Dreamweaver 3
provides many tools for working with text and images.
Dreamweaver has tools that help you format text quickly and consistently.
You can use Cascading Style Sheets to define consistent formatting attributes for page elements such as text and tables.
Images make web pages visually stimulating and more exciting than pages that contain only text.
You can add horizontal rules to help organize a page.
If you want to see more of your web page in the Document window, you can collapse the Property inspector.
To add a rule, you should use the New CSS Rule dialog box to name the rule and specify whether to add it to a new or existing style sheet.
When you make a change to a rule, all page elements formatted with that rule are automatically updated.
With CSS styles, you can make hundreds of formatting changes in a few minutes.
The Toggle Displaying of CSS Styles button can be used to see how your styles are affecting your page.
The Style Rendering toolbar allows you to render your page as different media types, such as print, TV, or handheld.
When you add graphics to a web page, it’s important to choose the appropriate graphic file format.
Files saved with the PNG format can display many colors and use various degrees of transparency.
The PNG format is free to use.
Sans-serif fonts are block-style characters that are often used for headings and subheadings.
The three primary graphic file formats used in web pages are GIF, JPEG and PNG.
Though limited in the number of colors they can represent, GIF files have the ability to show transparent areas.
JPEG images often contain many shades of the same color; photographs are often saved in this format.
Positioning an image is referred to as aligning an image.
IThe Assets panel contains nine category buttons that you use to view your assets by category.
To delete an asset from the Favorites list, select the asset you want to delete, then press [Delete] or the Remove from Favorites button on the Assets panel.
Alternate text is descriptive text that appears in place of an image while the image is downloading or when the mouse pointer is placed over it.
The use of alternate text is the first checkpoint listed in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) list of Priority 1 accessibility checkpoints.
A(n) Non-web-safe colors are colors that may not be displayed uniformly across computer platforms.
You can use the
In Windows, sometimes it’s necessary to press [Ctrl] (Win) while you click the Refresh Site List button.
To recreate the site cache, you should click Site on the Application bar, point to Advanced, then click Recreate Site Cache.
To open the Page Properties dialog box you should click Modify on the Application bar, then click Page Properties.
The <body></body> tags define the beginning and end of the body section of a web page.
Adobe Bridge is an easy way to view files outside the website before bringing them into the website.
A good rule of thumb is to limit each website to no more than three font variations.
The term graphics is used to refer to the appearance of most non-text items on a web page such as photographs, logos, navigation bars, Flash animation, graphs, background images, and drawings.
Each image on a web page takes a specific number of seconds to download, depending on the size of the file. Files are measured in kilobytes.
If you need to resize an image to reduce the file size, use an external image editorinstead of resizing it in Dreamweaver.
Dreamweaver includes the ability to copy and paste a Photoshop PSD file directly from Photoshop into Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver will prompt you to ____ the image by choosing a file format and settings for the web.
Once you set the Accessibility preferences in Dreamweaver, such as the alternate text option, they will be in effect for all websites that you develop.
Use the [Ctrl][B] shortcut to Bold.
Use the shortcut [Ctrl][`] to switch view.
Use the [F5] shortcut to Refresh.
Background images are image files used in place of background colors.
Removing an image from a web page does not remove it from the assets folder in the local root folder of the website.
Items in unordered lists are usually preceded by a(n) bullet, or a small raised dot or similar icon.
Unordered lists that contain bullets are sometimes called bulleted lists.
Definition lists are often used with terms and definitions, such as in a dictionary or glossary.
Internal or Embedded styles are saved as part of the head content of an individual web page.
CSS style sheets contain styles, or rules, which are formatting attributes that can be applied to page elements.
External style sheets are the preferred method for creating and using styles.
The selector is the name of the tag to which the style declarations have been assigned.
The declaration consists of the property and the value, as the example figure above shows.
You can click the Edit Rule button in the CSS Styles panel to open the CSS Rule Definition for the dialog box of the currently selected class.
If you position the insertion point in text that has a CSS rule applied to it, that rule is displayed in the Targeted Rule text box on the Property inspector
Click the Click indicators to view the Code Navigator icon, as shown in the figure above.
Arial and Helvetica are sans-serif fonts.
The Toggle Displaying of CSS Styles button appears on the Style Rendering toolbar.
GIF stands for Graphics.
JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group.
PNG stands for Portable Network Graphic.
When you add a graphic to a website, it is automatically added to the Assets panel.
To resize the Assets panel, you should undock the files tab group and drag a side or corner of the panel border..
After you place an image on a web page, you have several options for enhancing it, or improving its appearance.
Borders are frames that surround an image.
Horizontal and vertical spaceis blank space above, below, and on the sides of an image that separates the image from text or other elements on the page.
Spacing around web page objects can be created by using spacer images, or clear images that act as placeholders.
Alternate text can be “read” by a(n) screen reader, a device used by persons with visual impairments to convert written text on a computer monitor to spoken words.
The Priority one checkpoints of the W3C dictate the most basic level of accessibility standards to be used by web developers today.
A(n) class style can be used to format any page element.
A(n) HTML Style is used to redefine an HTML tag.
Some people consider serif fonts easier to read in printed material, because the extra strokes lead your eye from one character to the next.
Assets that you expect to use repeatedly while you work on a site are designated as favorites.
You use the Align buttons to center, left-align, or right-align an element without regard to how the element is aligned in relation to other elements.
Adobe Bridge is divided into several panels, such as Folders, Content, Preview, Metadata, and Keyboards.
provides many tools for working with text and images.
Dreamweaver has tools that help you format text quickly and consistently.
You can use Cascading Style Sheets to define consistent formatting attributes for page elements such as text and tables.
Images make web pages visually stimulating and more exciting than pages that contain only text.
You can add horizontal rules to help organize a page.
If you want to see more of your web page in the Document window, you can collapse the Property inspector.
To add a rule, you should use the New CSS Rule dialog box to name the rule and specify whether to add it to a new or existing style sheet.
When you make a change to a rule, all page elements formatted with that rule are automatically updated.
With CSS styles, you can make hundreds of formatting changes in a few minutes.
The Toggle Displaying of CSS Styles button can be used to see how your styles are affecting your page.
The Style Rendering toolbar allows you to render your page as different media types, such as print, TV, or handheld.
When you add graphics to a web page, it’s important to choose the appropriate graphic file format.
Files saved with the PNG format can display many colors and use various degrees of transparency.
The PNG format is free to use.
Sans-serif fonts are block-style characters that are often used for headings and subheadings.
The three primary graphic file formats used in web pages are GIF, JPEG and PNG.
Though limited in the number of colors they can represent, GIF files have the ability to show transparent areas.
JPEG images often contain many shades of the same color; photographs are often saved in this format.
Positioning an image is referred to as aligning an image.
IThe Assets panel contains nine category buttons that you use to view your assets by category.
To delete an asset from the Favorites list, select the asset you want to delete, then press [Delete] or the Remove from Favorites button on the Assets panel.
Alternate text is descriptive text that appears in place of an image while the image is downloading or when the mouse pointer is placed over it.
The use of alternate text is the first checkpoint listed in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) list of Priority 1 accessibility checkpoints.
A(n) Non-web-safe colors are colors that may not be displayed uniformly across computer platforms.
You can use the
In Windows, sometimes it’s necessary to press [Ctrl] (Win) while you click the Refresh Site List button.
To recreate the site cache, you should click Site on the Application bar, point to Advanced, then click Recreate Site Cache.
To open the Page Properties dialog box you should click Modify on the Application bar, then click Page Properties.
The <body></body> tags define the beginning and end of the body section of a web page.
Adobe Bridge is an easy way to view files outside the website before bringing them into the website.
A good rule of thumb is to limit each website to no more than three font variations.
The term graphics is used to refer to the appearance of most non-text items on a web page such as photographs, logos, navigation bars, Flash animation, graphs, background images, and drawings.
Each image on a web page takes a specific number of seconds to download, depending on the size of the file. Files are measured in kilobytes.
If you need to resize an image to reduce the file size, use an external image editorinstead of resizing it in Dreamweaver.
Dreamweaver includes the ability to copy and paste a Photoshop PSD file directly from Photoshop into Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver will prompt you to ____ the image by choosing a file format and settings for the web.
Once you set the Accessibility preferences in Dreamweaver, such as the alternate text option, they will be in effect for all websites that you develop.
Use the [Ctrl][B] shortcut to Bold.
Use the shortcut [Ctrl][`] to switch view.
Use the [F5] shortcut to Refresh.
Background images are image files used in place of background colors.
Removing an image from a web page does not remove it from the assets folder in the local root folder of the website.
Items in unordered lists are usually preceded by a(n) bullet, or a small raised dot or similar icon.
Unordered lists that contain bullets are sometimes called bulleted lists.
Definition lists are often used with terms and definitions, such as in a dictionary or glossary.
Internal or Embedded styles are saved as part of the head content of an individual web page.
CSS style sheets contain styles, or rules, which are formatting attributes that can be applied to page elements.
External style sheets are the preferred method for creating and using styles.
The selector is the name of the tag to which the style declarations have been assigned.
The declaration consists of the property and the value, as the example figure above shows.
You can click the Edit Rule button in the CSS Styles panel to open the CSS Rule Definition for the dialog box of the currently selected class.
If you position the insertion point in text that has a CSS rule applied to it, that rule is displayed in the Targeted Rule text box on the Property inspector
Click the Click indicators to view the Code Navigator icon, as shown in the figure above.
Arial and Helvetica are sans-serif fonts.
The Toggle Displaying of CSS Styles button appears on the Style Rendering toolbar.
GIF stands for Graphics.
JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group.
PNG stands for Portable Network Graphic.
When you add a graphic to a website, it is automatically added to the Assets panel.
To resize the Assets panel, you should undock the files tab group and drag a side or corner of the panel border..
After you place an image on a web page, you have several options for enhancing it, or improving its appearance.
Borders are frames that surround an image.
Horizontal and vertical spaceis blank space above, below, and on the sides of an image that separates the image from text or other elements on the page.
Spacing around web page objects can be created by using spacer images, or clear images that act as placeholders.
Alternate text can be “read” by a(n) screen reader, a device used by persons with visual impairments to convert written text on a computer monitor to spoken words.
The Priority one checkpoints of the W3C dictate the most basic level of accessibility standards to be used by web developers today.
A(n) class style can be used to format any page element.
A(n) HTML Style is used to redefine an HTML tag.
Some people consider serif fonts easier to read in printed material, because the extra strokes lead your eye from one character to the next.
Assets that you expect to use repeatedly while you work on a site are designated as favorites.
You use the Align buttons to center, left-align, or right-align an element without regard to how the element is aligned in relation to other elements.
Adobe Bridge is divided into several panels, such as Folders, Content, Preview, Metadata, and Keyboards.