Dreamweaver - Efficient Text Entry / Insertion

You are free to just type in whatever text you want on your site, but if it is already available somewhere, it wouldnt make much sence to have to type it in maually again, especially if it is a large amount of text.

Dreamweaver provides an intelligent engine for inserting copied text from other sources, such as MS Office, while retaining as much of the formatting as you desire.

In my experience, I found that you have to paste into the "Design View" for Dreamweaver to be able to preserve format for you. If you paste into "code view", for example, something that was originally divided into three paragraphs in MS Wordpad would appear as on huge paragraph after being copied and pasted into Dreamweaver "Code (HTML) View."

Search Engine Results - (manipulate from Dreamweaver)

Page titles are one of the key elements used by search engines to index websites.

Therefore, it is very important to always remember to change Dreamweaver's defualt "Unittiled Document" page title to a phrase that describes your specific web page.

The title of a webpage is displayed in the browser's title bar.



Reference: "Adobe Dreamweaver Classroom in a Book"

Flash - animate off the sceen

if you want an animation to display and then go (jump) off the screen, you can do your animation, and in the end, just make it move "off of the white portion of your scene (canvas?)" (into the grey portion of your flash editing window)

Flash - motion tweens

for a motion tween, you only need one key frame, the rest are all just frames

Dreamweaver - Select a Document View

You will be doing most of your web authoring in the Design Window.

Nevertheless, the Document window still offers you 4 different views:
1. Design View - renders a page in a browser-like context.
2. Code View - displays the page's source code.
3. Code + Design View - displays both code and design views. (this view is activated by pressing the Split button)
4. Live View - renders a page in a live browser within Dreamweaver.

Any changes in one view will also be instantly reflected in other views.

.......notes and excerpts from "Adobe Classroom in a Book"

Dreamweaver - .html or .htm

it is only a matter of personal preference whether you want to use .html  or   .htm  for file extensions. But you should be consistent!

Most websites use the name   index.html   for their homepages.

Dreamweaver - Selecting a CSS Layout

Notes and excerpts from "Adobe Classroom in a Book"

Adobe Dreamweaver cs4 provides 32 CSS layout files, all with different designs. In an exercise, you will select one and then modify it.

These CSS layouts are carefully tested to comply with web standards and to work cross-platform on all major browsers with no additional changes to the layout.


The following types of CSS layouts are provided:
1. popular two- and three- column layouts
2. fixed-width layouts (shown with a lock symbol)
3. percentage- or em-based layouts (shown with a spring symbol to indicate elasticity)
4. layouts that are a mixure of pixels, percentages, and ems