Articles in the ‘Dreamweaver’ Category

JavaScript is a well-established scripting language which creates code that can execute both an HTML page loads and after it has loaded. It is very efficient since it can run independently on the computers of the visitors to your web site. Thus freeing up your server to do other things. It is so widely used on web sites that, though it is possible for a user to disable JavaScript within their browser settings, most people will need to leave it active if they are to interact with the sites they visit. Adobe Dreamweaver allows web developers to add JavaScript to their pages by using what it refers to as “behaviors”.

The term HTML refers to the code that gives commands to the computer, telling it how to display text on a website. It may not be clearly understood by a non coder, however, the concept of commands directing the display is easy to comprehend. Hypertext markup language 5, HTML5, is the set of commands that provide communication between the computer and the browser. An experienced coder has a working knowledge of HTML and is able to use that to bring the design to the finished page.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) has become as pivotal a technology in the building of websites as HTML. Originally, CSS was mainly used for defining the appearance of text (font, size, colour, etc.). However, with the improvement of browser compatibility with the CSS specification, CSS is now the recommended method of controlling all aspects of the presentation of HTML documents within the browser window.