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Dreamweaver has lots of groovy ways to create buttons right in the program, and also with a little help from Photoshop. Here are three ways:
1. Rollovers - Create two small "banners", about 200 wide x 50 high, in Photoshop. Make them say the same thing but use two different colors. Here are my two examples:

Next, open a Dreamweaver page and put your cursor where you want to insert your rollover image (or button). Click on Insert > Image Objects > Rollover Image. This opens a window which looks like this:

Browse for the image you want to show up first next to the "original image" line, and then browse for the rollover image. To make the images a button you browse for the link next to "when clicked, Go to URL:". click ok and you will see only the first image in place. You have to view in browser to see the actual rollover work, so save the page then go to File > Preview in Browser, or click on the little "globe" on the top of the page menu. Here's what the two examples above look like as a rollover (I didn't make them link to anything):

2. Flash Text: Put your cursor where you want the text to turn into a "button". Click on Insert > Media > Flash Text. This window pops up:

Choose (L to R, top to bottom): The font, the size font, color font, ROLLOVER color (this is important as the text will turn this color when the mouse rolls over the text. Make sure the text color and rollover color are contrasting enough with the background color to be read). Then type in the text in the window, click on "browse" next to the "link" line and browse to the page you want to link to (or type in the website, remember to put in the http://www). click OK and this is the kind of you'll get (again I did not make it actually link to anything).

3. Flash Button - Very similar to Flash text except you can choose a little "canned" button graphic to use with your text. Click on Insert > Media > Flash Button and this window pops up:

flash button

It looks like this when done: In this case I did link it to a page of book reviews just to show you it is easy. See the "link" line? I pasted in the URL there. I also made the "target" be "_blank" so it would generate a new window when I click on the button.

 

 

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