TEAM LinG Dreamweaver ® 8 FOR DUMmIES ‰ 01_596497 ffirs.qxd 9/16/05 7:34 PM Page i 01_596497 ffirs.qxd 9/16/05 7:34 PM Page ii Janine Warner Dreamweaver ® 8 FOR DUMmIES ‰ 01_596497 ffirs.qxd 9/16/05 7:34 PM Page iii Dreamweaver ® 8 For Dummies ® Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permit- ted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. 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Library of Congress Control Number: 2005932581 ISBN-13: 978-0-7645-9649-0 ISBN-10: 0-7645-9649-7 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1B/QV/RQ/QV/IN 01_596497 ffirs.qxd 9/16/05 7:34 PM Page iv About the Author Janine Warner is a bestselling author, journalist, and Internet consultant. Since 1995, she’s written and coauthored 10 books about the Internet, includ- ing Creating Family Web Sites For Dummies, Dreamweaver For Dummies (now in its sixth edition) and Teach Yourself Dreamweaver Visually. Janine has been featured on technology news specials for ABC, NBC, and ZDTV and has been interviewed on numerous radio programs in the United States and abroad. Her articles and columns have been published in a variety of publications, including The Miami Herald newspaper, Shape Magazine, and the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Point Reyes Light. Janine is a popular speaker at conferences and events throughout the US, and her fluency in Spanish has brought her many invitations to speak in Latin America and Spain. She also serves as a judge for the Arroba de Oro, a series of Internet award contests held throughout Latin America. Through her par- ticipation as a speaker at the award’s events, she helped to create an Internet literacy program for high school students in Central America. Janine has also been a part-time faculty member at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and at the University of Miami where she taught online journalism. She now serves as the Multimedia Program Manager for the Western Knight Center, a joint project of USC and UC Berkeley, funded by the Knight Foundation. From 1998 to 2000, Janine worked fulltime for The Miami Herald, first as its Online Managing Editor and later as Director of New Media, managing a team of designers, programmers, and journalists who produced the online editions of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, as well as Miami.com. She also served as Director of Latin American Operations for CNET Networks, an inter- national technology media company. An award-winning former reporter, she earned a degree in Journalism and Spanish from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and worked for sev- eral years in Northern California as a reporter and editor before becoming interested in the Internet in the mid 90s. To learn more, visit www.JCWarner.com. 01_596497 ffirs.qxd 9/16/05 7:34 PM Page v 01_596497 ffirs.qxd 9/16/05 7:34 PM Page vi Dedication To all those who dare to dream about the possibilities of the Web: May this book make your work easier so you can make those dreams come true. 01_596497 ffirs.qxd 9/16/05 7:34 PM Page vii 01_596497 ffirs.qxd 9/16/05 7:34 PM Page viii Author’s Acknowledgments Let me start by thanking my husband, David LaFontaine, whose patience and support have kept me fed, loved, and entertained, even while working long hours to make seemingly impossible deadlines. Thanks to my wonderful contributor, Susannah Gardner, for gracing these pages with examples of her own beautiful Web design work (see it on the Web at www.hopstudios.com) and for revising Chapters 8 and 9. I recommend both of her latest books, Buzz Marketing with Blogs For Dummies and BitTorrent For Dummies. Thanks to Frank Vera, a skilled programmer who deserves credit for revising the three most complex chapters in this book, Chapters 13, 14, and 15, on dynamic database features in Dreamweaver. Thanks also to Sheila Castelli, who designed many of the Web sites featured in the examples. You can find her work online at www.digitalcottage.com. Thanks to the entire editorial team: Travis Smith for his superb tech editing; Becky Huehls and Rebecca Senninger for catching the details and improving the prose; and Bob Woerner for shepherding this book through the develop- ment and publishing process. Over the years, I’ve thanked many people in my books — family, friends, teachers, and mentors — but I have been graced by so many wonderful people now that no publisher will give me enough pages to thank them all. So let me conclude by thanking everyone I’ve ever known, just so I can go to sleep tonight and know I haven’t forgotten anyone. 01_596497 ffirs.qxd 9/16/05 7:34 PM Page ix [...]... Fireworks 276 Dreamweaver to Fireworks: Optimizing an Image 2 78 Inserting Fireworks HTML 280 Editing Fireworks HTML . 282 Chapter 11: Showing Off with Multimedia 285 Understanding Multimedia Players 286 Working with Macromedia Flash 287 Adding Flash Buttons and Text with Dreamweaver 288 Creating Flash text with Dreamweaver 288 Creating Flash... 380 Part VI: The Part of Tens 383 Chapter 16: Ten Great Sites Designed with Dreamweaver 385 The Growing Digital Family 386 The Hum of World Journalism 387 Listen to the Tracks at UnSound . 387 Friends of Washoe . 388 Alliance Environmental Group, Inc 389 Film Radar 390 Cartooning in Marin 391 A Quiet Retreat 392 Dreamweaver, ... ever before As you’d expect, Dreamweaver 8 offers more sophisticated support for CSS and better rendering within the design environment ߜ Dreamweaver 8 even makes adding high-end features for creating databasedriven Web sites easier These features used to be sold separately in Dreamweaver UltraDev, but since Dreamweaver MX 2004, they’ve been integrated into this one powerful program Now, in version 8, ... designer, Dreamweaver 8 For Dummies is an ideal reference for you because it gets you working quickly with this program, starting with basic Web page design features and progressing to the more advanced options for DHTML and database-driven sites If you’re new to Web design, this book walks you through all you need to know to create a Web site Introduction About This Book I designed Dreamweaver 8 For Dummies. .. Organizing images .79 Handling links 80 Finding and Fixing Broken Links 82 Checking for broken links 83 Fixing broken links 83 Testing Your Work with the Site Reporting Feature 85 Chapter 4: Coordinating Your Design Work 89 Templating Your Type 89 Creating Predesigned Pages with Dreamweaver s Design Files 90 Creating Your Own... 397 Design for Your Audience 397 Add Search Features with Google .3 98 Use PDFs When They’re Warranted 3 98 Let Visitors Enlarge Your Type 3 98 Accessible Designs 399 Create a Consistent Design 399 xix xx Dreamweaver 8 For Dummies Follow the Three Clicks Rule .400 Map It Out 400 Be Prepared for Fast Updates 401... Framing Your Pages 179 Appreciating HTML Frames .179 Understanding How Frames Work 182 Creating a frame in Dreamweaver 182 Saving files in a frameset 186 Setting Targets and Links in Frames 188 Naming frames 188 Setting links to a target frame 190 Comparing target options 193 Changing Frame Properties .193 Changing... 163 Formatting tables with color schemes 165 Formatting multiple columns in a table 166 Sorting Table Data .169 Importing Table Data from Other Programs 170 Using Tables for Spacing and Alignment 171 Using tables to design forms 172 Aligning a navigation bar 174 Using nested tables: Tables within tables 177 xv xvi Dreamweaver 8 For Dummies Chapter... of use of Dreamweaver make it an ideal choice for professional Web designers, as well as for those new to working on the Internet And the new features in version 8 make Dreamweaver better than ever! I’ve been reviewing Web design programs since the first ones hit the market in 1994, and I can assure you that Dreamweaver is the best one I’ve ever worked with But don’t take my word for it — Dreamweaver. .. buttons with Dreamweaver 290 Inserting Flash files 292 Setting options for Flash 293 Working with Video on the Web 296 Comparing popular video formats 297 xvii xviii Dreamweaver 8 For Dummies Working with Audio on the Web 299 Adding Multimedia Files to Your Web Page 302 Embedding a file 302 Linking to a file 303 Setting options for multimedia . Flash 287 Adding Flash Buttons and Text with Dreamweaver 288 Creating Flash text with Dreamweaver 288 Creating Flash buttons with Dreamweaver 290 Inserting Flash files 292 Setting options for Flash. 179 Understanding How Frames Work 182 Creating a frame in Dreamweaver 182 Saving files in a frameset 186 Setting Targets and Links in Frames 188 Naming frames 188 Setting links to a target frame. 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