MACROMEDIA STUDIO 8-EXPLORING STUDIO 8 User manual

Exploring Studio 8

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Acknowledgments

Project Management: Jennifer Rowe, Sheila McGinn

Writing: Jay Armstrong, Charles Nadeau, Jennifer Rowe, David Sullivan, Jon Michael Varese

Managing Editor: Rosana Francescato

Editing: Evelyn Eldridge, Rosana Francescato, Mark Nigara, Anne Szabla

Production Management: Patrice O’Neill

Media Design and Production: Adam Barnett, Aaron Begley, Paul Benkman, John Francis, Geeta Karmarkar, Masayo Noda,

Paul Rangel, Arena Reed, Mario Reynoso

Special thanks to Maureen Keating, Jennifer Taylor, Mike Downey, Greg Clausen, Doug Wolens, Melissa Baerwald, Alan

Musselman, David Acala, Jason Wylie

First Edition: September 2005

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Contents

PART 1: GETTING STARTED

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

What you can do with Studio 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Installing Studio 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Activating your Studio products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Registering your Studio products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Chapter 1: Learning Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Getting the most from the Studio documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Using the Studio help systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Chapter 2: Studio Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Dreamweaver basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Flash basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Fireworks basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102

Contribute basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

FlashPaper basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Chapter 3: Web Development Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

About the web development workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Planning your website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122

Setting up the development environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123

Planning page design and layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125

Creating content assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128

Assembling, testing, and deploying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130

Maintaining and updating your site. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133

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PART 2: SETTING UP YOUR ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING

YOUR PAGE DESIGN

Chapter 4: Tutorial: Setting Up Your Site and Project Files . . . 137

Learn about Dreamweaver sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Set up your project files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Define a local folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Chapter 5: Tutorial: Creating Page Mock-ups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Review your task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Create and save a new document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Import and place images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Create a composite of the content area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Place text and images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Export the image for the web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Chapter 6: Tutorial: Creating a Table-based Page Layout . . . . 163

Examine the design comp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Create and save a new page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Insert tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Set table properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Insert an image placeholder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Add color to the page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

PART 3: CREATING CONTENT ASSETS

Chapter 7: Tutorial: Handling Photographs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Review your task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Batch process large image files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Compose the images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Preview and export the images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191

View the final optimized images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Chapter 8: Tutorial: Creating a Page Banner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Review your task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Add a background and place the logo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Organize your objects with layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Create a contrasting background for the logo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Create an outline around the banner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207

Create a slanted edge effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Add a tag line to the banner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Export an optimized image file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211

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Chapter 9: Tutorial: Building Your First Flash Application . . . . 215

Review your task. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .216

Examine the completed application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .216

Create a new document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .218

Create symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .221

Edit a symbol Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Add actions to frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Add labels to frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Add motion tweens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Edit the main Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .231

Create the border . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Add a symbol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Add a text box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Add the movie clip to the Stage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Add a button component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Add ActionScript code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244

Publish your document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .251

Chapter 10: Tutorial: Building a Video Player

(Flash Professional only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Review your task. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Examine the completed application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

Encode a video file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Create a new Flash document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Add a media component. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .261

Publish your document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

The next steps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

PART 4: ASSEMBLING AND DEPLOYING YOUR WEBSITE

Chapter 11: Tutorial: Adding Content to Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Locate your files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Review your task. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Insert images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272

Insert and play a Flash file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279

Insert Flash Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Insert text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285

Create links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290

Preview your page in a browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

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Chapter 12: Tutorial: Formatting Your Page with CSS . . . . . . 295

Locate your files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .296

Review your task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .297

Learn about CSS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .298

Create a new style sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Attach a style sheet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Explore the CSS Styles panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Create a new CSS rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .307

Apply a class style to text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

Format the navigation bar text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

(Optional) Center the contents of the page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Chapter 13: Tutorial: Publishing Your Site. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Learn about remote sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .325

Define a remote folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .326

Upload your local files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .329

Troubleshoot the remote folder setup (optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Chapter 14: Tutorial: Setting Up Your Website

for Contribute Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Review your task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .334

Learn about website connections and administration. . . . . . . . . . . . .334

Connect to a website as an administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .335

Set administrative settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .336

Create a user role. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .337

Edit a role’s settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .338

Create a connection key and send it to users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

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PART 1

Getting Started

In this part, you’ll familiarize yourself with the Macromedia Studio 8

software suite and learn everything you need to do before you begin

building your website.

This part contains the following sections:

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Learning Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Studio Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Web Development Workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

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Introduction

This manual introduces you to Macromedia Studio 8, an integrated web

development suite that includes Macromedia Dreamweaver 8,

Macromedia Flash Professional 8, Macromedia Fireworks 8, Macromedia

Contribute 3.1, and Macromedia FlashPaper 2.

This manual gives an overview of the products, introduces conceptual

information about website development, and shows you how to build a

simple but functional website through a series of tutorials.

The information in this manual is designed for beginners, especially users

who are unfamiliar with one or all of the products in the Studio 8 family.

Intermediate and advanced users can benefit by learning recommended

techniques.

This chapter contains the following sections:

What you can do with Studio 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Installing Studio 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Activating your Studio products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Registering your Studio products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

NOTE

This manual is not a comprehensive reference for all of the features of the

Studio products. For in-depth information, see each product’s help

system. To use a product’s help system, in the product’s Help menu,

select Using Product Name.

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10 Introduction

What you can do with Studio 8

Studio 8 includes five Macromedia products: Dreamweaver, Flash,

Fireworks, Contribute, and FlashPaper. This section provides a brief

overview of each product.

This section covers the following topics:

■“What you can do with Dreamweaver” on page 10

■“What you can do with Flash” on page 11

■“What you can do with Fireworks” on page 12

■“What you can do with Contribute” on page 13

■“What you can do with FlashPaper” on page 13

What you can do with Dreamweaver

The visual editing features in Macromedia Dreamweaver let you quickly

create web pages without writing a line of code. You can view all your site

elements or assets and drag them from an easy-to-use panel directly into a

document. You can streamline your development workflow by creating and

editing images in Macromedia Fireworks or another graphics application,

and then import them directly into Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver also

provides tools that make it easy to add Macromedia Flash assets to

web pages.

In addition to drag-and-drop features that help you build web pages,

Dreamweaver provides a full-featured coding environment that includes

code-editing tools such as code coloring, tag completion, a coding toolbar,

and code collapse. Also provided is language reference material about

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JavaScript, ColdFusion Markup Language

(CFML), and other languages. Macromedia Roundtrip HTML technology

imports your hand-coded HTML documents without reformatting the

code; you can then reformat code with your preferred formatting style.

Dreamweaver also lets you build dynamic, database-driven web

applications using server technologies such as CFML, ASP.NET, ASP, JSP,

and PHP. If you prefer working with XML data, Dreamweaver provides

tools that let you easily create XSLT pages, attach XML files, and display

XML data on your web pages.

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