Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Basics Tutorial- Page 2
The “Spry Tabbed Panels” are like the Spry Menu Bar except it defaults to the top and it is tabbed like the area around it to keep it congruent.
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The “Spry Accordion” provides you with what seems like a descriptive list format within a creative table.
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The “Spry Collapsible Panel” is pretty much just what it says it is. It allows you to resize the panel as you please and add whatever features you need too.
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The “Table” feature makes a table that you can change to your liking.
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The “Insert Row Above” makes an extra row above the row you are looking at in a table.
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The “Insert Row Below” makes an extra row below the row you are looking at in a table.
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The “Insert Column to the Left” makes a column to the left of the webpage.
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The “Insert Column to the Left” makes a column to the right of the webpage.
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The “Iframe” adds an Iframe tag in your html wherever you want it.
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The next feature allows you to make tables to construct the layout of your webpage. I personally don’t use tables at all to make my layout. I do it all with CSS. Of course if you like tables you can use this handy feature to make all the tables that you can possibly think of for your website. It is a very easy feature that makes it easy to code!
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The “Draw Layout Table” feature allows to actually draw a table like it was within Adobe Fireworks or Adobe Photoshop. I used to use this back in college when I was learning about web development.
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The “Draw Layout Cell” feature allows you to draw tables within your other layout tables. You may need to do this to separate certain sections of your website when adding graphic overlays and such.
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Now we start the forms section by clicking on the “Forms” tab that allows you to select from a wide array of forms that Adobe Dreamweaver makes available to the user.
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The “Text Field” feature makes a form that allows you to add text too. You can change the size of this text field and the parameters within it to whatever you want.
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The “Hidden Field” feature allows you to add a form that is hidden from the viewers view. I am not quite sure what reason you would have to use this, but I am sure you can search it on Google.
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The “Text Area” feature allows you to label certain parts of a table text only.
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The “Checkbox” feature allows you to add a form that makes it capable to checkmark an option.
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The “Radio Button” feature allows you to select an option by clicking on it. Then the black dot will appear next to that option. You can make it select only that option or it can select as many options as you choose to allow it.
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The “Radio Group” feature allows you to make a list of Radio Buttons so that the user can have options. Then you are giving the capability to give them a certain amount of choices as well.
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The “List/Menu” feature allows you to make a list or a menu as a form that can be displayed a webpage and used in a variety of ways.
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