Book description
Available for both the Mac and Windows, Macromedia's Dreamweaver 8 is a professional web design and development program used by millions of Internet professionals to build high-quality static and dynamic database-driven web sites. It offers drag-and-drop simplicity, streamlined HTML coding tools, and powerful database integration features. But Dreamweaver 8 is missing one vital component: a printed manual.
Enter Dreamweaver 8: The Missing Manual, the completely revised fourth edition of this bestselling book by experienced web site trainer, Macromedia Certified instructor, and Dreamweaver Advisory Council member David McFarland. This book enables both first-time and experienced web designers to create visually stunning and highly interactive web sites.
With crystal-clear writing and much welcome humor, this new edition offers features such as:
- Live examples: With McFarland's step-by-step annotated tutorials, you'll learn how to construct a state-of-the-art commercial web site, complete with working forms, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and dynamic databases.
- Tricks of the trade: The book is bursting with undocumented workarounds and shortcuts for easing the process of building, maintaining, and updating professional web sites.
- Design guidance: You'll learn to create virtually every modern web feature, including forms, animations, cascading menus, and more--and you'll find out which browsers you need to provide special coding or do extra testing with.
No matter what your level of expertise is, you'll also learn how to manage your entire web site-whether you've just launched or if it's been around for awhile and takes up thousands of pages. Beginners with no web design experience will appreciate the step-by-step guide to designing, organizing, building, and deploying a web site; long-time Dreamweaver users will appreciate the advanced, real-world techniques for controlling the appearance of their web pages with CSS.
With more than 500 illustrations, a handcrafted index, and the clarity of thought that has made bestsellers of every Missing Manual to date, this is the ultimate atlas for the complex and powerful Dreamweaver 8.
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Table of contents
- Dreamweaver 8: The Missing Manual
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- The Missing Credits
- Introduction
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I. Building a Web Page
- 1. Dreamweaver 8 Guided Tour
- 2. Adding Text to Your Web Pages
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3. Text Formatting
- 3.1. Paragraph Formatting
- 3.2. Lists
- 3.3. Character 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. Using Guides to Align Page Elements
- 7.2. Table Basics
- 7.3. Layout Mode
- 7.4. Inserting a Table in Standard View
- 7.5. Selecting Parts of a Table in Standard View
- 7.6. Expanded Table Mode
- 7.7. Formatting Tables
- 7.8. Modifying Cell and Row Properties in Standard View
- 7.9. Adding and Removing Cells
- 7.10. Merging and Splitting Cells
- 7.11. Nesting Tables in Standard View
- 7.12. Tabular Data
- 7.13. Tables Tutorial
- 8. Advanced Page Layout
- 9. Under the Hood: HTML
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6. Cascading Style Sheets
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III. Bringing Your Pages to Life
- 10. Forms
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11. Dreamweaver Behaviors
- 11.1. Understanding Behaviors
- 11.2. Applying Behaviors
- 11.3. Events
- 11.4. The Actions, One by One
- 11.5. Creating an External JavaScript Library
- 11.6. Adding More Behaviors
- 12. Flash, Shockwave, and Other Multimedia
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IV. Building a Web Site
- 13. Introducing Site Management
- 14. Testing Your Site
- 15. Moving Your Site to the Internet
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V. Dreamweaver Power
- 16. Snippets and Libraries
- 17. Templates
- 18. Automating Dreamweaver
- 19. Customizing Dreamweaver
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VI. Dynamic Dreamweaver
- 20. Getting Started with Dynamic Web Sites
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21. Adding Dynamic Data to Your Pages
- 21.1. Retrieving Information
- 21.2. Adding Dynamic Information
- 21.3. Displaying Multiple Records
- 21.4. Recordset Navigation
- 21.5. Viewing Live Data
- 21.6. Master Detail Page Set
- 21.7. Passing Information Between Pages
- 21.8. Tutorial: Displaying Database Info
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22. Web Pages that Manipulate Database Records
- 22.1. Adding Data
- 22.2. Updating Database Records
- 22.3. Dynamic Form Fields
- 22.4. Deleting Records
- 22.5. Tutorial: Inserting and Updating Data
- 23. Advanced Dynamic Site Features
- 24. XML and XSLT
- VII. Appendixes
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Dreamweaver 8: The Missing Manual
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2005
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596100568
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