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Dreamweaver Article
Dissecting the Halo Template File
Murray R. Summers
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Preparing Your Working Site
- Stripping the Code
- Understanding the Menu
- Discussing the Menu’s Operation/Implementation
- Modifying the Menu
With the Halo layouts, found under Page Designs (CSS), Macromedia has included some stimulating examples of page design and interactivity methods in Dreamweaver MX 2004. The look of the page is attractive and clean, and the operation is functional and fast. Unfortunately, the Dreamweaver help files don’t include instructions on how to modify or adapt these pages, and this has left some users struggling to troubleshoot their derivative sites. In this article, I will describe the details of the menu interactivity on the page, and how you can modify this to suit your needs.
Requirements
To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software and files:
Dreamweaver MX 2004
- A Dreamweaver site already defined and containing the Halo files (you will do this in the article)
- A working file, which you will derive during the article
- A passive comfort level with JavaScript and a good familiarity with HTML methods
About the author
Murray R. Summers is an Adobe Certified Web Site Developer, Dreamweaver Developer, and Community Expert. He has contributed chapters to several books on Dreamweaver and co-authored a book on Dreamweaver Templates. He used to be a technical editor of Roadmap to Macromedia Contribute by Joseph Lowery (Macromedia Press, 2003) and a number of issues of The Missing Manual series for Dreamweaver, including the one for Dreamweaver CS4. He has served as an invited speaker at every TODCON (international) conference since 2001 (missing only 2008). His company, Great Web Sights, has been active in web development since 1998. Murray lives in the rural Philadelphia area with Suzanne, his wife, and Carly, his daughter, who is currently attending Clemson University (go Tigers!).
