Book description
Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX 2004 offers a rich environment for building professional web sites, with drag-and-drop simplicity, clean HTML code, and dynamic database-driven web site creation tools. It comes with everything except perhaps the most important feature of all: a printed manual.Enter Dreamweaver MX 2004: The Missing Manual, the book that enables both first-time and experienced web designers to bring stunning, interactive web sites to life. What sets this new edition apart is the crystal-clear writing, welcome humor, and exclusive features like these:
- Live examples. With a step-by-step annotated tutorial, readers follow the construction of a state-of-the-art commercial web site, complete with Flash buttons, Cascading Style Sheets, and dynamic databases.
- Tricks of the trade. The book is bursting with undocumented workarounds and shortcuts.
- Design guidance. Readers can create any modern web feature, including forms, animations, pop-up windows, and more. This book lets you know which browsers, situations, and audiences are appropriate for each.
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Table of contents
- Dreamweaver MX 2004: The Missing Manual
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- The Missing Credits
- Introduction
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I. Building a Web Page
- 1. Dreamweaver MX 2004 Guided Tour
- 2. Adding Text to Your Web Pages
- 3. Text Formatting
- 4. Links
- 5. Images
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II. Building a Better Web Page
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6. Cascading Style Sheets
- 6.1. Cascading Style Sheet Basics
- 6.2. Creating Styles
- 6.3. Using Styles
- 6.4. Manipulating Styles
- 6.5. More About Styles
- 6.6. Advanced Styles
- 6.7. Style Properties
- 6.8. Cascading Style Sheets Tutorial
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7. Page Layout 101
- 7.1. Table Basics
- 7.2. Layout Mode
- 7.3. Inserting a Table in Standard View
- 7.4. Selecting Parts of a Table in Standard View
- 7.5. Expanded Table Mode
- 7.6. Formatting Tables
- 7.7. Modifying Cell and Row Properties in Standard View
- 7.8. Adding and Removing Rows and Columns
- 7.9. Merging and Splitting Cells
- 7-10. Nesting Tables in Standard View
- 7.11. Tabular Data
- 7.12. Tables Tutorial
- 8. Page Layout 2004
- 9. Frames
- 10. Under the Hood: HTML
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6. Cascading Style Sheets
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III. Bringing Your Pages to Life
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11. Forms
- 11.1. Form Basics
- 11.2. Creating a Form
- 11.3. Adding Form Elements
- 11.4. Validating Forms
- 11.5. Forms Tutorial
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12. Dreamweaver Behaviors
- 12.1. Understanding Behaviors
- 12.2. Applying Behaviors
- 12.3. Events for 4.0 Browsers
- 12.4. The Actions, One by One
- 12.5. Creating an External JavaScript Library
- 12.6. Adding More Behaviors
- 13. Flash, Shockwave, and Other Multimedia
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11. Forms
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IV. Building a Web Site
- 14. Introducing Site Management
- 15. Testing Your Site
- 16. Moving Your Site to the Internet
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V. Dreamweaver 2004 Power
- 17. Snippets and Libraries
- 18. Templates
- 19. Automating Dreamweaver
- 20. Customizing Dreamweaver
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VI. Dynamic Dreamweaver 2004
- 21. Getting Started with Dynamic Web Sites
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22. Adding Dynamic Data to Your Pages
- 22.1. Retrieving Information
- 22.2. Adding Dynamic Information
- 22.3. Displaying Multiple Records
- 22.4. Recordset Navigation
- 22.5. Viewing Live Data Within Dreamweaver
- 22.6. Master Detail Page Set
- 22.7. Passing Information Between Pages
- 22.8. Tutorial: Displaying Database Information
- 23. Web Pages that Manipulate Database Records
- 24. Advanced Dynamic Site Features
- A. Getting Help
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Dreamweaver MX 2004: The Missing Manual
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2004
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596006310
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