California State University at Northridge provides these Dreamweaver Training Guides containing excellent training tutorials for learning how to use many features of Dreamweaver. Topics taught by these training guides include the following: Defining a New Website, The Dreamweaver Work Area, Creating a Basic Web Page, Page Properties, Text, Links, Inserting Common and “Head” Objects, Preparation for Publishing, Using HTML Styles to Format Text, Using Tables in Web Page Design, and Using Templates for Consistent Design.
Dreamweaver MX Basics
The instructions in this document assume the reader has already created web pages using some other web page creation software (e.g., Netscape Composer or Microsoft FrontPage). Some knowledge of HTML coding is also recommended.
- Before You Begin
- Getting Started with Dreamweaver
- Creating a Basic Web Page
- Preparation for Publishing
- How to Learn More
Intermediate-Level Dreamweaver Topics:
Using HTML Styles to Format Text
An HTML style is similar to a Word (or other word processing) style in that it can be defined to specify one or more text-formatting features that can be applied to a paragraph or selected text. As with a Word style, you can apply an HTML style over and over. Unlike a Word style, an HTML style only affects specified text at the time you apply the style. This means that if you later change an HTML style, any text to which the style has been applied will not be affected by the change. This characteristic is more like Word’s Format Painter, which applies text formatting only at the time of application.
- The HTML Styles Panel
- Creating an HTML Style Based on Existing Text
- Creating an HTML Style from Scratch
- Creating an HTML Style from an Existing Style
- Applying an HTML Style
- Editing an HTML Style
- Deleting an HTML Style
- How to Learn More
Using Tables in Web Page Design
One way to give vertical and horizontal structure to a page is to format a web page using tables.
- Standard View vs. Layout View
- Creating a Table in Standard View
- Designing a Page in Layout View
- How to Learn More
Using Templates for Consistent Design
Dreamweaver provides two types of assets that can help you create Web pages with a consistent content and design — templates and libraries. This document describes the basics of creating and using an HTML template to an generate an identical layout for a set of pages. See also Using Libraries to Reuse or Update Page Elements.
- Creating a Basic HTML Template in a New Document Window
- Creating a Basic HTML Template from an Existing Document
- Designing the Page and Defining Editable Regions in a Template
- Using a Template
- Modifying a Template
- Detaching a Document from a Template
- Using the Assets Panel to Work with Templates
- How to Learn More
Using Libraries to Reuse or Update Page Content
Dreamweaver provides two types of assets that can help you create Web pages with a consistent content and design — templates and libraries. Use libraries to store items you’d like to use on multiple pages that do not have an identical layout — when you’d like to reuse headers and footers, for example, with different layouts in between. You might also create a library item for content that appears on only a few pages but must be updated frequently. If you want to create multiple pages that have an identical layout, see Using Templates for Consistent Design.
