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Revealed
DEVELOPING A
WEB PAGE
Chapter Lessons
Create head content and set page
properties
Create, import, and format text
Add links to Web pages
Use the History panel and edit code
Modify and test Web pages
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Understanding Page Layout
Use white space effectively
Limit multimedia elements
Keep it simple
Use an intuitive navigation structure
Apply a consistent theme
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Create Head Content
A Web page is composed of two
sections:
– Head
• Includes the page title and meta tags
which are not visible to the Web browser
– Body
• Contains text, graphics, and links
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Create Head Content
Title
– Browser title bar
Keywords
– Search
Description
– Search results
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Web Page Properties
Background color
Font color
Link colors (unvisited, visited)
– Default:
• Unvisited  blue
• Visited  purple
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Web-Safe Colors
Two palettes
– Color Cubes
– Continuous Tone
216 colors
FIGURE 1
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Color picker showing color palettes
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FIGURE 2
Viewing the head content
Head content
section
Title text box on
Document toolbar
Title icon
Meta icon
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FIGURE 7
Head content displayed in Code view
Opening
HTML tag
Head tag
Description
Keyword
tags
Description tags
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Background
color box
Strikethrough
button
White
Hexadecimal
number for
white
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Page Properties dialog box
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Create, Import and
Format Text
To add text to a Dreamweaver page
– Type in Dreamweaver
– Copy/paste
[Ctrl][C] and [Ctrl][V] (Windows)
[C] and [V] (Macintosh)
– Import Word document
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Web Fonts
Browsers use visitor’s fonts
Font combinations
Serif and sans-serif
k K kK
Graphic text for unusual fonts
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FIGURE 10
Formatting the address on The Striped Umbrella home page
Selected
address text
Font list
arrow
Size list
arrow
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Italic button
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Changing Font Sizes
Default base font: 3
Select font in Property inspector
– Choose between 1 and 7
– Change font size relative to the default
base size
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Formatting Paragraphs
Format
– As text
– As different sizes of headings
Headings
– Heading 1 is the largest
– Heading 6 is the smallest
– <h1>This is a big heading</h1>
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Using HTML Tags or Using
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
– Standard practice to handle formatting
and placement of objects
More on this later…
Disable this preference temporarily
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Web Filenames
Do not use
– Spaces
– Special characters
– Punctuation
– Uppercase letters
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Importing Microsoft Office
Documents
File  Import  Word Document
Select file to be imported into
Dreamweaver
Commands  Clean Up Word HTML
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Settings
Clean up HTML
from list arrow
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Clean Up Word HTML dialog box
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Add Links to Web Pages
Links
FIGURE 14
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Coca-Cola Web site
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Link Properties
Link names should be informative
Point of contact – mailto: link
Two types
– Hypertext
– Graphic
Formatting properties should be
consistent
Address or path: relative or absolute
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Broken Links
Typos
Pages move
Sites move
Sites expire
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Navigation Bars
Contain links to the main pages
Usually located at top of side of page
Backbone of the site’s navigation
structure
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FIGURE 15
Viewing the navigation bar
Navigation
bar
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FIGURE 17
Selecting the Home link
Selected
text
Browse for
file icon
Link text box
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E-mail Link (mailto:)
Text for e-mail link
on the page
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Email Link dialog box
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Collapse to show only
local or remote site button
E-mail link
Four pages
linked
to home page
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The Striped Umbrella site map
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Use the History panel
History panel properties:
– Each task is called a step
– 50 steps
– Preferences adds more
– Be careful…
• Increasing steps uses memory
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History Panel Functions
Undo
Redo
Replay
FIGURE 23
The History panel
Click in the gray bar
next to a step to undo
to that step
Slider
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FIGURE 28
Viewing the View Options menu in the Code Inspector
View options
list arrow
Code for
horizontal rule
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View options
menu
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FIGURE 30
Viewing the Reference panel
Information
on HR tag
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FIGURE 31
Insert Date dialog box
Date
formats
Update automatically
on save check box
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FIGURE 32
Viewing the date object in Code view
Code for
date object
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Modify and Test Web Pages
Proofread
Choose window size
Verify links
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Window screen sizes
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Default Window Screen
Sizes
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Testing Pages
Monitors
– Size and resolution
Platforms
– UNIX, Mac, PC
Browsers
– Explorer, Netscape, Firefox
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“Under Construction”
Don’t do it!
Only causes frustration to the end
user
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Chapter 2 Tasks
Create head content and set page
properties
Create, import, and format text
Add links to Web pages
Use the History panel and edit code
Modify and test Web pages
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