Book description
When it comes to building professional websites, Dreamweaver CS4 is capable of doing more than any other web design program -- including previous versions of Dreamweaver. But the software's sophisticated features aren't simple. Dreamweaver CS4: The Missing Manual will help you master this program quickly, so you can bring stunning, interactive websites to life.
Under the expert guidance of bestselling author and teacher David McFarland, you'll learn how to build professional-looking websites quickly and painlessly. McFarland has loaded the book with over 150 pages of hands-on tutorials to help you create database-enabled PHP pages, use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for cutting-edge design, add XML-based news feeds, include dynamic effects with JavaScript and AJAX, and more. This witty and objective book offers jargon-free language and clear descriptions that will help you:
- Learn how to control the appearance of your web pages with CSS, from the basics to advanced techniques
- Design dynamic database-driven websites, from blogs to product catalogs, and from shopping carts to newsletter signup forms
- Add interactivity to your website with ready-to-use JavaScript programs from Adobe's Spry Framework
- Effortlessly control the many helper files that power your website and manage thousands of pages
- Examine web-page components and Dreamweaver's capabilities with the book's "live examples"
Perfect for beginners who need step-by-step guidance, and for longtime Dreamweaver designers who need a handy reference to the new version, this thoroughly updated edition of our bestselling Missing Manual is your complete guide to designing, organizing, building, and deploying websites. It's the ultimate atlas for Dreamweaver CS4.
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Table of contents
- Dreamweaver CS4: The Missing Manual
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- The Missing Credits
- Introduction
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I. Building a Web Page
- 1. Dreamweaver CS4 Guided Tour
- 2. Adding Text to Your Web Pages
- 3. Text Formatting
- 4. Introducing Cascading Style Sheets
- 5. Links
- 6. Images
- 7. Tables
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II. Building a Better Web Page
- 8. Advanced CSS
- 9. Page Layout
- 10. Under the Hood: HTML
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III. Bringing Your Pages to Life
- 11. Forms
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12. Spry: Creating Interactive Web Pages
- What is Spry?
- Tabbed Panels
- Accordions
- Collapsible Panels
- Spry Tooltips
- Spry Data Sets
- Live View
- 13. Dreamweaver Behaviors
- 14. Flash and Other Multimedia
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IV. Building a Web Site
- 15. Introducing Site Management
- 16. Testing Your Site
- 17. Moving Your Site to the Internet
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V. Dreamweaver CS4 Power
- 18. Snippets and Libraries
- 19. Templates
- 20. Automating Dreamweaver
- 21. Customizing Dreamweaver
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VI. Dynamic Dreamweaver
- 22. Getting Started with Dynamic Web Sites
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23. Adding Dynamic Data to Your Pages
- Retrieving Information
- Adding Dynamic Information
- Displaying Multiple Records
- Recordset Navigation
- Viewing Live Data
- Master Detail Page Set
- Passing Information Between Pages
- Tutorial: Displaying Database Info
- 24. Web Pages that Manipulate Database Records
- 25. Advanced Dynamic Site Features
- 26. Server-Side XML and XSLT
- VII. Appendixes
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Dreamweaver CS4: The Missing Manual
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2008
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596522926
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