Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual
Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual By David Sawyer McFarland
June 2007
Pages: 1020

| Table of Contents | Index | Sample Chapter | Colophon

Table of Contents

  1. Building a Web Page

    1. Chapter 1 Dreamweaver CS3 Guided Tour

      1. The Dreamweaver CS3 Interface
      2. Setting Up a Site
      3. Creating a Web Page
      4. 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. Creating and Formatting Lists
      3. Character Formatting

    4. Chapter 4 Introducing Cascading Style Sheets

      1. Cascading Style Sheet Basics
      2. Creating Styles
      3. Using Styles
      4. Manipulating Styles
      5. Checking Browser Compatibility
      6. Text Formatting with CSS
      7. Cascading Style Sheets Tutorial

    5. Chapter 5 Links

      1. Understanding Links
      2. Adding a Link
      3. Adding an Email Link
      4. Linking Within a Web Page
      5. Modifying a Link
      6. Styling Links
      7. Creating a Navigation Menu
      8. Link Tutorial

    6. Chapter 6 Images

      1. Adding Images
      2. Inserting an Image from Photoshop
      3. Modifying an Image
      4. Controlling Images with CSS
      5. Editing Graphics
      6. Image Maps
      7. Rollover Images
      8. Flash Buttons
      9. Flash Text
      10. Tutorial: Inserting and Formatting Graphics

    7. Chapter 7 Tables

      1. Table Basics
      2. Inserting a Table
      3. Selecting Parts of a Table
      4. Expanded Table Mode
      5. Formatting Tables
      6. Modifying Cell and Row Properties
      7. Adding and Removing Cells
      8. Merging and Splitting Cells
      9. Tabular Data
      10. Tables Tutorial

  2. Building a Better Web Page

    1. Chapter 8 advanced css

      1. Advanced Styles
      2. Fast Style Editing
      3. Moving and Managing Styles
      4. More about CSS
      5. Styling for Print

    2. Chapter 9 Page Layout

      1. Types of Web Page Layouts
      2. Float Layout Basics
      3. Understanding the Box Model
      4. Dreamweaver's CSS Layouts
      5. Modifying Dreamweaver's CSS Layouts
      6. Absolute Positioning
      7. Adding an AP Div to Your Page
      8. Drawing AP Divs
      9. The AP Elements Panel
      10. Modifying AP Element Properties
      11. Nesting AP Divs
      12. CSS Layout Tutorial

    3. Chapter 10 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 11 Forms

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

    2. Chapter 12 Spry

      1. What is Spry?
      2. Tabbed Panels
      3. Accordions
      4. Collapsible Panels
      5. Spry Data Sets

    3. Chapter 13 Dreamweaver Behaviors

      1. Understanding Behaviors
      2. Applying Behaviors
      3. Events
      4. The Actions, One by One
      5. Advanced Behaviors
      6. Adding More Behaviors

    4. Chapter 14 Flash and Other Multimedia

      1. Flash: An Introduction
      2. Adding Flash Videos
      3. The Land of Obsolete Web Technology

  4. Building a Web Site

    1. Chapter 15 Introducing Site Management

      1. Structuring a Web Site
      2. Site Assets

    2. Chapter 16 Testing Your Site

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

    3. Chapter 17 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 CS3 Power

    1. Chapter 18 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 19 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 20 Automating Dreamweaver

      1. The History Panel Revisited
      2. Find and Replace

    4. Chapter 21 Customizing Dreamweaver

      1. Keyboard Shortcuts
      2. Dreamweaver Extensions

  6. Dynamic Dreamweaver

    1. Chapter 22 Getting Started with Dynamic Web Sites

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

    2. Chapter 23 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 24 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 25 Advanced Dynamic Site Features

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

    5. Chapter 26 Server-Side XML and XSLT

      1. Understanding the Technologies
      2. Creating Dynamic Pages with XSLT and XML
      3. Inserting and Formatting XML
      4. Advanced XSLT Tricks

  7. Appendixes

    1. Appendix A Getting Help

      1. Getting Help from Dreamweaver
      2. Getting Help from Adobe
      3. Help from the Real World
      4. Help Creating Your Own Extensions

    2. Appendix B Dreamweaver CS3, 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

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