Dreamweaver CS3 in easy steps
By Nick Vandome
£10.99
Publication: November 30, 2007
Pages: 192
ISBN: 978-1-84078-348-3
About the book
Dreamweaver CS3 in easy steps eases you through the whole process of working with this exceptional Web authoring package, now produced by Adobe, that takes Web design to a whole new level.
Dreamweaver CS3 in easy steps looks at the working environment of the program and the various tools and panels that are available. It then shows how to add and format content in both HTML and CSS, which is now an accepted standard in best practice web design. This includes adding text and images, creating hyperlinks, using editable library items and templates and also creating forms.
The exciting new features of Dreamweaver CS3 are looked at including new Javascript libraries (known as the Spry framework for Ajax) for adding dynamic features (such as collapsible menus) without the need for complicated coding, improved integration with Photoshop and a range of CSS features for adding and checking code, both in Dreamweaver and for a variety of different browsers. The book also looks at producing websites for mobile devices with the new Device Central function.
Overall the book shows all Web designers how to turn their Web dreams into dynamic and media-rich online reality - with Dreamweaver CS3 in easy steps, the sky's the limit.
About the author
Nick Vandome is an IT writer and trainer who specialises in digital imaging and web authoring subjects. In addition to his writing, he also works designing websites and runs training courses. Before he started working with computers he wrote books about working and travelling abroad.
Contents
- About Dreamweaver
- Introducing Dreamweaver
- Start screen
- Workspaces
- Preferences
- Working with panels
- Insert panel
- Properties Inspector
- External editors
- Page properties
- Page tabs
- Toolbars
- Creating pages
- Moving around pages
- Using guides
- Accessibility
- Getting help
- Setting up a site
- Planning a site
- Creating a new site
- Setting up a home page
- Viewing the site map
- Defining a site
- Editing HTML
- HTML overview
- Page views
- HTML preferences
- Coding toolbar
- Collapsing code
- Tag Chooser
- Tag Libraries
- Tag Inspector
- Code snippets
- Invalid code
- Quick Tag Editor
- Selecting and removing tags
- Adding HTML text
- Pasting from Word and Excel
- Working with images
- Web image overview
- Using images effectively
- Inserting images
- Image properties
- Aligning images and text
- Editing images
- Editing with Photoshop
- Creating rollover images
- Using CSS
- CSS overview
- CSS in Dreamweaver
- CSS and HTML
- Elements of CSS
- CSS layouts
- Including style sheets
- Cascading style sheets
- CSS Styles panel
- CSS management
- Browser Compatibility Check
- CSS Advisor
- Formatting with CSS
- Attaching a style sheet
- Creating a style sheet
- Editing style sheets
- Adding new CSS rules
- Creating class styles
- Applying styles
- Creating div tags
- Inserting div tags
- Positioning with CSS
- Floating items
- Other CSS properties
- Using hyperlinks
- About hyperlinks
- Linking to documents
- Linking to anchors
- Creating an email link
- Point-to-File links
- Image maps
- Navigation bars
- Using tables
- Designing with tables
- Inserting a table
- Editing a table
- Rows and columns
- Selecting cells
- Adding content
- Expanded view
- Spry elements
- Spry overview
- Spry widgets
- Spry effects
- Spry data
- Assets
- Managing assets
- Using templates
- Creating templates
- Creating template pages
- Editing templates
- Repeating editable tables
- About the Library
- Creating Library items
- Adding Library items
- Editing Library items
- Editable navigation bars
- Advanced features
- Forms
- Frames
- Layers
- Flash buttons and text
- Behaviors
- Javascript
- Dynamic web pages
- XML
- Designing for mobile devices
- Publishing
- Site management
- Checking files in and out
- Using the site map
- Uploading a site
- Getting and putting files
- Cloaking
- Synchronizing files
