Adjust Smart Objects in GoLive

Adjust Smart Objects in GoLive
Excerpted from “Adobe GoLive CS2 Tips and Tricks” by Adam Pratt and Lynn Grillo
The new Smart Object …

Crop Smart Objects

Crop Smart Objects
After a Smart Object is placed on a page, you may decide you don’t want to use the entire image on the web. A …

Scale Smart Objects

Scale Smart Objects
When you scale Smart Objects, hold the Shift key to constrain the proportions of the image. Holding Shift to constr …

Matte Smart Objects

Matte Smart Objects
Have you ever tried to eliminate the amateur-looking white fringe around transparent images? It’s normally a …

CSS Made Simple

CSS Made Simple

Cascading style sheets (CSS) let you control every aspect of layout and type on a Web page. Adobe� GoLive� CS makes cr …

Create an external style sheet.

Create an external style sheet.
Open a site, and choose File > New Special > Cascading Style Sheet. In the right pane of the CSS …

Create an HTML style.

Create an HTML style.
Click and hold the Create New Element Style button in the CSS Editor, and choose h1 from the Create New Element S …

Define HTML style properties.

Define HTML style properties.
Click the Font Properties tab in the CSS Editor, click the lower right corner of the Color field, and cho …

Create a class style.

Create a class style.
Click the Create New Class Style button at the bottom of the CSS Editor, and type a name for the class style in t …

Define class style properties.

Define class style properties.
Click the Font Properties tab in the CSS Editor and click the Back Color field to set a background color …

Reference the external style sheet.

Reference the external style sheet.
Save the style sheet and close the CSS Editor. Select all the pages in your site that you want to u …

Apply the class style.

Apply the class style.
Open one of the pages to which you applied the external style sheet in step 6 and select a block of text. Select …

Validate your source code syntax

Validate your source code syntax
Excerpted from “Adobe GoLive CS Tips and Tricks” by Adam Pratt and Lynn Grillo.
You spend preciou …

Site-wide color management

Site-wide color management
Excerpted from “Adobe GoLive CS Tips and Tricks” by Adam Pratt and Lynn Grillo.
Adobe� GoLive� CS includ …

Adobe GoLive Overview

The year was 1995. Alanis was at the top of the charts and I was fresh out of school, ready to be the best damn busboy that Denny’ …

Working with the Site Window

Working with the Site Window

I first envisioned GoLive as a magical tool that allowed beginners to create Web pages any old way they …

Dealing with Dummies

Dealing with Dummies

To get a visual idea of your site, go to the Site Window, and click on the Site tab. This window displays each p …

Designing with the Document Window

Designing with the Document Window

Returning to the Files tab in the Site Window, I see that all of my newly created files have been …

Inserting an Image

Inserting an Image

Now that my page is orange, I need to add my splash image. This is when the Palette Window comes into play. The P …

Building the Frames

Building the Frames

Let’s take a look at some of the other views in the Document Window. I want to see how this page will look …