David Sawyer Mcfarland

Dreamweaver CS4: The Missing Manual (eBook, PDF)

The Missing Manual

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 techniquesDesign dynamic database-driven websites, from blogs to product catalogs, and from shopping carts to newsletter signup formsAdd interactivity to your website with ready-to-use JavaScript programs from Adobe's Spry FrameworkEffortlessly control the many helper files that power your website and manage thousands of pagesExamine web-page components and Dreamweaver's capabilities with the book's "e;live examples"e;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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 1090
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780596803148
• Artikelnr.: 52930043

Autorenporträt

David Sawyer McFarland is the president of Sawyer McFarland Media Inc., a web development and training company located in Portland, Oregon. In addition, he teaches JavaScript programming, Flash, and web design at the University of California, Berkeley, the Center for Electronic Art, the Academy of Art College, and Ex'Pressions Center for New Media. He was formerly the webmaster at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center. David is also the author of CSS: The Missing Manual and Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual.

Inhaltsangabe

The Missing Credits
About the Author
About the Creative Team
Acknowledgements
The Missing Manual Series
Introduction
What Dreamweaver Is All About
HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript 101
Part I: Building a Web Page
Chapter 1: Dreamweaver CS4 Guided Tour
1.1 The Dreamweaver CS4 Interface
1.2 Setting Up a Site
1.3 Creating a Web Page
1.4 The Dreamweaver Test Drive
Chapter 2: Adding Text to Your Web Pages
2.1 Adding Text in Dreamweaver
2.2 Copying and Pasting Text
2.3 Selecting Text
2.4 Spell Checking
2.5 Undo, Redo, and the History Panel
Chapter 3: Text Formatting
3.1 Paragraph Formatting
3.2 Creating and Formatting Lists
3.3 Text Styles
Chapter 4: Introducing Cascading Style Sheets
4.1 Cascading Style Sheet Basics
4.2 Creating Styles
4.3 Using Styles
4.4 Manipulating Styles
4.5 Checking Browser Compatibility
4.6 Text Formatting with CSS
4.7 Cascading Style Sheets Tutorial
Chapter 5: Links
5.1 Understanding Links
5.2 Adding a Link
5.3 Adding an Email Link
5.4 Linking Within a Web Page
5.5 Modifying a Link
5.6 Styling Links
5.7 Creating a Navigation Menu
5.8 Link Tutorial
Chapter 6: Images
6.1 Adding Images
6.2 Inserting an Image from Photoshop
6.3 Modifying an Image
6.4 Controlling Images with CSS
6.5 Editing Graphics
6.6 Image Maps
6.7 Rollover Images
6.8 Tutorial: Inserting and Formatting Graphics
Chapter 7: Tables
7.1 Table Basics
7.2 Inserting a Table
7.3 Selecting Parts of a Table
7.4 Expanded Table Mode
7.5 Formatting Tables
7.6 Modifying Cell and Row Properties
7.7 Adding and Removing Cells
7.8 Merging and Splitting Cells
7.9 Tabular Data
7.10 Tables Tutorial
Part II: Building a Better Web Page
Chapter 8: Advanced CSS
8.1 Compound Selectors
8.2 Fast Style Editing With the Properties Pane
8.3 Moving and Managing Styles
8.4 More about CSS
8.5 Using the Code Navigator
8.6 Styling for Print
Chapter 9: Page Layout
9.1 Types of Web Page Layouts
9.2 Float Layout Basics
9.3 Understanding the Box Model
9.4 Dreamweaver's CSS Layouts
9.5 Modifying Dreamweaver's CSS Layouts
9.6 Absolute Positioning
9.7 Adding an AP Div to Your Page
9.8 Drawing AP Divs
9.9 The AP Elements Panel
9.10 Modifying AP Element Properties
9.11 Nesting AP Divs
9.12 CSS Layout Tutorial
Chapter 10: Under the Hood: HTML
10.1 Roundtrip HTML
10.2 Code View
10.3 Live Code
10.4 Quick Tag Editor
10.5 Tag Inspector
10.6 Comparing Versions of a Web Page
10.7 Reference Panel
10.8 Inserting JavaScript
Part III: Bringing Your Pages to Life
Chapter 11: Forms
11.1 Form Basics
11.2 Creating a Form
11.3 Adding Form Elements
11.4 Validating Forms
11.5 Forms Tutorial
Chapter 12: Spry: Creating Interactive Web Pages
12.1 What is Spry?
12.2 Tabbed Panels
12.3 Accordions
12.4 Collapsible Panels
12.5 Spry Tooltips
12.6 Spry Data Sets
12.7 Live View
Chapter 13: Dreamweaver Behaviors
13.1 Understanding Behaviors
13.2 Applying Behaviors
13.3 Events
13.4 The Actions, One by One
13.5 Advanced Behaviors
13.6 Adding More Behaviors
Chapter 14: Flash and Other Multimedia
14.1 Flash: An Introduction
14.2 Making It Easier to Download the Flash Plug-in
14.3 Adding Flash Videos
14.4 The Land of Obsolete Web Technology
Part IV: Building a Web Site
Chapter 15: Introducing Site Management
15.1 Structuring a Web Site
15.2 Site Assets
Chapter 16: Testing Your Site
16.1 Site Launch Checklist
16.2 Find and Fix Broken Links
16.3 Validating Web Pages
16.4 Cleaning Up HTML (and XHTML)
16.5 Site Reporting
16.6 Accessibility
16.7 Download Statistics
Chapter 17: Moving Your Site to the Internet
17.1 Defining a Remote Site
17.2 Transferring Files
17.3 Check In and Check Out
17.4 Synchronizing Site Files
17.5 Communicating with Design Notes
Part V: Dreamweaver CS4 Power
Chapter 18: Snippets and Libraries
18.1 Snippets Basics
18.2 Using Snippets
18.3 Creating Snippets
18.4 Built-In Snippets
18.5 Library Basics
18.6 Creating and Using Library Items
18.7 Editing Library Items
18.8 Snippets and Library Tutorial
Chapter 19: Templates
19.1 Template Basics
19.2 Creating a Template
19.3 Defining Editable Regions
19.4 Adding Optional Regions
19.5 Nested Templates
19.6 Building Pages Based on a Template
19.7 Updating a Template
19.8 Template Tutorial
Chapter 20: Automating Dreamweaver
20.1 The History Panel Revisited
20.2 Find and Replace
Chapter 21: Customizing Dreamweaver
21.1 Keyboard Shortcuts
21.2 Dreamweaver Extensions
Part VI: Dynamic Dreamweaver
Chapter 22: Getting Started with Dynamic Web Sites
22.1 Pieces of the Puzzle
22.2 Dynamic Web Sites: The Setup
22.3 Creating a Dynamic Page
22.4 Databases: A Quick Introduction
22.5 Loading a Database
22.6 Connecting to a Database
Chapter 23: Adding Dynamic Data to Your Pages
23.1 Retrieving Information
23.2 Adding Dynamic Information
23.3 Displaying Multiple Records
23.4 Recordset Navigation
23.5 Viewing Live Data
23.6 Master Detail Page Set
23.7 Passing Information Between Pages
23.8 Tutorial: Displaying Database Info
Chapter 24: Web Pages that Manipulate Database Records
24.1 Adding Data
24.2 Updating Database Records
24.3 Dynamic Form Fields
24.4 Deleting Records
24.5 Tutorial: Inserting and Updating Data
Chapter 25: Advanced Dynamic Site Features
25.1 Password-Protecting Web Pages
25.2 Additional Data Sources
25.3 Advanced Server Behaviors
25.4 Tutorial: Authentication
Chapter 26: Server-Side XML and XSLT
26.1 Understanding the Technologies
26.2 Creating Dynamic Pages with XSLT and XML
26.3 Inserting and Formatting XML
26.4 Advanced XSLT Tricks
Part VII: Appendixes
Getting Help
Getting Help from Dreamweaver
Getting Help from Adobe
Help from the Real World
Dreamweaver CS4, Menu by Menu
File Menu
Edit Menu
View Menu
Insert Menu
Modify Menu
Format Menu
Commands Menu
Site Menu
Window Menu
Help Menu
Colophon