Another year, another version of Dreamweaver. The Big Question, as always: should you fork out for the update? Well, if you use CSS in …
Cartoonists pick and choose their pens. Contractors select their wood. Teachers decorate their classrooms. Why can’t developers c …
Macromedia’s Flash and Adobe’s Live Motion have stolen much of the spotlight for animation. “Hey,” the pr …
To animate the CompanyLogo layer you created earlier, we’ll have to add it to the Timeline. To do this, select the layer and drag …
Adding Extra Keyframes
Not all animations move in a straight line. What if the animation of the Company-Logo needs to shoot from one si …
Timeline Behaviors
Unlike the first animation, the Autoplay and Loop checkboxes will not be se-lected. Instead, we’ll use a Behav …
It seems that every page you visit on the Web uses Flash in some way or another — whether it’s an intro movie, or groovy bu …
Select the Flash Text button. This opens the dialog window for the Flash Text control. You’ll see in the figure below that the wi …
Flash Text Properties Panel
The Properties Panel is slightly modified for the specifics of Flash Text in Dreamweaver. Image D shows the …
A Few Flash Tricks
There is always time for a Flash trick or two. One of the things I mentioned earlier is that the default background …
A Marriage Of Minds
You’ve already heard of Macromedia Flash, the de facto standard for high quality Web animation. But Flash is …
Breaking Ground
Dreamweaver MX makes things easier by allowing you to organize the components of a Web application – static as we …
Naming Names
Once your site has been set up, it’s time to get started with a simple example – a page that display PHP envir …
Now comes the interesting part – integrating PHP business logic into this example. Click the “PHP” tab that should ha …
Bringing In The Database
One of the coolest features of Dreamweaver MX is the ability to build a dynamic database-driven Web site witho …