Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Tutorials
Dreamweaver Workspace / The Insert Menu pt. 1
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Let me now review in more detail the Insert Bar and how to use the Insert Bar up here at the top of the interface right below the horizontal main menu, the Insert Bar contains buttons for creating and inserting objects such as tables, AP elements and images. Notice the buttons are organized into categories which you can switch by clicking the tabs along the top of the Insert Bar, common, layout, forms, data, all your Spry widgets are included right here in the Spry tab of the Insert Bar, text and you have a favorites category, let me review each of these categories shortly but notice that additional categories may appear when the current document contains server codes such as ASP or CFML documents, when you start Dreamweaver the category that you were last working with opens by default, some categories have buttons with pop-up menus when you select an option from the pop-up menu it becomes default action for that button, for example, if you select image placeholder from the image buttons pop-up menu, that's this one right here, image placeholder, let's go ahead and add an image placeholder here but notice that the next time that I use that button, it defaults to the image placeholder option even though I can apply or insert images, rollover images, Fireworks, HTML, or navigation bars or I can draw a rectangle hotspot, oval hotspot or a polygon hotspot all with that one button there in the common tab of the Insert Bar. Let me quickly review the organization of the Insert Bar and all of its various categories starting with the common category, this lets you create and insert the most commonly used objects such as images and tables and also I have links here, email links, named anchors, there's a horizontal rule, let's go ahead and add a horizontal rule right up here above my header, by clicking on that button, and there's a horizontal rule, there's another one there. I can insert tables, DIV tags, dates, server site, includes, scripts and so on. Next, we have the layout category, this is probably the one that I use the most, notice that with the layout category you have standard and expanded modes for working with tables, the expanded tables mode makes it easier to select inside and around tables, more on these two modes when we get into the table section of this tutorial, but you also have a tool here or a button for inserting the DIV tag, for drawing an AP DIV tag, Spry menu bar, Spry tabbed panels, Spry accordions, notice that some of the buttons are duplicated, I also have these buttons here in the Spry tab, but here in the layout tab I can also insert tables, as well as iFrames and frames here to the right, so there you have a quick overview of the Dreamweaver CS4 Insert Bar here at the top of the interface. Now the Property Inspector at the bottom of the interface is I believe one of the most important interface components in all of Adobe's products and I think Dreamweaver is no exception so let me now move on to the next movie and review in much more detail how you're going to be using and some of the features of the Property Inspector in Dreamweaver CS4.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 |
| Author: | James Gonzalez |
| SKU: | 33968 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-30-0 |
| Release Date: | 2009-02-13 |
| Duration: | 9.5 hrs / 104 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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