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most of your styles before creating all your Web pages. You can add styles
later on, but you would have to re-highlight and apply any new styles to
the existing text. If you make a change to an existing style, it is updated
through out its usage in the site.
5.
To edit the style go to
Manage Styles
on the
Properties Inspector
Behaviors
Dreamweaver's behavior tools let you apply common JavaScript actions
without having to write any JavaScript. You can make something happen on a
page when your users load a page, click on an object, or move the mouse
around (Towers, 1999, p. 29). To open the Behaviors palette go to
Window>Behaviors
.
Behaviors provide a wealth of JavaScript features that are perfect functional
compliments and necessities to your Web portfolio. For example,
Pop Up
Windows (Open Browser Window)
are excellent for presenting your content
in an defined window that isolates the work and allows the user to concentrate
on the work and not on the other elements located on the Web page.
Rollovers
(Swap Image)
are also important elements in Web page design. Rollovers in
a Web page refer to the execution of a change of graphic or text color when
“rolling over” a Web page hot (active) link.
The behaviors palette in Dreamweaver MX 2004 allows you to add several
behaviors to the Web page's text and graphic elements.
Rollovers (Swap Image)
Rollovers provide feedback to the user when they mouse over an image by
replacing the image with a “lit up” image or another image entirely (Towers,
1999). There are several ways to create rollovers in Dreamweaver. One way
is to use the
Swap Image Behavior.
Another is to use
Insert>Image
Objects>Rollover Image.
Either way is effective, so we will describe both
techniques. You can choose the one that you are most comfortable using. The
Insert Object technique seems to be a bit simpler. Both techniques accomplish
the same thing, setting up a rollover image on an HTML page.
