| CSS Styles Instead of using endless Font Tags |
| Use CSS Styles in Dreamweaver to format text in your site. You can also use CSS Styles to create text rollovers and remove the underline from links. |
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| Customizing Form Objects and Validating Forms |
| You can give a background color and font type to form objects using CSS Styles in Dreamweaver. You can also validate forms using Dreamweaver behaviors. |
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| Link to Named Anchors |
You can link to a particular section of a page by using a feature called Named Anchors. E.g. If you want a link to Rollovers you would link to this same page but would add a named anchor to go to the section Rollovers. Here's how you add an anchor. Position your cursor at the point you want the link to go to and click on Insert>Named Anchors. Give the anchor an appropriate name (in this case we would name it 'rollovers'). Now while linking all you need to do is add the # symbol along with the name of the anchor. An anchor is understood by HTML by the # symbol. In this case the link would be:
<a href="#rollovers">Rollovers</a> |
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| Making Table Rows with Heights Less than 15 Pixels |
| Making table rows with heights less than 15 pixels sometimes seems impossible. Especially in Netscape or FireFox. Here's a tip: All you need to do is insert a transparent gif in your row and all your heights will be fine. You can find a transparent image called a shim in your Fireworks file. This is just a 1 pixel x 1 pixel gif. You could also export a transparent image from Fireworks. |
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| Thin Boarder around Tables |
| Have you ever wondered how to get a nice thin border instead of the thick border that is automatically generated using the 'border' property? Or have you ever wanted only the table to have a border and not all the cells. Well the answer to this is to make a table with the width you want and 1 as your cell padding. You then have to insert the actual table inside this table with width 100%. |
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| Custom Submit Buttons |
Create custom 'Submit' or 'Go' buttons in Dreamweaver? Well, It's really simple. All you need to do is create your custom image, save it and in Dreamweaver click on Insert>Form Object>Image Field, to choose the submit button image. You now have your customized submit button. The code will look like this:
- <input type="image" border="0" name="imageField3" src="/images/submit.gif">
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| Rollovers |
| Rollovers are very easy using Dreamweaver. All you need to do is export two images from Fireworks (the image itself and the rollover image). Next, in Dreamweaver, click on Insert>Rollover Image. Give a name to the image, choose the images from the folder icon and finally give the link to the image. |
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| Check Broken Links Throughout The Site |
| Before uploading your site you need to make sure that there are no dead links in the site. You can do this by going to your site map, right clicking on any of the files and then clicking on 'check links'. Now you can choose to either check links in the entire site or within the selected files. |
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