Question | Answer |
DIV | Used for structure for a website and are better than tables for setup since they are standards compliant. |
Files | This panel shows the green site folder and all files and folders and allows you to publish to a server. |
FLV | Format for Flash Video. |
hotspot | Tool used to set areas on an imagemap--circle, rectangle, and polygon. |
imagemap | This clickable graphic is created using the hotpot tool. |
cloaking | Enables you to exclude files and folders or specific filetypes from operations such as Get or Put when posting to the web server. |
Snippets | Panel where you can save pieces of HTML code for easy insertion into a webpage. |
Split | View where you can see both the code and the design view. |
CSS Layout Backgrounds | Visual aid features that makes each DIV appear a different color in Design View. |
absolute | A path for a hyperlink that goes to a specific place on the internet starting with http:// |
relative | A path that goes to certain folders based on the current file location, like images/dog.jpg |
em | HTML code for italics that replaced i |
spry | A special framework of reusable widgets created in Ajax. When you insert a widget, Dreamweaver automatically includes the necessary JavaScript and CSS files in your site when you save the page. |
screen readers | Accessibility tool that reads the text on the page and the alt text from images. |
server models | PHP, MySQL, ASP Javascript, and ColdFusion |
site analytics | Details about a website, such as number of visitors, location of visitors, most visited pages, and how the site was located online. |
external CSS | The most consistent way to use CSS, which is to link it to a separate CSS page. |
embedded CSS | When you put all CSS styles in a style section in the head of a webpage. |
inline CSS | When styles are put inside HTML tags (such as style="text-align: center" inside an h1 tag on the webpage) |
BrowserLab | An online service through Adobe that will preview your website on multiple browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome) and operating systems. |
Assets | This panel shows a list of certain categories of items--images, shockwave files, video, sound and colors in a webpage. |
http:// | An absolute hyperlink starts with this. |
demographics | The most important criteria about your audience used to determine relevance of site content. |
Live View | This "view" in Dreamweaver lets you preview SWF files, animated GIFs, rollovers, and video. |
head | This section of a webpage includes things like the title, meta, and link tags. |
CSS | The website http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ is used to find errors and potential problems in: |
WCAG | These guidelines are the closest you can get to official usability standards for web design. |
storyboard | A usability prototype consisting of a series of screen sketches that permit you to visualize and organize the content and configuration of your website. |
wireframe | Blueprints in web design planning. The purpose is to communicate the order, structure, layout, navigation and organization of content, and NOT the visual aspects of the design such as imagery, color and typography. |
progressive | This type of FLV video streaming is where the HTML contains the required code to playback a FLV file from a server location. The video plays as the file is downloaded and the user doesn't have to wait until the whole file is downloaded. |
server | This video streaming is more secure for the host of the video; though it plays as it streams, the file resides on the streaming server and is not downloaded while it is played. |