 293
Creating Web photo albums ~ 293

CHAPTER 13
Inserting Media ~ 297
Inserting media objects ~ 297
Launching an external editor. ~ 298
Using Design Notes with media objects ~ 300
About Flash content ~ 300
Using Flash button objects ~ 301
Using Flash text objects. ~ 304
Setting Flash object properties. ~ 305
Inserting Flash movies ~ 307
Inserting Generator objects ~ 309
About Shockwave movies ~ 310
Adding sound to a page. ~ 311
Inserting Netscape Navigator plugin content. ~ 313
Inserting an ActiveX control ~ 316
Inserting a Java applet ~ 318
Using parameters. ~ 319
Using behaviors to control media ~ 320

CHAPTER 14
Editing HTML in Dreamweaver ~ 321
Understanding basic HTML tags ~ 322
Inserting comments. ~ 327
Using the Dreamweaver Reference panel ~ 328
About Roundtrip HTML ~ 329
Using the Code view (or Code inspector) ~ 330
Inserting scripts. ~ 335
Opening and editing non-HTML files in Dreamweaver ~ 338
Editing an HTML tag in the Design view. ~ 338
Setting code formatting preferences. ~ 343
Cleaning up HTML source code. ~ 347
Cleaning up Microsoft Word HTML ~ 348
Using external HTML editors ~ 350

CHAPTER 15
Linking and Navigation ~ 353
About document locations and paths ~ 354
Creating links ~ 358
Managing links ~ 366
Creating jump menus ~ 369
Creating navigation bars ~ 371
Attaching behaviors to links ~ 374

CHAPTER 16
Reusing Content with Templates and Libraries. ~ 375
Creating templates ~ 377
Defining a template’s editable regions ~ 381
Creating documents based on templates ~ 388
Updating pages based on a template ~ 391
Exporting and importing XML content ~ 392
Creating, managing, and editing library items ~ 396
Using server-side includes ~ 404

CHAPTER 17
Using Dynamic Layers ~ 407
About layers and HTML code. ~ 408
Creating layers on your page ~ 409
Manipulating layers. ~ 412
Setting layer properties ~ 417
Changing the stacking order of layers ~ 420
Changing layer visibility ~ 420
Using tables and layers for layout ~ 421
Animating your layers ~ 425
Behavior actions for controlling layers timelines ~ 434

CHAPTER 18
Using Behaviors ~ 435
Using the Behaviors panel ~ 436
About events ~ 436
Attaching a behavior ~ 439
About behaviors and text. ~ 441
Attaching a behavior to a timeline ~ 442
Changing a behavior ~ 442
Updating a behavior ~ 443
Creating new actions. ~ 443
Downloading and installing third-party behaviors. ~ 443
Using the behavior actions that come with Dreamweaver ~ 444

CHAPTER 19
Debugging JavaScript Code. ~ 473
Running the debugger. ~ 474
Finding and fixing logical errors ~ 476

CHAPTER 20
Creating Forms ~ 481
About CGI scripts. ~ 482
About form objects ~ 482
Creating a form. ~ 483
About form fields ~ 485
Inserting checkboxes and radio buttons. ~ 491
About lists and menus ~ 493
About form buttons ~ 496
About form design ~ 498
Processing forms ~ 499
Using behaviors with forms ~ 500

CHAPTER 21
Testing and Publishing a Site ~ 501
Checking for browser compatibility ~ 502
Using Behaviors to detect browsers and plugins. ~ 503
Previewing in browsers ~ 504
Checking links in a page or site ~ 506
Checking download time and size ~ 509
Using Reports to test a site ~ 509

CHAPTER 22
Customizing Dreamweaver ~ 513
Changing the default file type ~ 514
Modifying the Objects panel ~ 515
Creating a simple object ~ 516
About customizing Dreamweaver menus. ~ 517
Customizing the appearance of dialog boxes ~ 529
Changing default HTML formatting ~ 530
Working with browser profiles. ~ 532
Extending Dreamweaver: Basics ~ 536
Customizing the interpretation of third-party tags ~ 537

APPENDIX
Keyboard Shortcuts ~ 545
File menu ~ 545
Edit menu. ~ 546
Page views ~ 546
Viewing page elements ~ 547
Code editing ~ 547
Editing text ~ 549
Formatting text ~ 550
Finding and replacing text. ~ 550
Working in tables ~ 551
Working with frames. ~ 551
Working with layers ~ 552
Working with timelines. ~ 552
Working with images ~ 553
Managing hyperlinks. ~ 553
Targeting and previewing in browsers ~ 553
Debugging in browsers ~ 554
Site management and FTP ~ 554
Site map ~ 555
Playing plugins ~ 555
Working with templates ~ 555
Inserting objects ~ 556
History panel ~ 556
Opening and closing panels. ~ 557
Getting help ~ 557
Keyboard Shortcut Matrix. ~ 558
INDEX ~ 563