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March 15, 2005
How to Use Dreamweaver
This week we went over the following topics:
In Dreamweaver:
- Keep DW Open
- Increase the font size in Code View
- Wrap in Code View
- Find & Replace
- Reports and Validation
- Snippets
- Library Items
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- The Quick Insertion: Working without a site
- Site Management: Setting up Remote
- The Site Panel buttons
- The End User License Agreement allows 2 installs
- The Importance of the 7.0.1 Updater
On the Mac:
- Map Exposé to your mouse
- Apple+Tab to switch between open applications
Regarding Design:
- Macromedia Online Seminars and Macrochats
Regarding Code:
- The CSS 2.1 Specification
- Anatomy of a DIV tag
- How to reference an image from off of your site
Assignment Due Friday Morning (3/18) for Comments, Sunday night (3/13) for Credit but no comments:
- This week's site: [Est 3-4 hrs]
- Set up Local and Remote.
- Create a "sandbox" folder.
- Create appropriate folders for site content.
- Protect your media folders with blank index.htm files.
- Create an original site from scratch with the following characteristics:
- Header
- Feature/Content area
- Footer
- Links
- Images
- External CSS stylesheet
- At least three total HTML pages with titles
- Content of your choice. Suggestions:
- Review a movie, book, music, or show.
- Tell a story.
- Tell a joke.
- Teach the class something that you know.
- Hint: Use Snippets, the CSS Styles panel, the Insert menu, and the Properties Inspector.
- Hint: Create content first, then style it.
- Hint: If you are having trouble positioning your content, try using Insert > Table.
- Put the completed site to your server and send the URL to the group list.
- Post links, commentary, and/or a story to your Blogger blog (email me if there are ongoing problems with Blogger). [Est 30 mins - 1hr]
- Submit three (3) questions regarding CSS. [Est 30 mins]
Sites from class:
- Adam
- Ben (Homework)
- Bryan
- Christina
- Heather (Homework)
- Jake (Homework 1, 2)
- Maureen
- Sam (Design site)
- Tak (Homework)
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