Dreamweaver MX 2004: The Missing Manual by David McFarland This errata page lists errors outstanding in the most recent printing. If you have technical questions or error reports, you can send them to booktech@oreilly.com. Please specify the printing date of your copy. This page was updated November 9, 2005. Here's a key to the markup: [page-number]: serious technical mistake {page-number}: minor technical mistake : important language/formatting problem (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification Confirmed errors: {8} 3rd paragraph; In the "About These Arrows" section: It reads: "Open the System Folder (arrow) Preferences (arrow) Remote Access folder." That's shorthand for a much longer instruction that directs you to open three nested folders in sequence, like this: "On your hard drive, you'll find a folder called System. Open that. Inside the System folder is a folder called Library; double-click it to open it. Inside that folder is yet another one called Fonts. Double-click to open it, too." while the last five sentences of that section SHOULD read: That's shorthand for a much longer instruction that directs you to open three nested folders in sequence, like this: "On your hard drive, you'll find a folder called System. Open that. Inside the System folder is a folder called Preferences; double- click it to open it. Inside that folder is yet another one called Remote Access. Double-click to open it, too." (27) # 5. 2nd patagraph; Reference to (see the box on page 24) SHOULD BE (see the box on page 25) (32) Step 7. (In the title field...); Step 7 says: ... type Advertise with the National Exasperater." it should say: ... type Advertise with The National Exasperater." (to make it consistent with the screenshot on page 36) (39) Step 12 Select the words "National Exasperater" ... should be: Select the words "The National Exasperater" ... (40) first line; To make the screen shot (figure 1-18) page 42 match the text, change first line of page 40 to "type square Ad" instead of "type Square Button" (40) Point #19; First sentence reads: "...and not Heading 2, its still retains the style...." but should read: "...and not Heading 2, it still retains the style...." {44}, step 5 toward the top of the page, in the parenthetical, "(or choose Edit-->Preview in Browser and...." should read: "(or choose File-->Preview in Browser and...." {44} Pagraph 2 under "Phase 6: Finishing the Page"; 'same importance as the "Square Button" paragraph heading above it....' should be 'same importance as the "Square Ad" paragraph heading above it....' also in the very last sentence on page 44 ("Square Button" vs. "Square Ad"). (46) Point #17; The line reads: Type The sales staff at the National Exasperater... For consistency, it should read: Type The sales staff at The National Exasperater... The "the" before National Exasperater on Page 47, Point 26, should, also, be capitalized for the same reason. (57) In Figure 2-4; The second sentance (starting "As they attempted..."), after the comma states "the noticed" it should be "they noticed". (83) Up To Speed Font Convergence; The Windows 2000 URL is incorrect. Shows www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/win200.htm when the correct link is www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/win2000.htm (88) end of fourth paragraph; "(To change the name, see page Figure 3-12.)" Should have the word "page" deleted. (88) Figure 3-11, screenshot; "Headling using style4" Should read "Headline using style4" (101) Figure 4-4, First Sentence; In this figure, the text "Horoscope" is ... should be: In this figure, the text "Horoscopes" is ... (122) Last sentence in 2nd paragraph under Adding a Border heading.; Gramatical error. Sentence reads: ... and resize handles, the better to see the results ... Should read: ...and resize handles, to better see the results ... (128) 5th paragraph; "(see Figure 5-10)" should refer to Figure 5-12 ?135? 3rd paragraph; Insert Interactive Images Flash Buttons is Insert Media Flash Buttons (for Mac) ?138? paragraph 4; Insert Interactive Images Flash Text is Insert Media Flash Text (for Mac ) {158} 1st paragraph; "If your page has three different Heading 1 (

) paragraphs, and you want the third heading to have a different style than the other two, you're out of luck. The only way to remove the formatting is to delete the

style altogether..." In fact, you can add a class to a specific instance of the h1 tag, and the class style will override the tag style. For example, the third heading 1 tag can read:

...

The class styles will take precedence over the tag styles, but any tag styles that don't conflict with the class styles will still apply. {190-191} sec 17; Fig 6-27 does not look like it says it should (details for bottom border are illustrated as left) (207) First paragraph, second sentence under heading Table Dimensions; ... in the Fixed and Height fields. should be: ... in the Width and Height fields. (240) Tip: under Tabular Data; You can directly import and Excel files into Dreamweaver for Windows... Should read: You can directly import Excel files into Dreamweaver for Windows... (246) Point #2; "2. Make sure the General tab is selected and, in the Category list, select the Basic Page option is selected" should be: "2. Make sure the General tab is selected and, in the Category list, select the Basic Page option" (247) Figure 7-29; If Figure 7-29 on page 247 doesn't look like you're copy of Dreamweaver MX 2004, you may have your preferences set to use HTML instead of CSS for basic styling. To change this choose Edit --> Preferences (Dreamweaver --> Preferences on Mac); select the General category in the Preferences window; and make sure the "Use CSS instead of HTML tags" box is checked. Click the OK button to close the Preferences window and apply the change. Choose Modify --> Page Properties, and the dialog should now look like figure 7-29. {267} First paragraph, last sentence under heading "Creating CSS Styles for Layers".; ... to open the New CSS Style window (see Figure 8-1). should be: ... to open the New CSS Style window (see Figure 8-2). (391), first sentence, first paragraph; Once you've selected this Show Pop-Up Menu from the + (Add Acton) menu... should be: Once you've selected this Show Pop-Up Menu from the + (Add Action) menu... [439] Fig. 13-5; This isn't a picture of the Tag Selector, this is the Image Viewer picture of 13-4 without the callouts. The correct Figure 13-5 is available here - http://examples.oreilly.com/dreammx2004tmm {492} 3. Review the results. Paragraph 1; It says that Dreamweaver displays the results in the Validation panel (Figure 15-4), and it is actually Figure 15-5 on page 493, not Figure 15-4 which is on page 491. {669} Step 10; In step 10, the correct figure should be Figure 21-11.