How to add and change the styling of a horizontal rule HR in Dreamweaver.

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38 lessons / 4 hours

Overview

Hi there, my name is Dan and together we’re going to build a portfolio website using Adobe Dreamweaver.

We’ll use Dreamweaver's handy templating tools to make updates to our site super easy. We’ll create our very own mobile 'burger menu' from scratch learning some basic Javascript & jQuery.

I am an Adobe Certified Instructor and better yet I work closely with Adobe themselves to develop their own online help videos. I am also a Dreamweaver speaker at the huge Adobe Max conference in Las Vegas 2017. I’m even inside your version of Dreamweaver right now... go on try it... open Dreamweaver > Go to Help > quick tutorial - I’m right there!This course is for beginners. You do not need any previous knowledge in Dreamweaver or web design experience. We will use Dreamweaver ‘split’ view so we can use all the good visual tools as well as doing some simple amends down here in the code as well.

In this series we will take this static design from either Illustrator or Photoshop and together, step by step, build everything in HTML, CSS & Javascript. We will make our own navigation. We will make adjustments so that everything looks great on different mobile devices.We will work with beautiful fonts & colours & even add Google Analytics to our site to get amazing information about exactly who visits your site.
 Now web design can sometimes be tricky so I am here to help - just message me if you get stuck. There are also exercise files so you can follow along. I even save a full copy of the website at the end of every video so that you can check yours again mine if you’re is not working quite right.

Check out this link here www.byolisawesome.com, for the site we build together. Let's get excited about finally being able to build a website like a professional web designer. See you in class.


What are the requirements?

  • You will need a copy of Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2017 or above. A free trial can be downloaded from Adobe.
  • No previous web design skills are needed.
  • No previous Dreamweaver skills are needed.

What am I going to get from this course?

  • 39 lectures 3+ hours of well-structured content!
  • You'll learn to build a responsive portfolio website from scratch.
  • Learn how to take a design from Illustrator & create a professional website.
  • How to use templates in Dreamweaver.
  • Create mobile, tablet & desktop versions of the website.
  • Build our own custom responsive navigation with burger menu.
  • Introduction to Javascript & jQuery.
  • How to publish your website to the internet.
  • Ways to preview your designs straight to your mobile device.
  • How to get the most from your portfolio Images.
  • How to use beautiful web fonts in your designs.
  • You will get the finished files so you never fall behind.
  • Downloadable exercise files & cheat sheet.
  • Forum support from me and the rest of the BYOL crew.
  • All the techniques used by professional website designers.

What is the target audience?

  • YES: This course is for beginners. Aimed at people new to the world of web design. No previous Dreamweaver experience is necessary.
  • NO: This course is NOT suited to people experienced in using HTML & CSS.

Course duration approx 4 hours + your study.
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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Hi there, in this tutorial we're going to make this white line. It's got a horizontal rule, it's not hard, but there are some default styling that we want to go and change afterwards. So let's go do that now in Dreamweaver.

First of all, let's put in the Horizontal Rule. It's called HR tag, that's what they call it. So, I'm going to select my H1, which is my Heading1, because I want it just after this, and I'm going to go to 'Insert', 'HTML', and all the way down the bottom right, down the bottom is one called Horizontal Rule. Let's click on that. And, slide down, there he is there. Actually mine ended up right in the middle of my text, I'm going to undo. If that happens to you, click on it, click on the 'H1', make sure it's selected down here in your Tag Selector, and then go and click Horizontal Rule. I want to go after, please, and then, there he is there. There's my Horizontal Rule.

Now I'm going to preview this in a browser because by default the Horizontal Rule comes with some ugliness. So let's go check it in a browser. Now, it's a little hard to see, but it's actually what's called Inset, or Bevel and Emboss for the Photoshop people. If I zoom in loads you will start to see the styling on it. So down here, there he is there. You can see, it's kind of half white and half gray, and kind of got this little chiseled end here. I don't like it, you might be like, "You kind of see that." So you can save time, and just move on to the next tutorial. I don't like it, and I want to Style it. So, we're going to Style this HR, that's what's considered the Horizontal Rule. It's one of the few tags that doesn't have a beginning and an ending, like an H1 has an open and a close, an HR doesn't, like this BR tag, there are few that don't.

So, let's go and Style it, under CSS Designer 'Styles', 'Global', 'Selectors'. It's going to be called 'HR'. And because it's my pre-existing ones where we didn’t write it, like the H1, kind of something already pre-existing in HTML, we don't have to put the period in front. Something to do with Border. So Border, we're going to say, Style by default, it's inset, we're going to say, 'Solid', please. Color, I think it's like off-white by default, I'm going to make it white. And then I'm going to 'Save All', preview in my browser. And see what I like. Is it thin enough? You can play around with the width here. And put it down to 1 point or play with the pixels, I'm happy with the way it is.

All right, that is how to create a Line. It's a long tutorial for just a line but we want it to be a pretty line. And there we go. All right, on to the next tutorial.

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