Dreamweaver 4 Virtual Classroom

Learn from an instructor-led, classroom experience at home!

The Virtual Classroom is a revolutionary new way to learn Dreamweaver—one of the most vital applications to Web site designers. This book's casual, non-technical writing style and easy-to-follow, step-by-step approach combine to teach you all the Web page authoring essentials. Pop in the CD-ROM, and follow along as your own on-screen guru explains and demonstrates the techniques discussed in the text. With Dreamweaver 4 Virtual Classroom, you get the best of both worlds—solid hands-on lessons combined with the invaluable experience of watching and listening to an instructor. Work at your own speed and replay Virtual Classroom tutorials as often as needed to deepen your understanding of this potent Web design tool.

• Harness Dreamweaver's broad range of Web design and development capabilities
• Create dynamic Web page content that's cross-browser compatible, including constructing and accommodating layers
• Set interface preferences, including menus and shortcuts, to create the workspace in which you are most comfortable
• You choose—create Web pages using a graphic interface or by writing and editing code
• Manipulate and incorporate all types of images—bitmap and vector—into your Web page
• Format cells, columns, and rows to form tables for housing and constraining Web page information and enabling easier navigation
• Edit Web pages quickly and easily by unveiling the secrets of HTML tags and attributes
• Make your site an informative, helpful destination crafted with an attractive, logical, and functional layout

Contents

• Chapter 1: To Code or Not to Code—HTML and the Wonders of WSISYG.
• Chapter 2: The Dreamweaver Interface.
• Chapter 3: First Things First—Managing Sites & Documents.
• Chapter 4: Its All Concerned - Navigation & Linking.
• Chapter 5: In a Word—Working with Text.
• Chapter 6: Worth a Thousand Words? - Using Images.
• Chapter 7: Working with Tables.
• Chapter 8: Working with Layers.
• Chapter 9: Using Frames.
• Chapter 10: Controlling Effects with Behaviors.
• Chapter 11: Using Templates & Libraries.
• Chapter 12: Building User Forms.
• Chapter 13: Working with Multimedia Elements.
• Chapter 14: Beyond the Basics.
• Appendix A: Macromedia Fireworks.