Book description
Dreamweaver is the tool most widely used for designing and managing professional-looking websites, but it's a complex program. That's where Dreamweaver CS5.5: The Missing Manual comes in. With its jargon-free explanations, 13 hands-on tutorials, and savvy advice from Dreamweaver expert Dave McFarland, you'll master this versatile program with ease.
- Get A to Z guidance. Go from building your first web page to creating interactive, database-driven sites.
- Build skills as you learn. Apply your knowledge through tutorials and downloadable practice files.
- Create a state-of-the-art website. Use powerful, easy-to-use tools such as CSS3 and Spry effects to build visually rich, fast-loading pages.
- Add instant interactivity. Choose from pre-packaged JavaScript programs to add drop-down menus, tabbed panels, forms, and other features.
- Tap into databases. Connect your site to a database and build pages that dynamically sort and display stored information.
- Go mobile. Build and preview websites for smartphones and tablets.
- Discover hidden tips and tricks. Get undocumented workarounds and shortcuts.
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Table of contents
- Dreamweaver CS5.5: The Missing Manual
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- The Missing Credits
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Introduction
- What Dreamweaver Is All About
- Why Dreamweaver?
- Whatâs New in Dreamweaver CS5.5
- HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript 101
- Document Types
- Of Tags and Properties
- XHTML, Too
- And HTML5, As Well
- Add Style with Cascading Style Sheets
- Add Interactivity with JavaScript
- The Very Basics
- About This Book
- AboutâTheseâArrows
- Macintosh and Windows
- About the Outline
- Living Examples
- Online Resources
- Safari® Books Online
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One. Building a Web Page
- 1. Dreamweaver CS5.5 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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Two. Building a Better Web Page
- 8. Advanced CSS
- 9. Page Layout
- 10. Troubleshooting CSS
- 11. Under the Hood: HTML
- 12. Designing Websites for Mobile Devices
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Three. Bringing Your Pages to Life
- 13. Forms
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14. Spry: Creating Interactive Web Pages
- What is Spry?
- Tabbed Panels
- Accordions
- Collapsible Panels
- Spry Tooltips
- Spry Data Sets
- Live View
- 15. Dreamweaver Behaviors
- 16. Add Flash and Other Multimedia
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Four. Building a Website
- 17. Introducing Site Management
- 18. Testing Your Site
- 19. Moving Your Site to the Internet
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Five. Dreamweaver CS5.5 Power
- 20. Snippets and Libraries
- 21. Templates
- 22. Find and Replace
- 23. Customizing Dreamweaver
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Six. Dynamic Dreamweaver
- 24. Getting Started with Dynamic Websites
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25. Adding Dynamic Data to Your Pages
- Retrieving Information
- Adding Dynamic Information
- Displaying Multiple Records
- Recordset Navigation
- Master Detail Page Set
- Passing Information Between Pages
- Viewing Live Data
- Tutorial: Displaying Database Info
- 26. Web Pages that Manipulate Database Records
- 27. Advanced Dynamic Site Features
- 28. Server-Side XML and XSLT
- A. Getting Help
- B. Dreamweaver CS5.5, Menu by Menu
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Dreamweaver CS5.5: The Missing Manual
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2011
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449313128
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