When laying out web pages, sometimes you may find it is difficult to assign an absolute position of the inserted objects. In this case, you need a new tool to help yourself—“layer”. In Dreamweaver8.0, a layer is an HTML page element–specifically, a div tag, or any other tag–that has an absolute position assigned to it. Layers can contain text, images, or any other content that you can place in the body of an HTML document.
In fact, you always use hyperlinks in web pages. When you left-click the objects such as images, texts and Emails, the web page will automatically turn into another. Yes, this change is created by hyperlink in Dreamweaver 8.0. Hyperlink is the most and essential element in websites, which connect some different web pages to make up an integrated website. Its function is to build the links from one position to another. According to the differences of link paths, there are three styles–document-relative paths, site root-relative paths and absolute path in hyperlink. And when designing web pages, you maybe need email link for some objects. Left-click it and you can send email. Now let us learn how to create hyperlink and email link.
Sometimes you may find that when your mouse rolls over an image, the image will change into another. This change is due to inserting rollover images. Rollover images mean that the original image will become another image when the mouse passes by. In fact rollover images consist of two images—original image and rollover image. The two images must be in the same size. If the rollover image is different from the original image, Dreamweaver8.0 will adjust the size of the second image.
Text is the most simple and fundamental part in the web page. No matter how colorful the pages are, text still makes a important role in them. Here wo have three sections to teach you build a perfect web page of text mode.
Are you new to building web sites? Dreamweaver 8.0 may become your new best friend. Even you are experienced web designer, you may be fascinated by this powerful web editor which can help you with every aspect of web development.
In this article we will show you the simple but basic steps to build web pages from the easiest one—static web pages. Some fundamental functions of Dreamweaver8.0 will appear. Now let us start. Go.
