CHAPTER 5

Tutorial: Adding Content 

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to Pages

This tutorial shows you how to add content to web pages in Macromedia 

Dreamweaver 8. You can add many different kinds of content to web 

pages, including graphics, Macromedia Flash files, Macromedia Flash 

Video files, and text, to name a few. After you've added content to your 

pages, you can preview your work in a browser so that you can see what it 

will look like on the web.

In this tutorial, you will complete the following tasks:

Locate your files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Review your task  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Insert images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Insert and play a Flash file  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Insert Flash Video  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Insert text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Create links  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Preview your page in a browser  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Locate your files

In this tutorial, you'll begin with the table based page layout (index.html) 

that you created in 

Chapter 4,  Tutorial: Creating a Table based Page 

Layout. 

 If you did not complete that tutorial, you can either complete it 

before proceeding, or you can open the finished version of the tutorial and 

begin with that. 

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