Adobe Dreamweaver Classroom in a Book (2021 release)

by James Maivald

Overview

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




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




Adobe Dreamweaver Classroom in a Book (2021 release) contains lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing 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.




Purchase of this book includes valuable online features. Follow the instructions in the book’s “Getting Started” section to unlock access to:

• Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book
• Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes, and videos that walk you through the lessons step by step

What you need to use this book: Adobe Dreamweaver (2021 release) software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.)




Note: Classroom in a Book does not replace the documentation, support, updates, or any other benefits of being a registered owner of Adobe Dreamweaver software.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780136875239
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	01/20/2021
Series:	Classroom in a Book Series
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 9.15(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

Getting started 1

About Classroom in a Book 1

TinyURLs 1

Prerequisites 2

Conventions used in this book 2

Bolded text 2

Code font 2

Strikethrough 3

Missing punctuation 3

Element references 3

Windows vs. macOS instructions 3

Installing the program 4

Updating Dreamweaver to the latest version 5

Online content 6

Lesson files 6

Web Edition 6

Accessing the lesson files and Web Edition 6

Recommended lesson order 7

Bonus material 8

On first launch 8

Choosing the program color theme 9

Setting up the workspace 9

Defining a Dreamweaver site 11

Checking for updates 14

Additional resources 15

Adobe Authorized Training Centers 15

1 Customizing your workspace 16

Touring the workspace 18

Using the Start Screen 19

Quick Start 19

Starter Templates 20

Create New and Open 21

Exploring the New Feature guides 21

Setting interface preferences 22

Switching and splitting views 25

Code view 25

Design view 25

Live view 26

Split view 27

Live Code mode 28

Inspect mode 28

Selecting a workspace layout 29

Standard workspace 29

Developer workspace 30

Working with panels 30

Minimizing panels 31

Closing panels and panel groups 32

Dragging 33

Floating 33

Grouping, stacking, and docking 34

Personalizing Dreamweaver 35

Saving a custom workspace 35

Working with the Extract panel 36

Loading Photoshop documents into Extract 36

Working with toolbars 37

Document toolbar 37

Standard toolbar 38

Common toolbar 38

Creating custom keyboard shortcuts 38

Using the Property inspector 40

Using the HTML tab 40

Using the CSS tab 41

Accessing image properties 41

Accessing table properties 41

Using the Related Files interface 42

Using tag selectors 43

Using the CSS Designer 44

Sources 45

@Media 46

Selectors 46

Properties 47

All and Current modes 48

Using the Visual Media Query (VMQ) interface 49

Using the DOM Viewer 49

Using element dialogs, displays, and inspectors 49

Position Assist dialog 49

Element Display 50

Image Display 50

Text Display 50

Setting up version control in Dreamweaver 51

Exploring, experimenting, and learning 53

Review questions 54

Review answers 55

2 HTML basics 56

What is HTML? 58

Where did HTML begin? 58

Frequently used HTML elements 60

HTML tags 60

HTML character entities 62

What's new in HTML5 63

HTML5 tags 63

Semantic web design 64

New techniques and technology 65

Review questions 66

Review answers 67

3 CSS basics 68

What is CSS? 70

HTML vs. CSS formatting 70

HTML defaults 72

HTML5 defaults? 73

Browser antics 74

CSS box model 75

Applying CSS styling 77

Cascade theory 78

Inheritance theory 80

Descendant theory 80

Specificity theory 81

Code Navigator 82

CSS Designer 87

Multiples, classes, and ids, oh my! 93

Applying formatting to multiple elements 93

Using CSS shorthand 93

Creating class attributes 94

Creating id attributes 95

CSS3 features and effects 95

CSS3 overview and support 97

Review questions 98

Review answers 99

4 Working with code 100

Creating HTML code 102

Writing code manually 102

Writing code automatically 106

Working with multicursor support 110

Commenting your code 112

Working with CSS preprocessors 113

Enabling a preprocessor 113

Creating the CSS source file 116

Compiling CSS code 120

Nesting CSS selectors 124

Importing other style sheets 126

Learning more about preprocessors 127

Using linting support 128

Selecting code 129

Using line numbers 129

Using tag selectors 130

Using parent tag selectors 132

Collapsing code 133

Expanding code 134

Accessing Split Code view 134

Previewing assets in Code view 136

Review questions 138

Review answers 139

5 Web design basics 140

Developing a new website 142

What is the purpose of the website? 142

Who is the audience? 142

How do they get here? 143

Scenario 144

Working with thumbnails and wireframes 144

Creating thumbnails 146

Creating a page design 146

Creating wireframes 147

Designing for mobile devices 149

The third way 150

Review questions 152

Review answers 153

6 Creating a page layout 154

Evaluating page design options 156

Working with predefined layouts 156

Styling a predefined layout 159

Styling elements using the Extract panel 161

Troubleshooting CSS conflicts 167

Extracting text from a Photoshop mockup 170

Deleting components and attributes from a template 173

Inserting new menu items 175

Creating new elements with the DOM panel 179

Creating menu items with copy and paste 181

Extracting text styling 182

Creating a gradient background using Extract 186

Extracting image assets from a mockup 191

Creating new Bootstrap structures 193

Adding a background image to the header 197

Finishing up the layout 202

Review questions 204

Review answers 205

7 Working with templates 206

Creating Dreamweaver templates 208

Removing unneeded components 209

Modifying a Bootstrap layout 216

Modifying text formatting in a Bootstrap element 221

Adding template boilerplate and placeholders 223

Fixing semantic errors 226

Inserting metadata 229

Validating HTML code 230

Working with editable regions 232

Image carousel 232

Card-based section 232

List-based section 232

Inserting a new Bootstrap element 233

Inserting an editable region 236

Inserting an editable optional region 239

Working with child pages 242

Creating a new page 242

Adding content to child pages 244

Adding metadata to a child page 246

Updating a template 247

Removing an optional region from a child page 251

Removing unused sections from a child page 252

Review questions 255

Review answers 255

8 Working with text, lists, and tables 255

Previewing the completed file 258

Creating and styling text 260

Importing text 260

Duplicating Bootstrap rows 264

Deleting unused Bootstrap components 267

Creating lists 268

Basing content structures on lists 275

Pasting multiple elements in Live view 278

Creating new list-based items 279

Creating and styling tables 282

Creating tables from scratch 283

Copying and pasting tables 288

Styling tables with CSS 290

Styling table cells 292

Adding header rows to tables 294

Controlling table display 296

Inserting tables from other sources 298

Creating semantic text structures 300

Adding and formatting caption elements 303

Spell-checking webpages 305

Finding and replacing text 307

Review questions 313

Review answers 313

9 Working with images 314

Web image basics 316

Vector graphics 316

Raster graphics 316

Raster image file formats 320

Previewing the completed files 321

Inserting an image 323

Inserting images in Design view 326

Resizing images 328

Inserting Photoshop Images 331

Inserting images using the Assets panel 336

Adapting images to mobile design 338

Using the Insert menu 340

Working with the Insert panel 342

Inserting images into the site template 344

Adding CSS classes to template structures 348

Adding images to a Bootstrap carousel 352

Styling headings and text in a Bootstrap carousel 354

Self-paced exercise: Inserting images in child pages 356

Review questions 359

Review answers 359

10 Working with navigation 360

Hyperlink basics 362

Internal and external hyperlinks 362

Relative vs. absolute hyperlinks 362

Previewing the completed files 363

Creating internal hyperlinks 369

Creating relative links 369

Creating a home link 372

Updating links in child pages 377

Creating an external link 380

Creating an absolute external link in Live view 380

Setting up email links 385

Creating an image-based link 387

Creating image-based links using the Element Display 387

Creathgtext links using the Text Display 388

Targeting page elements 390

Creating internal targeted links 391

Creating a destination link in the Element Display 394

Targeting id-based link destinations 395

Locking an element on the screen 396

Styling a navigation menu 398

Adding a telephone link 401

Checking your page 402

Self-paced exercise: Adding additional links 403

Review questions 405

Review answers 405

11 Publishing to the web 406

Defining a remote site 408

Setting up a remote FTP site (optional) 409

Cloaking folders and files 414

Wrapping things up 416

Creating a home page 417

Completing the home page 419

Putting your site online (optional) 422

Synchronizing local and remote sites 427

Review questions 432

Review answers 433

Appendix: Tiny URLS 434

Index 435

12 Working with mobile design online