Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Classroom in a Book

Product Description

The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Dreamweaver CS4

Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Classroom in a Book contains 11 lessons. The book covers the basics of learning Adobe Dreamweaver and provides countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.

Learn how to create and manage web sites, build rich interactive interfaces, incorporate graphics, text, and video, and use Photoshop Smart Objects.

“The Classroom in a Book series is by far the best training material on the market. Everything you need to master the software is included: clear explanations of each lesson, step-by-step instructions, and the project files for the students.” —Barbara Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor, Rocky Mountain Training

Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does—an official training series from Adobe Systems incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

Table of Contents

Getting Started
Lesson 1 Getting a Quick Start and Exploring Your Workspace
Lesson 2 Working with Cascading Style Sheets
Lesson 3 Working with Text, Lists, and Tables
Lesson 4 Working with Images
Lesson 5 Working with Navigation
Lesson 6 Adding Interactivity
Lesson 7 Creating a page layout from scratch
Lesson 8 Working with Forms
Lesson 9 Working with Flash
Lesson 10 Increasing Productivity
Lesson 11 Publishing to the Web

Errata

Page 36: Step 6 should tell you to choose "all" instead of choose "screen." Also, the screenshot should show the word "all" in the Media field.

Because of the error on page 36, you may run into a problem later in the chapter. If so, rather than backtrack to page 36, you can do this to fix the problem: Using Code View, change the link for mystyles.css to read media="all" rather than media="screen". The correct link should be:
<link href="mystyles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />

Now, the directions starting on page 52 about print styles should work correctly.

Page 57, Step 2: There is no rule called ".twoColFixLtFtr #footer". The step should read "Highlight and delete all the styles except .twoColFixLtHdr #header h1. When you finish, only one rule should remain in print.css: twoColFixLtHdr #header h1."

Page 64: Step 5 should read "Choose File > Edit..."

Page 89: Step 3 should read "Select the image placeholder labeled "portara (200 X 200)," and press Delete to remove it."

Page 91: Top paragraph, third sentence should read "You inserted a foreground image . . ."

Page 93: Step 3 should show the 2-sprocket icon.

Page 109:
Step 3 should read “In the Properties panel Link field, ...”
Step 13, the last sentence should read "...create a text-based link."

Pages 114-115: Step 6, third sentence in the paragraph should read "You already added this folder to your hard drive to preview the finished page."

Page 142: Step 10, second sentence in the paragraph should read "Although the content added in this exercise was already on the page, you could enter content and edit directly in the Content panels."

Page 191: Step 3 should read "From the Forms category...

On the Disc:
In the Lesson 02 files on the disc, there is a typo in about-finished.html. You can correct it using Code and Design View or using Code View. The div holding information about Jason has this incorrect opening tag:
<div class="progile">
To correct it, change the class attribute to say:
<div class="profile">