Palettes

Starting your first document

Modifying Text

Inserting an Image

Inserting a Table

Inserting a Horizontal Line

Saving your File

Setting up your Site

FTPing Files

Linking

Linking to another document in your site

Linking from one place to another in the same document

Creating an Email Link

Modifying the Colors of your Links and Page

Importing Word® Documents

Image Maps

Converting Layers to a Table

Part II--Creating your Site

Adding more pages to your site

Adding your Resume in .pdf format

III. Creating your Course Page

Putting your PowerPoint Presentaiton on your Website

 

The Dreamweaver Palettes


These palettes are used for inserting various objects into your HTML document. The most common object palette you will use is, clearly, the "Common" palette. This palette contains the icons for inserting images, tables, horizontal line, layers, line-breaks and so on.

The other palettes you will only use in certain situations. They can be found by clicking on the small arrow to the right of the name of the current palette.

This is the most commonly used palette. The options of this palette change depending on what object you are inserting into your document.

For example, if you are inserting text, with this palette you can format your text, including alignment, font face, font size, bold or italic, or indentation. Additionally, you can link your text or create bullets.

If you were inserting a table, you would use this palette to specify the size of your table, the number of rows, the cellpadding, cellspacing, border with, border color, background color and so on.

This palette lets you define styles, much like you would in Microsoft Word®. It is very handy for saving time, but does take a few minutes to set up.

This palette lets you specify certain actions that will happen when a person clicks on a link or when the mouse rolls over a particular area in the document.

Every time you draw a layer, it is recorded in this palette. You can make a layer active by clicking on it in your document, or by clicking on it in the layers palette. After a layer is active, you can move or resize it.

Timelines allow you to add movement and interactivity to your page. This is a great advancement in the development of web pages, but unfortunately, timelines only work on the most advanced browsers.

This palette is basically a shortcut to other palettes. The items on the launcher can also be found in the bottom right-hand corner of the work area.

This is where you actually create your HTML, or web, document.

Some important things to notice are pointed out above.

Additionally, in the lower left-hand corner, you will see the HTML tag <body>. This is a very important area because whatever element is active in your document will show up here in bold. If you would like to make a different element active, you can do so my clicking on it's tag in this part of the work area.