Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Revealed CHAPTER THREE: WORKING WITH TEXT AND IMAGES

Chapter 3 Lessons 1.Create unordered and ordered lists 2.Create, apply, and edit Cascading Style Sheets 3.Add styles and attach Cascading Style Sheets 4.Insert and align images 5.Enhance an image and use alternate text 6.Insert a background image and perform site maintenance

 Breaks up text  Increases readability  Three types of lists:  Unordered  Ordered  Definitions Text as Lists

Cascading Style Sheets  Saves you time  Ensures consistency  Applies formatting attributes to an entire site

Using Images to Enhance Web Pages  Use graphics sparingly  Can complement content of pages  Store in assets folder  Three Web graphic file formats:  GIF  JPEG  PNG

Creating Unordered Lists  Unordered or bulleted  This slide is an example of an unordered list  Select paragraphs of text to be included in list  Click the Unordered List button in Property inspector  Default bullet style is a round dot

Creating Ordered Lists  Called numbered lists  Preceded by numbers or letters in a sequence

Creating Definition Lists  Definition lists do not have bullets  Select paragraphs of text to be included in list  Click Text  List  Definition List

Unordered list button Ordered list button List item button Click to collapse Property inspector Fig. 1: Expanded Property Inspector

List type list arrow Numbered list styles Fig. 2: Choosing a Numbered List Style

Style list arrow List type list arrow Fig. 4: List Properties Dialog Box

Fig. 5: HTML Tags in Code View for Unordered List Beginning tag for unordered list First pair of tags for first list item

Text color button Formatted heading Fig. 7: Spa Page with Ordered List Formatted body text Bold button

Cascading Style Sheets  Sets of rules  Style or rule: formatting attribute that can be applied to page elements  Can be created, edited or applied  New CSS Rule dialog box  CSS Rule definition dialog box  CSS Styles panel

Types of CSS  External CSS  Saved as a separate file (.css)  Stored in the directory structure of a Web site  Internal CSS  Embedded in the code on an individual page

CSS Style Sheet Codes  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

selector declaration property value Fig. 9: Cascading Style Sheet File

Working with CSS  Create a CSS and a style  Apply a CSS  Edit a CSS

New style name Class option for Selector Define in list arrow Fig. 11: New CSS Rule Dialog Box

Type category selected Fig. 12: CSS Rule Definition for.bullets in su_styles.css Dialog Box

Toggle Displaying of CSS Styles button Selected text Click to set font of selected text to Default Font Click to set size of selected text to None Click to apply bullets style to selected text Fig. 15: Applying a CSS Style

Properties of the bullets style Fig. 17: Editing a CSS Style Font size list arrow Properties pane

Add Styles and Attach CSS .css files created by Web designer  Embedded style sheets created automatically by Dreamweaver  Set preference to Use CSS instead of HTML  Formatting in Property inspector  Code in Head content of file  Named style1, style2, etc.

Fig. 19: Code for Embedded Styles

New style name Fig. 20: Adding a Style to a CSS Style Sheet

Fig. 21: Formatting Options for Heading Style

Link option button su_styles.css Fig. 24: Attaching a Style Sheet to a Page

Code linking external style sheet file to the index page Code that applies the body_text style to the paragraph Fig. 25: Viewing the Code to Link the CSS Style Sheet File

Understanding Graphic Formats  Three primary graphic file formats:  GIF  JPEG  PNG

GIF  Graphic Interchange Format  Downloads very quickly  Limited in color  Can show transparent areas

JPEG  Joint Photographic Experts Groups  Can display many colors  Photographs are often saved in this format

PNG  Portable Network Graphics  Shares advantages of GIFs and JPEGs  Not universally recognizable by older browsers

The Assets Panel  Located in the Files panel group  Displays all the assets in a Web site  Has Favorites button  Contains nine categories

The Assets Panel  Categories include:  Images  Colors  URLs  Flash

The Assets Panel  Categories include:  Shockwave  Movies  Scripts  Templates  Library

Inserting Files with Adobe Bridge  Bridge is an easy way to view files outside the Web site before bringing them into the Web site  Integrated application  Works with other Adobe programs such as Photoshop and Illustrator  Use Bridge to add meta tags and search text to your files

Aligning Images  Aligning images means to position them in relation to other elements  Default:  bottom edge aligns with the baseline of the first line of text or any other element in the same paragraph

Drag gripper to undock Images button Category buttons List of images in Web site Site option button Favorites option button Thumbnail of selected image Fig. 26: The Assets Panel

club_house.jpeg inserted Image path (should begin with assets) Inserted file listed in assets folder Fig. 26: The Striped Umbrella About Us Page with Inserted Image

boardwalk.jpeg image is selected Fig. 29: Using Adobe Bridge

Left-aligned image Text wrapped around image Left-aligned option selected Fig. 31: Left-aligned Club House Image

Enhancing Images  Borders  Add horizontal space  Brightness/Contrast  Modify the image and image size using an image editing program

Alternate Text  Descriptive text that appears in place of an image when the image is downloading or when the mouse pointer is placed over it  Makes your Web page viewer-friendly and handicapped accessible  Priority 1 Checkpoint

Selected image with 1-pixel border V Space text box H Space text box Border text box Fig. 34: Using Property Inspector to Add a Border

Image with horizontal and vertical space Image without horizontal and vertical space Fig. 35: Comparing Images with Horizontal and Vertical Space

Drag slider to adjust brightness Fig. 36: Brightness and Contrast Settings

Alternate text box Fig. 37: Alternate Text Setting

Alternate text displayed on top of image Fig. 38: Alternate Text Displayed in Browser

Accessibility category Check boxes for Form objects, Frames, Media, and Images Fig. 39: Preferences Dialog Box with Accessibility Category Selected

Background Images  Keep file size small  Use a tiled image  Small graphic that repeats across or down a page  Or a larger non-tiled image  Use either a background color or a background image, but not both

Managing Images  Adding and removing background images  Delete files from Web site  Remove non-Websafe colors from Web site

Selected filename Fig. 43: Removing a Background Image

Drag the border to the left to expand panel width Both colors are websafe Fig. 45: Colors Listed in Assets Panel

Chapter 3 Tasks  Create unordered and ordered lists  Create/apply/edit Cascading Style Sheets  Add styles and attach Cascading Style Sheets  Insert and align graphics  Enhance an image and use alternate text  Insert a background image and perform site maintenance