It is important that you check and verify that your links work. Links are not active within Dreamweaver; that is, you cannot open a linked document by clicking the link in the Document window. You can check any type of link by displaying the page in a browser. Using a browser i....

Dreamweaver’s Results panel (Figure 9-51 on the next page) provides several options to help maintain your site. These options are described below: ■    Search Use this option to search for and replace text, source code, and specific tags for the ....

As with any other technology, you first determine what you want to accomplish by adding a sound. Your sound should serve a clear and useful purpose or have an entertaining or instructional value. Web site developers primarily use one of three methods to add sound to a Web page: linking to an audio f....

Adding sound to your Web page can add interest and set a mood. Background music can enhance your theme. Attaching sounds to objects, such as the sound of clicking buttons, can provide valuable feedback to the Web site visitor. Sound, however, can be expensive m terms of the Web....

Dreamweaver makes it easy to insert a Flash movie into a Web page. Simply position the insertion point in the Document window at the location where you would like the movie to display. Then click the Flash button on the Media pop-up menu and select the file name. Flash movies end with .swf extension....

The earliest Web pages were plain, consisting mostly of text with links on a gray or white background. Eventually, typefaces changed, and colors and static images were added. In 1997, Macromedia purchased a software program known as FutureSplash and changed the name to Flash. F....

You edit Flash text through the Property inspector. If you select Flash text, the Flash Text Property inspector displays Flash attributes. The following section describes the Flash Text Property inspector. FLASH TEXT NAME The Flash Text name is an identifier used to identif....

To begin creating your splash page, you open the splash.htm data file and then add Flash text. The page includes layers containing tables to facilitate page layout and to add borders to the Flash text object and other objects. The splash page contains three layers, which are na....

Recall that Dreamweaver comes with two Flash objects you can use without having the Flash program. These two objects are Flash buttons and Flash text. In Project 7, you created a framed Web site and added Flash buttons to the navigation frame. In this project, you add ....

The Macromedia Flash program is an excellent way to create and add animation and interactivity to a Web page. It is a collection of tools for animating and drawing graphics, adding sound, creating interactive elements, and playing movies. It quickly is becoming a standard for W....