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- Dreamweaver provides many tools for working with text and images.
- Dreamweaver has tools that help you format text quickly and consistently.
- You can use Cascading Style Sheets to define consistent formatting attributes for page elements such as text and tables.
- Images make web pages visually stimulating and more exciting than pages that contain only text.
- You can add horizontal rules to help organize a page.
- If you want to see more of your web page in the Document window, you can collapse the Property inspector.
- To add a rule, you should use the New CSS Rule dialog box to name the rule and specify whether to add it to a new or existing style sheet.
- When you make a change to a rule, all page elements formatted with that rule are automatically updated.
- With CSS styles, you can make hundreds of formatting changes in a few minutes.
- The Toggle Displaying of CSS Styles button can be used to see how your styles are affecting your page.
- The Style Rendering toolbar allows you to render your page as different media types, such as print, TV, or handheld.
- When you add graphics to a web page, it’s important to choose the appropriate graphic file format.
- Files saved with the PNG format can display many colors and use various degrees of transparency.
- The PNG format is free to use.
- Sans-serif fonts are block-style characters that are often used for headings and subheadings.
- The three primary graphic file formats used in web pages are GIF, JPEG and PNG.
- Though limited in the number of colors they can represent, GIF files have the ability to show transparent areas.
- JPEG images often contain many shades of the same color; photographs are often saved in this format.
- Positioning an image is referred to as aligning an image.
- IThe Assets panel contains nine category buttons that you use to view your assets by category.
- To delete an asset from the Favorites list, select the asset you want to delete, then press [Delete] or the Remove from Favorites button on the Assets panel.
- Alternate text is descriptive text that appears in place of an image while the image is downloading or when the mouse pointer is placed over it.
- The use of alternate text is the first checkpoint listed in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) list of Priority 1 accessibility checkpoints.
- A(n) Non-web-safe colors are colors that may not be displayed uniformly across computer platforms.
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- In Windows, sometimes it’s necessary to press [Ctrl] (Win) while you click the Refresh Site List button.
- To recreate the site cache, you should click Site on the Application bar, point to Advanced, then click Recreate Site Cache.
- To open the Page Properties dialog box you should click Modify on the Application bar, then click Page Properties.
- The <body></body> tags define the beginning and end of the body section of a web page.
- Adobe Bridge is an easy way to view files outside the website before bringing them into the website.
- A good rule of thumb is to limit each website to no more than three font variations.
- The term graphics is used to refer to the appearance of most non-text items on a web page such as photographs, logos, navigation bars, Flash animation, graphs, background images, and drawings.
- Each image on a web page takes a specific number of seconds to download, depending on the size of the file. Files are measured in kilobytes.
- If you need to resize an image to reduce the file size, use an external image editorinstead of resizing it in Dreamweaver.
- Dreamweaver includes the ability to copy and paste a Photoshop PSD file directly from Photoshop into Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver will prompt you to ____ the image by choosing a file format and settings for the web.
- Once you set the Accessibility preferences in Dreamweaver, such as the alternate text option, they will be in effect for all websites that you develop.
- Use the [Ctrl][B] shortcut to Bold.
- Use the shortcut [Ctrl][`] to switch view.
- Use the [F5] shortcut to Refresh.
- Background images are image files used in place of background colors.
- Removing an image from a web page does not remove it from the assets folder in the local root folder of the website.
- Items in unordered lists are usually preceded by a(n) bullet, or a small raised dot or similar icon.
- Unordered lists that contain bullets are sometimes called bulleted lists.
- Definition lists are often used with terms and definitions, such as in a dictionary or glossary.
- Internal or Embedded styles are saved as part of the head content of an individual web page.
- CSS style sheets contain styles, or rules, which are formatting attributes that can be applied to page elements.
- External style sheets are the preferred method for creating and using styles.
- The selector is the name of the tag to which the style declarations have been assigned.
- The declaration consists of the property and the value, as the example figure above shows.
- You can click the Edit Rule button in the CSS Styles panel to open the CSS Rule Definition for the dialog box of the currently selected class.
- If you position the insertion point in text that has a CSS rule applied to it, that rule is displayed in the Targeted Rule text box on the Property inspector
- Click the Click indicators to view the Code Navigator icon, as shown in the figure above.
- Arial and Helvetica are sans-serif fonts.
- The Toggle Displaying of CSS Styles button appears on the Style Rendering toolbar.
- GIF stands for Graphics.
- JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group.
- PNG stands for Portable Network Graphic.
- When you add a graphic to a website, it is automatically added to the Assets panel.
- To resize the Assets panel, you should undock the files tab group and drag a side or corner of the panel border..
- After you place an image on a web page, you have several options for enhancing it, or improving its appearance.
- Borders are frames that surround an image.
- Horizontal and vertical spaceis blank space above, below, and on the sides of an image that separates the image from text or other elements on the page.
- Spacing around web page objects can be created by using spacer images, or clear images that act as placeholders.
- Alternate text can be “read” by a(n) screen reader, a device used by persons with visual impairments to convert written text on a computer monitor to spoken words.
- The Priority one checkpoints of the W3C dictate the most basic level of accessibility standards to be used by web developers today.
- A(n) class style can be used to format any page element.
- A(n) HTML Style is used to redefine an HTML tag.
- Some people consider serif fonts easier to read in printed material, because the extra strokes lead your eye from one character to the next.
- Assets that you expect to use repeatedly while you work on a site are designated as favorites.
- You use the Align buttons to center, left-align, or right-align an element without regard to how the element is aligned in relation to other elements.
- Adobe Bridge is divided into several panels, such as Folders, Content, Preview, Metadata, and Keyboards.