March 2009
Beginner to intermediate
1321 pages
46h 24m
English
Content preview from Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS4 Bible
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Part I
Laying the Groundwork in Dreamweaver CS4
Summary
Building any Web site—whether static or dynamic—is half craft and half art, and Dreamweaver is
the perfect tool for blending these often dueling disciplines. Dreamweaver’s visual editor enables
quick and artful page creation, and at the same time, its integrated text editors offer the detail-
oriented focus required by programmers. Dreamweaver’s key advantages include the following:
Dreamweaver works the way professional Web developers do, with integrated visual and
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text editors. Dreamweaver won’t convert your code when it’s used with pre-existing Web
pages.
It supports standard HTML commands with easy entry and editing of text, graphics,
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tables, and multimedia elements.
Dreamweaver provides straightforward yet robust connectivity to data sources and access
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to the most popular server models.
It makes cutting-edge features, such as Ajax, Dynamic HTML, and Cascading Style Sheets,
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easy to use.
Dreamweaver connects directly to the most commonly used graphic and motion tools,
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including Photoshop, Fireworks, and Flash.
A supercharged editor features advanced options like code completion and Code Hints.
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With Dreamweaver’s Live Data view, you can construct your page while viewing the actual
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data to be displayed in the online application.
Dreamweaver offers you a variety of reusable server behaviors, JavaScript behaviors, ...
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