Adobe GoLive 5 Advanced Level Slides

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Advanced Level Course
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Site Extras
Site Extras consist of four categories

• Stationeries
• Site Trash
• Designs
• Components

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Stationeries
Stationeries are HTML files that are created for
use as templates.
The stationery, or template, can contain all the
common Elements that are required for every page
in the site.
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Site Trash

• Files in GoLive can be deleted using
• two methods
• Site Trash
• System Trash (Recycle Bin)

When using GoLives Site Trash folder, the
deleted files are moved to a temporary location
in the Extras tab.
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Components
A Component is an HTML document that holds
objects and elements, or HTML snippets, that can
be used repeatedly throughout the site.
When a component is modified and saved, GoLive
automatically updates all pages containing
the component.
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Custom
The Custom tab is a collection of reusable
"snippets" of HTML code.
The snippets can be imported from open site
pages, documents in other applications, or even
from other sites.
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Designs
Multiple designs of the same site can be stored
in the Design tab of the Site window.
GoLives Design feature enables you to create the
structure of your site, which can include
content and links.
Page hierarchy can be built to show files that
are Parent Sibling Child
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Sections
Sections are a collection of Design pages.
Sections can have their own folder, stationery,
and even sub-sections.
Sections can be a sub-section of a page.
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Linking in Design View
When each page is selected, a Point-and-Shoot
button is displayed at the bottom right of the
icon. This enables the linking between pages
in the Design window.
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Groups and Annotations
A design group is made up of items and
pages, Which are enclosed by a rectangle.
Annotations are notes that are attached to
a specific page.
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Staging the Design
Staging the site directs GoLive to copy the
design files to the folder, or folders, specified.
When staging the site design, a minimum of
one pending link must be created.
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Design Views
Options for viewing the site design in the View
Controller are set in the Design tab of
the palette.
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Plug-ins
Plug-ins enable the browser to play the audio
and/or video files inserted into a Web page.
The plug-in placeholders are Generic Flash
QuickTime Real SVG
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Audio
Audio files are generally aiff, wav, or mp3.
The Real audio console is determined by the
controls in the Inspector's Real tab
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Video
Video files are movie files created in such
applications as Flash, QuickTime, and LiveMotion.
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Actions
An action is triggered by an interactive event
made by the user as the mouse is moved around the
Web page.
GoLive features three types of actions

• Onload event actions
• Link actions
• Timeline editor actions

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OnLoad Event Actions
The onload event action is triggered when a Web
page is loaded.
The actions are executed before anything else
is activated in the page.
These actions are inserted into the ltheadgt
section of the page.
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Link Actions
A Link action is applied to an item that is hyper
linked.
Link actions are
Go last Page Goto Link Navigate History Open
Window
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Slide Show
A slide show requires all images to be the exact
same pixel dimension.
The image file type must be the same, that is,
all JPG, or all GIF, not a mixture of both.
The images must all be located in the same folder
as the starting Image.
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The Timeline Editor
Timelines control the visibility, movement,
speed, and positioning of the floating box.
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Keyframes
A keyframe is the marker on the time track that
indicates a change to a floating box.
A change can be the position of the floating box,
it's visibility, or it's layer order.
GoLive calculates the floating box's position in
each frame between the keyframes. This is
called "tweening".
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Animation and Action Triggers
Actions can be used to trigger an animation, and
also an animation can be used to trigger an
Action.
An animation triggered by an Action is the result
of an action taken by the user
An animation triggering an Action makes something
happen.
The Action Track in the Timeline Editor is used
to control an animation used to trigger an Action
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QuickTime Movies
QuickTime sound and movie files can be edited
directly in GoLive.
The QuickTime Toolbar
The Movie Track Editor.
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Create a Style Sheet
Cascading Style Sheets are made up of tags, which
contain formatting instructions.
Style Sheets specifies formatting, such as font,
size, margins, color, borders, character and line
spacing.
There are two types of style sheets internal,
and external.
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Style Elements
The three types of style elements selectors,
Class, Tag, and ID.
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CSS Properties
The CSS Inspector features eight tabs for
configuring the style properties
Basic Font TextBlock Position Border
Background List Others
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Apply Style Sheets
CSS Styles are applied based on the
particular selector, classes an ID.
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Find and Replace
The Find and Replace feature in GoLive has three
tabs to enable site-wide changes.

• Find and Replace
• Element
• in Site

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Clean Up Site
GoLives Clean Up Site is a handy feature to
clean out unused fontsets, colors, and links.
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Import a Site
Sites can be imported into GoLive from a local
folder on your hard drive, or from an FTP server.
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Errors and Site Reports
Error, or warning, symbols areGreen bug Stop
sign Question Mark Check mark
The Site report searches the entire site with
results based upon the specified criteria.
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Add Dates and Spellcheck
The Date and Time Stamp function enables users
to see when the page was last modified.
Spellchecking a site or page is handled in a
similar manner to that used in a word processor.
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The FTP Connection
The Web Server information can be entered into
the Network Preferences, for easy access when it
is required to make a FTP connection.
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Synchronized Files
GoLive features a powerful system of keeping the
files stored on the local hard drive synchronized
with the files on the Web server.
When a site is loaded for the first time, all
files are uploaded. Once the files are on the
server, any modified files on the local hard
drive can be automatically uploaded to the server
without having to be uploaded individually.
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