Adobe Dreamweaver

Unit 14. Others features (I)

Let’s look at a set of elements that are usually found in web sites, such as marquees, counters, and update datse.

Marquees

Marquees are text, images, or a combination of them. They can be moved inside the window in a linear way. Below we have an example of a marquee.

Welcome to Dog and Cats 

Marquees cannot be inserted with the Dreamweaver graphics editor, you need to do it through code.

To create a marquee you need to insert the <MARQUEE> and </MARQUEE> labels. Between this labels you need to introduce the elements that you want inside the marquee.

You can also specify some of the characteristics of the marquee. The marquee is moved from right to left indefinitely by default, but you can make this properties vary if you want. For example, if you write <marquee behavior=”slide”>, the marquee will only move once and then will stop.

If you write <marquee behavior=”alternate”>, instead of moving continuously, the marquee will move from side to side in the window, like bouncing in the extremes, just as it happened in the previous example whose code you can see next:

<marquee behavior=”alternate”>

Welcome to Dogs and Cats

<img src=”images/logo_animales.gif”>

</marquee>

Dreamweaver allows you to easily insert the last date of update of the pages.

With Dreamweaver, when you modify a page in which this type of date has been inserted, it is automatically updated with the system date.

It is convenient to insert the update date when the page contains constantly updated data, this way the users know the last data of modification. In the cases when the update time is great it is worth not to include this feature.

To insert this date you need to go to Insert menu, and then the Date option.

In the new window it’s possible to establish the date format, and the option of automatically updating when the file is modified and saved.

Horizontal Rule

Horizontal rule is an element used to separate sections inside a document. An horizontal rule is just an horizontal line.

To insert a rule you need to go to the Insert menu, then the HTML option, and then the Horizontal rule option.

The Properties inspector for the rules is as follows:

You can modify the rules appearance through its fields. Next there are 4 examples of horizontal rules.





These rules only differenciate in H (height) and Shading fields. The first two, for example, don’t have the Shading field activated, while the other two do.

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