1. Building a Web Page

   1. Chapter 1 Dreamweaver 8 Guided Tour

      1. Welcome to Dreamweaver 8
      2. The Dreamweaver 8 Interface
      3. The Dreamweaver Test Drive

   2. Chapter 2 Adding Text to Your Web Pages

      1. Adding Text in Dreamweaver
      2. Copying and Pasting Text
      3. Selecting Text
      4. Spell Checking
      5. Undo, Redo, and the History Panel

   3. Chapter 3 Text Formatting

      1. Paragraph Formatting
      2. Lists
      3. Character Formatting

   4. Chapter 4 Links

      1. Understanding Links
      2. Adding a Link
      3. Adding an Email Link
      4. Linking Within a Web Page
      5. Modifying a Link

   5. Chapter 5 Images

      1. Adding Images
      2. Modifying an Image
      3. Editing Graphics
      4. Image Maps
      5. Rollover Images
      6. Flash Buttons
      7. Flash Text
      8. Tutorial: Adding Rollover Images

2. Building a Better Web Page

   1. Chapter 6 Cascading Style Sheets

      1. Cascading Style Sheet Basics
      2. Creating Styles
      3. Using Styles
      4. Manipulating Styles
      5. More about Styles
      6. Advanced Styles
      7. Style Properties
      8. Cascading Style Sheets Tutorial

   2. Chapter 7 Page Layout 101

      1. Using Guides to Align Page Elements
      2. Table Basics
      3. Layout Mode
      4. Inserting a Table in Standard View
      5. Selecting Parts of a Table in Standard View
      6. Expanded Table Mode
      7. Formatting Tables
      8. Modifying Cell and Row Properties in Standard View
      9. Adding and Removing Cells
      10. Merging and Splitting Cells
      11. Nesting Tables in Standard View
      12. Tabular Data
      13. Tables Tutorial

   3. Chapter 8 Advanced Page Layout

      1. Introducing CSS Layout
      2. The Basics
      3. Creating CSS Styles for Layers
      4. Applying the Layer Style
      5. Drawing with the Layer Tool
      6. The Layers Panel
      7. Modifying Layer Properties
      8. Nesting Layers
      9. CSS Layout Tutorial

   4. Chapter 9 Under the Hood: HTML

      1. Roundtrip HTML
      2. Code View
      3. Quick Tag Editor
      4. Tag Inspector
      5. Comparing Versions of a Web Page
      6. Reference Panel
      7. Inserting JavaScript

3. Bringing Your Pages to Life

   1. Chapter 10 Forms

      1. Form Basics
      2. Creating a Form
      3. Adding Form Elements
      4. Validating Forms
      5. Forms Tutorial

   2. Chapter 11 Dreamweaver Behaviors

      1. Understanding Behaviors
      2. Applying Behaviors
      3. Events
      4. The Actions, One by One
      5. Creating an External JavaScript Library
      6. Adding More Behaviors

   3. Chapter 12 Flash, Shockwave, and Other Multimedia

      1. Flash
      2. Flash Elements
      3. Flash Video
      4. FlashPaper
      5. Shockwave
      6. Other Multimedia Controls

4. Building a Web Site

   1. Chapter 13 Introducing Site Management

      1. Structuring a Web Site
      2. Viewing a Site Map
      3. Site Assets

   2. Chapter 14 Testing Your Site

      1. Site Launch Checklist
      2. Check Browser Support
      3. Validating Web Pages
      4. Find and Fix Broken Links
      5. Cleaning Up HTML (and XHTML)
      6. Site Reporting
      7. Accessibility
      8. Download Statistics

   3. Chapter 15 Moving Your Site to the Internet

      1. Defining a Remote Site
      2. Transferring Files
      3. Check In and Check Out
      4. Synchronizing Site Files
      5. Communicating with Design Notes

5. Dreamweaver Power

   1. Chapter 16 Snippets and Libraries

      1. Snippets Basics
      2. Using Snippets
      3. Creating Snippets
      4. Built-in Snippets
      5. Library Basics
      6. Creating and Using Library Items
      7. Editing Library Items
      8. Snippets and Library Tutorial

   2. Chapter 17 Templates

      1. Template Basics
      2. Creating a Template
      3. Defining Editable Regions
      4. Adding Optional Regions
      5. Nested Templates
      6. Building Pages Based on a Template
      7. Updating a Template
      8. Template Tutorial

   3. Chapter 18 Automating Dreamweaver

      1. The History Panel Revisited
      2. Creating a Web Photo Album
      3. Find and Replace

   4. Chapter 19 Customizing Dreamweaver

      1. Keyboard Shortcuts
      2. Dreamweaver Extensions

6. Dynamic Dreamweaver

   1. Chapter 20 Getting Started with Dynamic Web Sites

      1. Pieces of the Puzzle
      2. Dynamic Web Sites: The Setup
      3. Databases: A Quick Introduction
      4. Creating a Dynamic Page
      5. Connecting to a Database

   2. Chapter 21 Adding Dynamic Data to Your Pages

      1. Retrieving Information
      2. Adding Dynamic Information
      3. Displaying Multiple Records
      4. Recordset Navigation
      5. Viewing Live Data
      6. Master Detail Page Set
      7. Passing Information Between Pages
      8. Tutorial: Displaying Database Info

   3. Chapter 22 Web Pages that Manipulate Database Records

      1. Adding Data
      2. Updating Database Records
      3. Dynamic Form Fields
      4. Deleting Records
      5. Tutorial: Inserting and Updating Data

   4. Chapter 23 Advanced Dynamic Site Features

      1. Password-Protecting Web Pages
      2. Additional Data Sources
      3. Advanced Server Behaviors
      4. Tutorial: Authentication

   5. Chapter 24 XML and XSLT

      1. What Is XML?
      2. Building a Static Page from an XML File
      3. Creating Dynamic Pages with XSLT and XML
      4. Inserting and Formatting XML
      5. Advanced XSLT Tricks
      6. XML and XSLT Tutorial

7. Appendixes

   1. Appendix A Getting Help

      1. Getting Help from Dreamweaver
      2. What's New
      3. Getting Help from Macromedia
      4. Help from the Real World
      5. Help Creating Your Own Extensions

   2. Appendix B Dreamweaver 8, Menu by Menu

      1. File Menu
      2. Edit Menu
      3. View Menu
      4. Insert Menu
      5. Modify Menu
      6. Text Menu
      7. Commands Menu
      8. Site Menu
      9. Window Menu
      10. Help Menu

1. Colophon

Sanders Kleinfeld was the production editor and proofreader for Dreamweaver 8: The Missing Manual. Marlowe Shaeffer and Genevieve d'Entremont provided quality control. Lucie Haskins wrote the index.

The cover of this book is based on a series design by David Freedman. Karen Montgomery produced the cover layout with Adobe InDesign CS using Adobe's Minion and Gill Sans fonts.

David Futato designed the interior layout, based on a series design by Phil Simpson. This book was converted by Keith Fahlgren from Microsoft Word to Adobe FrameMaker 5.5.6 using Open Source XML technologies. The text font is Adobe Minion; the heading font is Adobe Formata Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano, Jessamyn Read, and Lesley Borash using Macromedia FreeHand MX and Adobe Photoshop CS.