
were displaying live sports scores on your page. You could include a Refresh meta tag so that the sports scores refresh every 30, 60, or 90 seconds, for instance. This would offset the user needing to click the browser's Refresh button. Base: You can use the Base tag as a way to point all link references on your page to a single, relative address. Link: Most commonly used with external style sheets and JavaScript files, you can use the Link tag as a way to directly link an external file into your document. Table Tags: Use the table objects to insert a variety of table-based tags including the table, table row, table header, table data, and table caption tags. Frame Tags: Use the frame objects to insert a variety of frame-based tags including frameset, frame, and floating frame tags. You can even use the No Frames tag to define content that should appear if a browser is detected that doesn't support frames. Script Tags: Use the script objects to insert a variety of script-based tags including script or server-side includes. You can even use the No Script tag to define content that should appear if a browser is detected that doesn't support scripts. Application Objects Throughout the second half of this book, you will become increasingly familiar with application objects. Depending on what server technology you're using, the Application Objects category will tailor itself to accommodate features and functionality of a specific technology. To prove this point, I'll briefly create a sample ASP.NET site. As you can see from Figure 2.26 (before) and Figure 2.27 (ASP.NET site), the Application Objects category looks slightly different before I created the ASP.NET site than afterwards. Figure 2.26. The Application Objects category in the Insert bar when working with a normal HTML file. [View full size image] Figure 2.27. The Application Objects category in the insert bar when working with an ASP.NET file. Also notice the new ASP.NET objects category. [View full size image] It's also important to notice that, depending on the server technology you decide to use, a new category appears to support the particular technology. Again, this topic is covered in much more detail in the second half of the book. Flash Elements The Flash elements category allows you to add Macromedia Flash components directly into your document. Dreamweaver ships with one component that lets you create a feature-rich interactive slideshow directly in your web page. Other Flash elements can be downloaded from Macromedia's Exchange at http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm. Favorites As you familiarize yourself with using the objects bars, you'll quickly begin to realize that you're using some objects more than others. When this happens, you'll want to create object favorites and store them in the Favorites category, making them easy to reference. To create a favorite object, follow these steps: 1. Switch to the Favorite objects category. A message in the bar instructs you to right-click the bar to customize Favorite objects. 2. Right-click the bar as the instructions indicate and select Customize Favorites. 3. The Customize Favorite Objects dialog appears.