Now we need to look at how we can setup and organize our website within Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver gives us the ability to organize websites into a Site. This allows us to maintain and organize our files. To set it up, it ask us to identify several settings. The Local Root Folder Dreamweaver requires you to…
Setting up your workspace As Dreamweaver has changed over the years, different things will change about the user interface. However, most things you will find have stayed the same, and if you have an older version, you don’t have to upgrade. When you run Dreamweaver, you can pick from several different types of layouts for…
What is Dreamweaver – semi WYSIWYG HTML editor. Key thing to note: there are 3 elements which make up a webpage. Structure, Presentation, and Behavior (Interaction) HTML vs. XHTML vs. HTML5 You may have heard about different types of HTML standards. HTML has been around the longest, and was up to version 4.x. XHTML has…
Validation, when dealing with form data, is the process of making sure you get the right information from your user, to send to your form processor. Forms need to be validated so the information to be processed on the server, can be correctly processed. If the form processor (the file that the action attribute in…
Rollovers offer a nice and easy way to stylize your website, and provide some basic interaction. But rollovers are for more than just making things look nice. They (should – if done right) also give feedback to the user, to let them know that what their mouse is over will take them somewhere. It should…
There are several ways to perform an image rollover. They all involve JavaScript or CSS. However, Dreamweaver has a built in method that will write the JavaScript for you, so you don’t have to learn that aspect. This method is shown in this video tutorial. Creating Image Rollovers in Dreamweaver was originally found on Access…
One of the advantages of Dreamweaver, is that if you update a template file – you can update the web pages that were created from that file. You will have to have a Dreamweaver Template created already. If you do – you can update the pages in your site. This video tutorial will show you…
One of Dreamweaver’s most powerful tools is it’s ability to create pages based off of a (Dreamweaver) Template. This keeps the pages on a website looking the same. Additionally, if you change a template, the pages based off of that Template get updated. You will need a Dreamweaver Site defined to make use of the…
