Macromedia Dreamweaver

Copyright 2002, Ken Abernethy and Tom Allen

This material is designed for the use with the text Exploring the Digital Domain, Second Edition. It is illegal to distribute, modify, or make any other commercial use of this material without the explicit permission of the copyright holders.

In this tutorial, you will learn the basic concepts and techniques needed to create your own Web pages using Macromedia Dreamweaver. We will cover all the features you learned to code in HTML in the Tutorial on HTML Basics. As you will see, Dreamweaver makes creating Web pages a much less tedious and more convenient task when compared with working with "raw" HTML. Nonetheless, a knowledge of HTML is essential for understanding and modifying the documents Dreamweaver (and other HTML authoring software) generate.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Dreamweaver to create pages that:

• format text on your Web pages to appear in bold, italics, superscript, and subscript styles
• make text appear in different sizes and colors
• organize text into several different kinds of lists (like this one, for example)
• create links in your Web pages to other pages -- your own and pages on other Web sites
• put links in your pages to play/view external resources like sound and video files.
• change the background color for your pages or use images to tile the page background
• include images in your pages and organize them with associated text in several different ways
• use images as links to other pages and external resources.
• use tables to gain some control over the appearance of pages and page elements
• create frame-based pages which allow more than one document or page element to be presented concurrently on the users screen
• create client-side image maps that employ "hot spots" on images as links to other pages, anchors, or external resources