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Adding
a graphic created with Webstyle to a Dreamweaver or FrontPage document
is a quick and simple process. And it's just as easy to edit
it later if you decide to change it!
This
tutorial will demonstrate how to insert a Webstyle NavBar into Dreamweaver,
but the process is the same for any of the other Webstyle graphic types
and very similar if you are using FrontPage.
Open your
Dreamweaver document and place your cursor where you'd like your graphic
to appear on the page (it can be a new or existing page, but if new we recommend saving the
page before you continue).
Once
you have created and saved your NavBar in Webstyle, it will be placed
exactly where your cursor is. Of course you can subsequently move it about, just like any other graphic.
When
you installed Webstyle a new 'Webstyle' option was added to the insert
menu of Dreamweaver / FrontPage and a new icon was added to the Dreamweaver
toolbox. Now if you go to the insert menu and select Webstyle and then
NavBar, Webstyle will start and open directly at the preview page for
NavBar designs.
Now
you can customize the Webstyle template graphic by clicking the buttons down the left
hand side, which will open the editing dialogs - text, color, size etc. As you make changes
the image will be instantly updated in the preview window.
Click on
Save, give your graphic a name - note you can also save your graphics
separately from your HTML if required - and click Save & Exit. Webstyle will
close and the NavBar will be inserted into your Dreamweaver or FrontPage
document along with all the necessary HTML and JavaScript.
And
here you can see the final result with the NavBar inserted into the
page at the original cursor position.
You
can edit the graphic again by simply selecting it and clicking Edit
in the Property Inspector in Dreamweaver, or double-clicking on
the graphic within FrontPage.
It
really is as simple as that, in just a couple of minutes you can insert
a customized NavBar complete with menus into your Dreamweaver/FrontPage
document, without having to worry about copying across the graphics,
the HTML or the JavaScript - all that has been automatically created
and placed into the Dreamweaver folder.
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