Adding copy to Dreamweaver

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34 lessons / 3 hours

Overview

Dreamweaver (and web design in general) is such a hard program to teach yourself. We know, because as Dreamweaver trainers we have all taught ourselves. We wish we had a resource like this when we were learning.

Hand coding a website from scratch is now a thing of the past. Web designers use tools like Dreamweaver to a lot of the heavy lifting. We imagine this is your first website build and we're glad we're here to help make this process a little less troublesome. 

Who should use this?

Anyone that is brand new to Dreamweaver and anyone brand new to web design in general. If you're reasonably experienced in web design you might find this course a little slow going.

What do you need?

  • You'll need a laptop (Mac or PC)
  • Dreamweaver CC installed. Dreamweaver can be downloaded from theAdobe website here.

Can I use this tutorial with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, CS5 or CS6?

No. Unfortunately there were some fundamental changes in the Dreamweaver CC update that makes CC and previous versions very different.

Remember you can download Dreamweaver CC free for 30 days. Don't worry - after your free trial has expired your files will still be updatable using any other web design program.

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Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Welcome to this Dreamweaver tutorial. My name is Daniel Walter Scott,  and I'm a trainer here at Bring Your Own Laptop. Uh, this course is for people that are new web design  and you do Dreamweaver. And the topic for this, uh, course, we are going  to be looking at adding text to a website. So it sounds easy, okay? But what will happen is you will get texts that'll come from  a Word document or it might come from an email  or from another website  and you need to copy into Dreamweaver.

Now, what happens though is that a lot  of styling can come along for the ride  and can cause you lots of problems in your  code for Dreamweaver. So what we wanna do is show you how to remove any styling  that might be attached to the text  before you bring it into Dreamweaver. As an example. I've got a Word document here. Okay? And you can see in this one, somebody's gone through  and added things like headings and there's a hyperlink there  and some other colors  and fonts, and there's a table there as well.

So if I, for example, copy it, so I've selected all the text  and go into edit copy and I jump back into Dreamweaver  and I remove this bit of text, okay? From an earlier tutorial and paste this in here. You can see it brings through the big times aroma  with the heading the hyperlinks. There's a table here,  some more hyperlinks and different fonts. Now that can cause me lots  of problems, especially when I'm new. I dunno how to remove a lot of this stuff.

So it's best to remove all the  formatting before you bring it in. So I'm gonna go to Edit Undo, and I'm gonna try that again. Now what we need to do is what they call washing the text. So we need to strip out all the formatting. So we use, um, a little bit of a step. So we go from, uh, say it's going from Word,  in this case, um, on a Mac.

We're gonna copy and paste this into a program  called Text Edit. Okay? Text edit's on every Macintosh computer. It's built in there. You might have  to go off and try and find it. It's called Text Edit.

And if you're on  a pc, it's slightly easier. You use something called Notepad,  which is built into every pc. Find that bit of program for me as well, okay? And what we do is we copy it. Okay? So I'm gonna go to edit copy, select the little text,  copied it, and I'm moving to text edit.

Okay? And I'm gonna make a new document  and I'm paste it in here. You see on a Mac, it still  brings through all the formatting. So there's one extra step I need to go to Format  and go to Make Plain Text. You'll notice once I click okay, is that it just reduces it  to some really, um, basic text. Now, if using a pc, you don't need to go to that format,  make play text option.

What happens? A notepad. If you paste it straight in there,  it will look like the straightaway. Nice, simple, plain text. Now what we're gonna do now is select the Law again, go  to edit copy, then move to Dreamweaver,  and then go to Edit Paste. And you can see it's brought through the text,  but it's removed all the headings and the styles  and the links, okay?

So it's nice plain text. Now, and this is the best way to move any text. So it might be bringing in text  From Word. It might  be bringing in texts from an email  or from another website. Always wash it, okay? It may not look like it's got any styling on it,  but it might bring some things through.

And it's best when you're beginning just  to make sure it's nice and simple. Alright, so that's the end of this tutorial. Let's, let's move to the next one. All.
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