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Contents
Getting Started
- System requirements
- Installing Dreamweaver
- Learning Dreamweaver
- Web development workflow
- Where to start
- Typographical conventions
- What’s new in Dreamweaver 4
- HTML and Web technologies resources
- Accessibility and Dreamweaver
Dreamweaver Tutorial
- Take a guided tour of Dreamweaver
- The Dreamweaver work area
- Set up the site structure for the tutorial
- Define a local site
- Create the site home page
  - Save your document
  - Define the document page title
- Design a page in Layout view
- Add content to the page
- Work in Standard view
- Use the Assets panel
- Insert Flash objects
- Create a template
- Check your site
  - Create a Design Note
  - Sitewide reports
- The next steps
Dreamweaver Basics
- About the Dreamweaver work area
- About the different views in Dreamweaver
- Working with colors
- About Web-safe colors
- Setting preferences
  - Setting General preferences
  - Setting Fonts/Encoding preferences
- Using Dreamweaver with other applications
- Basic Customizing in Dreamweaver
  - Using the Keyboard Shortcut Editor
  - Adding extensions to Dreamweaver
Planning and Setting Up Your Site
- About site planning and design
- Using Dreamweaver to set up a new site
- Editing an existing Web site
- Editing a remote site
- Removing a site from your list of sites
Site Management and Collaboration
- About the Site window
  - Using Site window controls
  - Setting Site preferences
- Viewing and opening files in the Sitewindow
- About the site map
- Using the site map
- Setting up a remote site
  - Associating a remote server with a local site
  - Determining the remote site’s host directory (FTP only)
- About WebDAV and SourceSafe integration
  - Using Dreamweaver with the WebDAV protocol
  - Using Dreamweaver with Visual SourceSafe
- Troubleshooting remote site setup
- Using Check In/Check Out
  - Setting up the Check In/Check Out system
  - Checking in and checking out files on a remote server
- About Design Notes
- Using reports to improve workflow
- Getting and putting files
  - Getting files from a remote server
  - Putting files onto a remote server
- Synchronizing the files on your local and remote sites
Setting Up a Document
- Creating, opening, and saving HTMLdocuments
- Setting document properties
- Selecting elements in the Documentwindow
  - About invisible elements
  - Setting Invisible Elements preferences
- Using visual guides in the design process
  - Displaying rulers
  - Using a tracing image
- Viewing and editing head content
- About automating tasks
Designing Page Layout
- About layout cells and tables
- Drawing layout cells and tables
- Moving and resizing layout cells and tables
- Formatting layout cells and tables
  - Formatting a layout cell
  - Formatting layout tables
- Setting layout width
  - Using spacer images
- Setting Layout View preferences
Using Tables to Present Content
- Inserting a table
  - Adding content to a table cell
  - Importing table data
- Selecting table elements
- Formatting tables and cells
- Resizing tables and cells
  - Changing column widths
  - Resetting width and height
- Adding and removing rows and columns
  - Nesting tables
  - Splitting and merging cells
- Copying and pasting cells
- Sorting tables
- Exporting table data
Using Frames
- Deciding whether to use frames
- About creating frame-based Web pages
- Creating frames
- Selecting a frame or frameset
  - Using the Frames panel
  - Selecting a frame or frameset in the Document window
- Saving frame and frameset files
- About frame and frameset properties
- Controlling frame content with links
- Handling browsers that can’t display frames
- Using behaviors with frames
Managing and Inserting Assets
- Using the Assets panel
- Using favorite assets
Inserting and Formatting Text
- Inserting text and objects
- Creating lists
- Setting fonts, styles, color, and alignment
- Using HTML styles to format text
  - Using HTML styles
- Using CSS style sheets
- Converting CSS styles to HTML tags
  - CSS to HTML markup conversion table
- Checking spelling
  - Running a spell check using the Check Spelling dialog box
- Searching and replacing text, tags, andattributes
Inserting Images
- Inserting an image
- Setting image properties
  - Aligning elements
  - Resizing images and other elements
- Creating image maps
- Using an external image editor
  - Setting external image editor preferences
  - Launching an external image editor
- Applying behaviors to images
Using Dreamweaver and FireworksTogether
- Getting Fireworks files into Dreamweaver
- Launching Fireworks from within Dreamweaver
- Editing Fireworks files placed in Dreamweaver
  - Editing Fireworks images
  - Editing Fireworks tables
- Optimizing Fireworks images and animations placed in Dreamweaver
  - Resizing placed Fireworks images
  - Editing placed Fireworks animations
- Updating Fireworks HTML placed in Dreamweaver
- Creating Web photo albums
Inserting Media
- Inserting media objects
- Launching an external editor
- Using Design Notes with media objects
- About Flash content
- Using Flash button objects
- Using Flash text objects
- Setting Flash object properties
  - Creating new button templates
- Inserting Flash movies
  - Setting Flash movie properties
- Inserting Generator objects
- About Shockwave movies
  - Inserting Shockwave movies
  - Setting Shockwave properties
- Adding sound to a page
- Inserting Netscape Navigator plugin content
- Inserting an ActiveX control
  - Setting ActiveX properties
- Inserting a Java applet
  - Setting Java applet properties
- Using parameters
- Using behaviors to control media
Editing HTML in Dreamweaver
- Understanding basic HTML tags
- Inserting comments
- Using the Dreamweaver Reference panel
- About Roundtrip HTML
- Using the Code view (or Code inspector)
- Inserting scripts
  - Editing a script
  - Viewing script functions
- Opening and editing non-HTML files in Dreamweaver
- Editing an HTML tag in the Design view
- Setting code formatting preferences
- Cleaning up HTML source code
  - Formatting the HTML source code in existing documents
- Cleaning up Microsoft Word HTML
- Using external HTML editors
Linking and Navigation
- About document locations and paths
- Creating links
- Managing links
  - Creating and modifying links in the site map
  - Changing a link sitewide
- Creating jump menus
- Creating navigation bars
  - Inserting a navigation bar
  - Modifying a navigation bar
- Attaching behaviors to links
Reusing Content with Templates andLibraries
- Creating templates
  - Setting template page properties
  - About links in templates
- Defining a template’s editable regions
- Creating documents based on templates
  - Finding a document’s editable regions
  - Detaching a document from a template
- Updating pages based on a template
- Exporting and importing XML content
  - About XML
  - Using XML tag notations
- Creating, managing, and editing libraryitems
- Using server-side includes
  - Editing the contents of a server-side include
Using Dynamic Layers
- About layers and HTML code
- Creating layers on your page
- Manipulating layers
- Setting layer properties
  - Setting properties for multiple layers
- Changing the stacking order of layers
- Changing layer visibility
- Using tables and layers for layout
- Animating your layers
- Behavior actions for controlling layerstimelines
Using Behaviors
- Using the Behaviors panel
- About events
- Attaching a behavior
- About behaviors and text
- Attaching a behavior to a timeline
- Changing a behavior
- Updating a behavior
- Creating new actions
- Downloading and installing thirdpartybehaviors
- Using the behavior actions that come withDreamweaver
Debugging JavaScript Code
- Running the debugger
  - Finding syntax errors
- Finding and fixing logical errors
Creating Forms
- About CGI scripts
- About form objects
- Creating a form
- About form fields
- Inserting checkboxes and radio buttons
  - Inserting a checkbox
  - Inserting a radio button
- About lists and menus
  - Creating a scrolling list
  - Creating a pop-up menu
- About form buttons
  - Creating text form buttons
  - Creating a graphical Submit button
- About form design
  - Adding multiple objects to a form
  - Inserting tables in forms
- Processing forms
- Using behaviors with forms
Testing and Publishing a Site
- Checking for browser compatibility
- Using Behaviors to detect browsers andplugins
- Previewing in browsers
  - Setting Preview in Browser preferences
  - Testing links by previewing in a browser
- Checking links in a page or site
  - Fixing broken links
  - Opening linked documents in Dreamweaver
- Checking download time and size
- Using Reports to test a site
  - Creating reports
Customizing Dreamweaver
- Changing the default file type
- Modifying the Objects panel
- Creating a simple object
- About customizing Dreamweaver menus
- Customizing the appearance of dialogboxes
- Changing default HTML formatting
- Working with browser profiles
  - About browser-profile formatting
  - Creating and editing a browser profile
- Extending Dreamweaver: Basics
  - About JavaScript
  - Editing Dreamweaver commands
- Customizing the interpretation of thirdparty tags
Keyboard Shortcuts
- File menu
- Edit menu
- Page views
- Viewing page elements
- Code editing
- Editing text
- Formatting text
- Finding and replacing text
- Working in tables
- Working with frames
- Working with layers
- Working with timelines
- Working with images
- Managing hyperlinks
- Targeting and previewing in browsers
- Debugging in browsers
- Site management and FTP
- Site map
- Playing plugins
- Working with templates
- Inserting objects
- History panel
- Opening and closing panels
- Getting help
- Keyboard Shortcut Matrix
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