Dreamweaver MX Summaries Today

Today we were supposed to have a test on DreamWeaver MX, even though I was able to study with the CD i still wont do good because the wording was too confusing, even though i could understand I can't extract all the information out of it. It actually turned out that we do not need to do the test today, it was postponed to Tuesday. Instead in today's class we were supposed to summarize movies, 1, 3, 4, 6, 7 in our blogs. And the following summaries are:

Movie 1: In the beginning it talked about what was DreamWeaver MX, which was a tool used to make a website. It also talked briefly about what workspace you want to work in to build your website. It teaches you how to chose your workspace. If it is your first time launching it there will be a pop up window for you to choose your work space. You can choose the dreamweaver 4 layout workspace if you want by clicking on the box. Some people may just want to work with codes so on the left side with the dreamweaver MX work spaces there are 2 option one states Home Site/ Coder style, this is for people who like using coding more. You can also choose the Dreamweaver Mx Workspace. It works the best if you are in the most comfortable workspace for you so choose the most comfortable workspace for you. It mentions that DreamWeaver MX can support Mac operating systems (OS). The second half of this movie talked about how dream weaver MX has a new site set up wizard, which is a tool to help you make a website and the wizard is just a walk through that helps you set up the steps for dream weaver to make a website. The steps to get there are: Site, New Site, Insert a name for the site, Next, Choose if you want server technology if so choose the server (a server is a something that provides service or help for use by other computer, in other words a server is a computer that provides something for a computer to use, so a web server provides services for web pages or brings web pages to other computers) Dream weaver also detects what type of sever technology you are using there are many companies that provides services with a computer, and each computer is using a different server technology, something that provides you with services. After this step it just tells you how do you want to work on you website things like editing it and testing it, so do you want to test it on the server. If you chose to work on it locally, so basically in one computer, then you will need to store the information somewhere. Then you get to choose if your web gets shared with anyone, and then you will see all the option, once you fish, it will make the "initial site Cash" which is a program like thing that when you edit something on dream weaver it edits it on the website, once its done something will appear in the files panel, on the site tab, and you can access the files on it.

Movie 3: It teaches you about the lessons you will learn using 2 fake websites to teach you how to make on. This movie teaches you how to start a lesson in the lesson folder. The Steps to do so are:

Site, Site Files, Site (on pop up), Import, select site file, open, then locate what folder that it is in without going into the file, then click select, if your file is a folder, enter it then click select.

This will bring one of your sites or lessons to dreamweaver, and you can use them.

Movie 4: This movie talks about what happens when you launch DreamWeaver Mx for the first time and the choosing of the workspace, and it mentions what type of workspace they will be working on in the training. It also tells you how to change to workspace layout in the preferences, a buton. This one also show you a little about the layouts. It talks about the pannels that are on the right side of the work space, and how to enlarge it by clicking on the arrow, they are grouped so it wont get confusing have som on one side and some on the other. It tells you how to remove a panel from the group by just draging it out and droping it, to put it in again you just drag it back to the spot where you want it and drop. It also talks about how to hide the groups of pannels, by click on a arrow button pointing to the right on the left edge of the box. It also talkes about the insert bar, and what it is used for (used to insert objects), which is just putting in some code for that object it. It also talks about the 3 types of view you can change you workspace into, a coder view whith only codes, a coder and desighn view with codes and desight, and a desighn view. Code view is used to insert objects but with code, the desighn view is to move things around, but you can use the insert bar to insert objects, and the desighn and code view is just a little bit of both. An important bar that this movie went over was the properties bar, it allows you to edit the colour and other properties of the objects and words/text. Depending on what object you click, it determines what type of properties edits you can make on that object becuase not all properties changes aply to an object only some do, so dreamweaver only shows you the one that could be done.

Movie 6: This movies starts by reviewing how to "undock" pannels or removing it from the group and putting it onto the website and how to expand it. There are option menues for the pannels, when you expand a pannel you will see a object under the close button, and that is the options button. Later this movie introduces to you what options can you do in the options button, some options are rename the pannel, maximize it, which you can do on the options menu or by double clicking the title. It also tells you how to add tabs to a pannel, create a new pannel (which you do by click options new pannel), and deleting one.

Movie 7: This movie talks more about the properties bar, and at first it tells you how to acess it (Windows, Properties) and tells you what does the properties bar do (lets a person edit the characteristics of an object that is selected. I also mentions that you can even select objects even when they are in code. It talks about how to edit the characteristics, to do so just click on the boxes under the titles that state what will be edited. It also reviews that different objects can edit difrent characteristics. It also talks about a icon in the properties menu call point to file. By click on an object and using this you can make a link. (Click on Object, click on point ot file key, move to files panal, move down (it will automatically expand) and choose the file you want to hyperlink the object to. I also mentions that the properties menu have a options menu in it.