Phần lớn các thiết lập Dreamweaver được điều khiển thông qua hộp thoại Preferences. Bạn có thể mở Preferences bằng cách chọn Edit ➪ Preferences (Dreamweaver ➪ Preferences) hoặc bằng cách sử dụng phím tắt Ctrl + U (Command + U). Trong thời hạn Preferences, bạn tìm thấy 20 đối tượng khác nhau được liệt kê ở phía bên trái của màn hình. Khi bạn chuyển từ một trong những thể loại khác | Part II Designing and Crafting Basic Pages continued 12. In the Property inspector choose imageLeft from the Style drop-down list. 13. You can also simply drag images directly onto the page from the Files panel. In the panel expand the images folder and drag to the left of the third heading Room to grow. 14. If the Image Tag Accessibility Attributes dialog box appears enter Under construction in the Alternative Text field. 15. In the Property inspector choose imageRight from the Style drop-down list. Each of the methods demonstrated works well use the one you re most comfortable with when adding graphics to a page. Optimizing and altering images It s the rare graphic that integrates into the Web page design unaltered. Digital photographs often need to be cropped and almost always need to be reduced either in dimensions file size or both. Other images may need to be sharpened to achieve an immediate effect or lightened to fit better into the page palette. Dreamweaver provides several pathways to the perfect Web image Image editing within Dreamweaver Without even leaving Dreamweaver you can crop resample sharpen and alter brightness and contrast of any selected GIF or JPG graphic. You don t even have to have a graphics editor such as Adobe Photoshop or Fireworks installed. You ll see how shortly. 368 Chapter 8 Inserting Images Graphic optimization within Dreamweaver For more sophisticated image operations without full-scale editing choose Edit Image Settings. A dialog box opens within Dreamweaver where you can compare different outcomes before committing to a scaling resampling or conversion operation. You explore this option a little later in the Employing the Optimize Image Settings Command section. Round-trip editing from Dreamweaver to your graphics editor For the most complex image modifications use an external graphics editor such as Adobe Photoshop or Fireworks. Dreamweaver sends files to the editor of your choosing. Cross-Reference If
