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Finally, you can click the Color Picker icon, shown here, to launch the Mac or Windows color-picker dialog box, which lets you choose from millions of possible colors.

Without a specific color setting, Web browsers use default colors for the element in question. For instance, text on a Web page is usually black unless you specify otherwise. Next to the color box in any Dreamweaver dialog box is a blank text field.

If you know your Web colors, then you can type their hex codes into this box, which is sometimes faster and more precise than clicking the rainbow palette. The Palette Options menu is of limited use. It lets you select a different set of very limited rainbow colors for your palette. The first two choices, for example, contain the outdated Web-safe color palette—a limited collection of colors that display accurately on any computer screen. The Web-safe palette made sense back when graphics cards were expensive and dinosaurs ruled the earth.

Today, however, most monitors can show millions of different colors. In a hex code, a Web color is represented by a six-digit code like this: FE Hexadecimal notation is a system computers use for counting. The tells the computer that the following sequence is a series of hexadecimal numbers—in this case, three pairs of them. Hex colors are composed of three pairs of numbers, for example FE is really, FE, 34 and Each pair represents a number for red, green, or blue, which together make up a color.

You sometimes see only 3 numbers like this: F00—this is shorthand and is used when both numbers in a pair are the same. For example, FF can be shortened to just F Browse to the images folder in the Chapter01 folder, and then double-click the graphics file called banner. The Image Tag Accessibility window appears. Fresh out of the box and onto your computer, Dreamweaver has several accessibility preferences automatically turned on. These preferences are aimed at making your Web pages more accessible to people who use alternative devices for viewing Web sites—for example, people with viewing disabilities who require special Web browser software such as a screen reader, which literally reads the contents of a Web page out loud.

In the Alternate Text box, type Chia Vet. Click OK to add the image to the page. The banner picture appears at the top of the page, as shown in Figure The Property inspector changes to reflect the properties of the image. You can also add or edit the alt text in the Property inspector Figure Deselect the image by clicking anywhere in the document window, or by pressing the right arrow key.

When you select an image in the document window, the Property inspector reveals its dimensions. The other image properties are described in Chapter 6. Press Enter to create a new paragraph. Type Directions to Chia Vet Headquarters.

The Property inspector now displays text formatting options. The key called Enter on a Windows keyboard is named Return on most Macintosh keyboards. On the Mac, you can press either Return or Enter. The text you just typed becomes big and bold—the default style for Heading 1. This Format menu offers a number of different paragraph types. You can do so either by dragging carefully across the entire line or by triple-clicking anywhere inside the line. In the color field in the Property inspector, type EC or select a color using the color box, if you prefer , and then hit Enter.

Notice that the field below that menu changes to display h1. Dreamweaver has just created a new CSS style. Click to the right of the heading text to deselect it. Press Enter to create a new paragraph below the headline. To get that text into Dreamweaver, you simply copy it from another document, and then paste it into your Web page. In the Files panel, double-click the file directions. This file is just plain text.

No formatting, just words. Click the directions. You should see a few gold shields sprinkled among the text circled in Figure These shields represent line breaks—spots where text drops to the next line without creating a new paragraph. In this case, you need to remove them, and then create separate paragraphs.

Line breaks circled often crop up when you copy and paste text from other programs into Dreamweaver. Follow the steps on Phase 1: Getting Dreamweaver in Shape to make sure the line breaks are visible in Design view. Click one of the gold shields, and then press Enter. Repeat for any other gold shields in the document window. At this point, the pasted text is just a series of paragraphs. You now have one heading 1 and three heading 2 headlines. In the Property inspector, click the CSS button.

In the field next to the color box, type A00 , and then hit Enter. Notice that the text changes to green. Triple-click one of the green headlines. In the Property inspector, click the I for Italics button. This action italicizes the text and updates the h3 stsyle you created earlier.

Notice that the other heading 3 headline is now italicized. For example, drag from the start of the first paragraph down to the end of the seventh paragraph.

You can also drag up starting from the end of the last paragraph. The paragraphs turn into a single, step-by-step, numbered list. Save the page. A few more design touches remain to be added to the page, but first you should see how the page looks in a real Web browser. Furthermore, much to the eternal woe of Web designers, different Web browsers display pages differently. In some cases, the differences may be subtle for example, text may be slightly larger or smaller.

Check out www. Fortunately, Dreamweaver lets you preview a Web page using any browser you have installed on your computer. When you install Dreamweaver, it detects which browsers are already installed on your computer; a list of those browsers appears in the browsers list in this window. The Add Browser or Select Browser window opens. Dreamweaver can launch a Web browser and load a page in it so you can preview your design. Click the Browse button. Search your hard drive to find a browser you wish to add to this list.

If you wish to change its name for display purposes within Dreamweaver, select it, and then type a new name. Turn on the Primary Browser box. Click OK. You can now preview your pages in this browser with a simple keyboard shortcut: F12 Option-F12 on a Mac. Fortunately, Dreamweaver makes it easy. Macintosh fans: Unfortunately, Apple has assigned the F12 key to the Dashboard program, so it takes two keys to preview the page—Option and F12 however, you can change this setting by creating your own keyboard shortcuts as described on Keyboard Shortcuts.

This keyboard shortcut opens the Web page in your primary browser, letting you preview your work. Do so using your favorite way to switch programs on your computer—by using the Windows taskbar, or the Dock in Mac OS X. Now you just need to add a graphic, format the copyright notice, and provide a little more structure to the appearance of the page.

This step places the cursor at the beginning of the headline. From the Common category on the Insert panel, click the Image button see Figure Browse to the images folder in the Chapter01 folder, and double-click the graphics file called portland.

Again, the Image Tag Accessibility window appears. You need to provide a good description for this image. So when you navigate to the images folder in step 3 above, you might see portland instead of portland. Type Portland skyline , and then press OK. Look at the Property inspector. It displays properties specific to images. The image moves to the right edge of the page and text wraps around its left side.

At the bottom of the page is a copyright notice. CSS provides a more flexible technique—known as a float —to achieve this same effect. A gray line appears above the copyright notice. You can also add a line above a paragraph of text using the CSS border property.

See Adding Borders. Select all the text in the copyright paragraph. You can either triple-click inside the paragraph or drag from the beginning of the paragraph text to the end. Type copyright in the selector field circled in Figure , and then click OK. Notice that the copyright notice text gets smaller. The legal department of Chia Vet headquarters has decided that every page on the site must link to an official corporate statement.

You can choose among many different types of styles. Class styles work a lot like styles in Word processing programs—to use them, you select the text you wish to format, and then apply the style.

To create a link, you just need to tell Dreamweaver which page you want to link to. You have several ways to do this. Using the Property inspector is the easiest. In the Property inspector, click the HTML button; click the folder icon that appears to the right of the link field see Figure Click the Site Root button top of the dialog box in Windows; bottom of dialog box on a Mac , and double click the file named legal.

The Site Root button jumps you right to the folder containing your site. Double-clicking the file inserts the HTML needed to create a link.

If you preview the page in a Web browser, it looks all right…well, not really. The text is kind of hard to read against the blue striped background, the text is too wide if you expand your Web browser on a large monitor, and the photo is hanging way out on the right of the browser. The contents of the page are selected. The Insert Div Tag window opens see Figure To format other tags, you need to create a style in another way. The Insert Div Tag window provides an easy way to divide sections of a Web page into groups of related HTML—like the elements that make up a banner, for example.

So just relax and follow along. This window is the command center for defining the formatting properties such as text color, font, and size for a style. CSS has quite a few properties, which Dreamweaver divides into eight categories. From the left-hand list of categories, select Background. Click the color box that appears to the right of Background-color, and then select a white swatch. This action adds a white background to the box, making sure the text stands out.

Click the Box category, and then, in the width box, type This step makes the box pixels wide—the same width as the banner. This action adds 10 pixels of space inside the box, essentially pushing the text and the graphics away from the edges of the box.

Click OK to complete the style. The Insert Div Tag window reappears, and the name of the style you just created—wrapper—appears in a box labeled ID. Test the link to make sure it works. Resize your browser and watch how the page content centers itself in the middle of the window.

The finished tutorial file should look like this. You may notice that the white space above the banner logo is bigger in browsers other than Internet Explorer.

The reason for this—and how to fix it—is explained on Modifying Fixed Layouts. Much of the work of building Web sites involves using the procedures covered in this tutorial—defining a site, adding links, formatting text, placing graphics, creating styles, and inserting divs.

The next few chapters cover these basics in greater depth and introduce other important tools, tips, and techniques for using Dreamweaver to build great Web pages. Skip to main content. Start your free trial. Chapter 1. Dreamweaver CS4 Guided Tour. The Dreamweaver CS4 Interface. The Document Window. Note You might find two other toolbars, the Standard toolbar and Style Rendering toolbar, useful.

The Insert Panel. Note You might find it disorienting to use the options found in the Text objects category. The Files Panel. The Property Inspector. The Application Bar. Organizing Your Workspace. Floating panels. Tip Drag a panel to either side of a docked column of panels to create a second column. Iconic panes. Workspace Layouts. Tip This feature is also handy if you share your computer with other people. Setting Up a Site. The Site Definition Wizard.

Defining a Site the Fast Way. Creating a Web Page. The Dreamweaver Test Drive. Phase 1: Getting Dreamweaver in Shape. Phase 2: Creating a Web Site. Next, you need to tell Dreamweaver where it can find the tutorial files. Phase 3: Creating and Saving a Web Page. Click Create. The Save As dialog box opens. Note Alternatively, you could type a color, like , into the box beside the palette square. Note Although Dreamweaver uses the term rollover link, in the world of Cascading Style Sheets, this is called a hover link.

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