Dreamweaver provides two methods to insert media objects: the Media pop-up menu on the Insert bar and the Insert menu. The Media pop-up menu, located on the Insert bar Common category, contains buttons for inserting these special configurable objects . You use the Insert bar to....

you learn how to add interactive media to a Web page. Interactive media, or multimedia, is not suitable for all Web sites. You most likely have visited Web sites that contained so many bits and pieces of multimedia that, instead of being a constructive part of the site, the multimedia elements were ....

Media objects, also called multimedia, are files that can be displayed or executed within HTML documents or in a stand-alone fashion. Examples include graphics such as GIFs and JPEGs, video, audio, Flash objects (SWF), Shockwave objects (DIR or DCR), PDFs (Adobe’s Portabl....

To provide the Web site visitor with the ability to control the slide show requires that a Start button be added to the Web page. Clicking the button the first time starts the image sequence. Clicking the button again advances the sequence to the next image. Adding a Start butt....

After creating a timeline, you can preview it in Dreamweaver by using the Timelines panel playback options. Recall that the Rewind button moves the playback head to the first frame in the timeline. The Back button moves the playback head one frame to the left. Clicking the Back button and holding do....

The next step is to add a pause between each slide. Adding a pause stops the timeline from playing. Adding pauses between slides is accomplished through the Timelines panel Behaviors channel. Simply click the desired frame number in the Behaviors channel and apply the Stop Timeline behavior. The Sto....

Recall that you use a keyframe to define the properties of an object in a timeline. A start keyframe and a stop keyframe automatically are added to the beginning and end of each timeline. You can use keyframes to change an object’s position or to show and hide layers. As ....

The slide show is not a self-running animation. Instead, the Web site user controls the slide show by clicking a button. Thus, the time, or fps, is not relevant. The number of frames within each of the timelines, therefore, can be set to a minimum. Keyframes are added to the timeline to show and hid....

The animation you just created uses a nonlinear path. Your next objective is to create a side show using a linear, or straight-line, path animation. You accomplish this primarily through the Timelines panel, by adding keyframes at various points along the timelines. As discussed previously, keyframe....

you learned about the onMouseOver event. In addition to the onMouseOver event, Dreamweaver provides access to several other events that you can assign as animation controls. These events include onClick, onDblClick, onKeyDown, onKeyPress, onKeyUp, onMouseDown, onMouseOut, onMouseUp, onAbort, onError....