A Graphics Tool - Dream Weaver

1. Adobe Dreamweaver is one of the most popular professional web development

software package.

2. Dreamweaver was created by Company - Macromedia in 1997 & in 2005 Adobe

acquired Macromedia & hence its known as Adobe Dreamweaver.

3. Adobe Dreamweaver is a web design & development application that provides

WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor.

4. Dreamweaver is suitable for everything from simple page design to development of

dynamic pages written in PHP, CSS, XML, XSLT, JavaScript etc..

5. Dreamweaver is far more than a simple HTML editor.

6. Dreamweaver supports a large number of scripting languages as PHP, ASP, CSS, JAVA
etc.

7. Dreamweaver is available for both Mac & Windows operating systems. It’s a cross
platform development tool that allows users to preview websites in their web browser.

8. Dreamweaver is an industry standard for web development. It allows any type of user
from beginners to professionals, from designers to developers to easily create simple or
complex dynamic websites.

9. The skilled professionals usually use the script mode of the Dreamweaver.

10. For designers & developers with more advanced skills there is a Split View
functionality, which allow them to edit the code directly in the scripting window & to
see the changes in the editor.
Creation of Computer Animation using Macromedia Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver is a web page design tool that allows users to animate elements of page
with graphical interface. Its supports all type of web programming languages (php,
java, .net, asp.net, c# etc). In this we set up a timeline reminiscent of the timeline in
Director & Flash. We can quickly set up animation of an object by setting values such as
scale & position on the timeline as key frames. Here is how we create a simple DHTML
(combination of HTML & Java scripting) animation in dream weaver.

1. Open a new document.

2. Place an image on the page by clicking the insert image button & choosing a file in
the file dialog.

3. Choose insert/layer to create a new layer in the document. This layer appears as a
boundary box with a marker & a position handle.

4. Drag the image into the layer box to add it to the layer.

5. Select the layer in the Timeline window.

6. Choose modify/add object to timeline. This command insert a control track for the
layer into the timeline.

7. Drag the final key frame of the layer’s control track left or right to adjust the
duration of the animation.

8. Select the final key frame of the layer’s control track, grab the position handle of the
layer and move the layer across the page window. This step sets the position of the
layer at the selected frame in the timeline. A line indicates the animation path.

9. Select a point on the timeline halfway between the first & last key frames then
move the layer again to set its position at the new point in time. This step creates a
third key frame & the animation path changes to curve connecting the three key
positions.

10. Save the page in HTML format. Open the page in our browser, which should be
Netscape or Internet Explorer.