Operation Manual

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USING DREAMWEAVER
Adding content to pages
Last updated 3/28/2012
Resize handles appear at the bottom and right sides of the element and in the lower-right corner. If resize handles don’t
appear, click somewhere other than the element you want to resize and then reselect it, or click the appropriate tag in
the tag selector to select the element.
2 Resize the element by doing one of the following:
• To adjust the width of the element, drag the selection handle on the right side.
• To adjust the height of the element, drag the bottom selection handle.
• To adjust the width and the height of the element at the same time, drag the corner selection handle.
• To preserve the element’s proportions (its width-to-height ratio) as you adjust its dimensions, Shift-drag the corner
selection handle.
• To adjust the width and height of an element to a specific size (for example, 1 x 1 pixel), use the Property inspector
to enter a numeric value. Elements can be visually resized to a minimum of 8 x 8 pixels.
3 To return a resized element to its original dimensions, in the Property inspector, delete the values in the W and H
text boxes, or click the Reset Size button in the image Property inspector.
Revert an image to its original size
❖ Click the Reset size button in the image Property inspector.
Resample a resized image
1 Resize the image as described above.
2 Click the Resample button in the image Property inspector.
Note: You cannot resample image placeholders or elements other than bitmap images.
Insert an image placeholder
An image placeholder is a graphic you use until final artwork is ready to be added to a web page. You can set the
placeholder’s size and color, as well as provide it with a text label.
1 In the Document window, place the insertion point where you want to insert a placeholder graphic.
2 Select Insert > Image Objects > Image Placeholder.
3 For Name (Optional), enter text you want to appear as a label for the image placeholder. Leave the text box blank
if you do not want a label to appear. The name must begin with a letter and can contain only letters and numbers;
spaces and high ASCII characters are not allowed.
4 For Width and Height (Required), type a number to set the image size in pixels.
5 For Color (Optional), do one of the following to apply a color:
• Use the color picker to select a color.
• Enter the color’s hexadecimal value (for example, #FF0000).
• Enter a web-safe color name (for example, red).
6 For Alternate Text (Optional), enter text to describe the image for viewers using a text-only browser.
Note: An image tag is automatically inserted into the HTML code containing an empty src attribute.
7 Click OK.