May 16, 2002
Please feel free to invite some of your colleagues from your or another
city/county if you think it would benefit them to be part of our group!
DreamWeaver Tips and Tricks
Thanks to Chris Audano and everyone else who made this meeting
such a success. We learned how to use our Assets and Library Items in DreamWeaver.
To create/use your assets: Select Windows>Assets to display a floating palette. If you click the radio button
for site, it will list all of a certain type of asset, depending upon which button is selected on the left. The
top one is images, second is colors, third is links, etc.
Favorites: Looking at all of the images or links for a site may be cumbersome; this is why you use favorites. While
in site mode, highlight an asset often used and click on the purple ribbon with a plus sign. This will add that
asset to your favorites, where you can nickname the asset something easier to remember. You can also organize your
favorites into folders.
To insert an asset into a web page: Place the cursor where you want to add an image or highlight the text or graphic
if you want to link. Highlight the asset and click Insert (bottom left of the palette).
Chris's handout:
Library Items
Library items can only belong to individual sites.
It works by inserting code into the web document along with a reference to the item's definition. You can change
the code wherever the reference appears.
To Create a Simple Library Item
- Display the Library window by choosing it from the Window menu (when a web page is open).
- Insert graphic or select a graphic on the page.
- Click the Create button in the Library Window.
- Name Library item.
To Add Library Item to Web Page
- Position insertion point somewhere on the web page.
- Select the library item from the Library window.
- Click the Add to Page button in the Library window or drag from Library window to desired location.
To Modify Library Item
- Click the library item on any of the pages it's being referenced OR Open the library item directly from the Library window OR Go to site menu and select library item from the directory.
- Make changes, add hot spot navigation, etc.
- Save changes and it will automatically ask you to update the pages that reference the Library item.
We also went over the importance of using the Find and Replace feature
in DreamWeaver. It works much like you would think, but has more features than in programs like Word. In DreamWeaver
you can use the Find and Replace for page text, source code or specific tags and it can be used site-wide, for
a specific folder or specific page or selection.
Next Meeting: More DreamWeaver and FireWorks
Our next meeting will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 20, at the MARC offices.
Since we enjoyed our discussion so much last month, we will continue with DreamWeaver and Fireworks; there is plenty
more to learn! Barbara Hensley has also offered to give us a quick run-through of how MARC's new shopping cart
feature works.
We will have time at the end of the meeting to discuss what's on your mind or any issues you'd like to talk about.
Since our new time is right before the lunch hour, I'd also like to invite anyone who would like to chat and share
ideas over lunch to get together after the meeting.
We are tentatively planning to discuss Adobe Acrobat and PDFs more in-depth for our July meeting. If you have
suggestions or questions we should specifically address, send them over the listserv or bring them up at our June
meeting.
IIf you have any ideas for future topics or guest speakers, please share them with Rich Lovett, KCMO (rich_lovett@kcmo.org) or Susan Waters, Overland Park (sjwaters@opkansas.org).
SJW