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Dreamweaver CS4: The Missing Manual helps you master the latest version of this popular web design program. Perfect for beginners who need step-by-step guidance, and for longtime Dreamweaver designers who need a handy reference, the sixth edition of this bestselling Missing Manual offers jargon-free language and clear descriptions for designing, organizing, building, and deploying websites. It's the ultimate atlas for Dreamweaver CS4.
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Table of Contents
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Building a Web Page
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Chapter 1 Dreamweaver CS4 Guided Tour
- The Dreamweaver CS4 Interface
- Setting Up a Site
- Creating a Web Page
- The Dreamweaver Test Drive
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Chapter 2 Adding Text to Your Web Pages
- Adding Text in Dreamweaver
- Copying and Pasting Text
- Selecting Text
- Spell Checking
- Undo, Redo, and the History Panel
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Chapter 3 Text Formatting
- Paragraph Formatting
- Creating and Formatting Lists
- Text Styles
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Chapter 4 Introducing Cascading Style Sheets
- Cascading Style Sheet Basics
- Creating Styles
- Using Styles
- Manipulating Styles
- Checking Browser Compatibility
- Text Formatting with CSS
- Cascading Style Sheets Tutorial
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Chapter 5 Links
- Understanding Links
- Adding a Link
- Adding an Email Link
- Linking Within a Web Page
- Modifying a Link
- Styling Links
- Creating a Navigation Menu
- Link Tutorial
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Chapter 6 Images
- Adding Images
- Inserting an Image from Photoshop
- Modifying an Image
- Controlling Images with CSS
- Editing Graphics
- Image Maps
- Rollover Images
- Tutorial: Inserting and Formatting Graphics
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Chapter 7 Tables
- Table Basics
- Inserting a Table
- Selecting Parts of a Table
- Expanded Table Mode
- Formatting Tables
- Modifying Cell and Row Properties
- Adding and Removing Cells
- Merging and Splitting Cells
- Tabular Data
- Tables Tutorial
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Building a Better Web Page
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Chapter 8 Advanced CSS
- Compound Selectors
- Fast Style Editing With the Properties Pane
- Moving and Managing Styles
- More about CSS
- Using the Code Navigator
- Styling for Print
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Chapter 9 Page Layout
- Types of Web Page Layouts
- Float Layout Basics
- Understanding the Box Model
- Dreamweaver's CSS Layouts
- Modifying Dreamweaver's CSS Layouts
- Absolute Positioning
- Adding an AP Div to Your Page
- Drawing AP Divs
- The AP Elements Panel
- Modifying AP Element Properties
- Nesting AP Divs
- CSS Layout Tutorial
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Chapter 10 Under the Hood: HTML
- Roundtrip HTML
- Code View
- Live Code
- Quick Tag Editor
- Tag Inspector
- Comparing Versions of a Web Page
- Reference Panel
- Inserting JavaScript
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Bringing Your Pages to Life
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Chapter 11 Forms
- Form Basics
- Creating a Form
- Adding Form Elements
- Validating Forms
- Forms Tutorial
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Chapter 12 Spry: Creating Interactive Web Pages
- What is Spry?
- Tabbed Panels
- Accordions
- Collapsible Panels
- Spry Tooltips
- Spry Data Sets
- Live View
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Chapter 13 Dreamweaver Behaviors
- Understanding Behaviors
- Applying Behaviors
- Events
- The Actions, One by One
- Advanced Behaviors
- Adding More Behaviors
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Chapter 14 Flash and Other Multimedia
- Flash: An Introduction
- Making It Easier to Download the Flash Plug-in
- Adding Flash Videos
- The Land of Obsolete Web Technology
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Building a Web Site
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Chapter 15 Introducing Site Management
- Structuring a Web Site
- Site Assets
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Chapter 16 Testing Your Site
- Site Launch Checklist
- Find and Fix Broken Links
- Validating Web Pages
- Cleaning Up HTML (and XHTML)
- Site Reporting
- Accessibility
- Download Statistics
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Chapter 17 Moving Your Site to the Internet
- Defining a Remote Site
- Transferring Files
- Check In and Check Out
- Synchronizing Site Files
- Communicating with Design Notes
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Dreamweaver CS4 Power
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Chapter 18 Snippets and Libraries
- Snippets Basics
- Using Snippets
- Creating Snippets
- Built-In Snippets
- Library Basics
- Creating and Using Library Items
- Editing Library Items
- Snippets and Library Tutorial
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Chapter 19 Templates
- Template Basics
- Creating a Template
- Defining Editable Regions
- Adding Optional Regions
- Nested Templates
- Building Pages Based on a Template
- Updating a Template
- Template Tutorial
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Chapter 20 Automating Dreamweaver
- The History Panel Revisited
- Find and Replace
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Chapter 21 Customizing Dreamweaver
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Dreamweaver Extensions
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Dynamic Dreamweaver
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Chapter 22 Getting Started with Dynamic Web Sites
- Pieces of the Puzzle
- Dynamic Web Sites: The Setup
- Creating a Dynamic Page
- Databases: A Quick Introduction
- Loading a Database
- Connecting to a Database
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Chapter 23 Adding Dynamic Data to Your Pages
- Retrieving Information
- Adding Dynamic Information
- Displaying Multiple Records
- Recordset Navigation
- Viewing Live Data
- Master Detail Page Set
- Passing Information Between Pages
- Tutorial: Displaying Database Info
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Chapter 24 Web Pages that Manipulate Database Records
- Adding Data
- Updating Database Records
- Dynamic Form Fields
- Deleting Records
- Tutorial: Inserting and Updating Data
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Chapter 25 Advanced Dynamic Site Features
- Password-Protecting Web Pages
- Additional Data Sources
- Advanced Server Behaviors
- Tutorial: Authentication
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Chapter 26 Server-Side XML and XSLT
- Understanding the Technologies
- Creating Dynamic Pages with XSLT and XML
- Inserting and Formatting XML
- Advanced XSLT Tricks
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Appendixes
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Appendix Getting Help
- Getting Help from Dreamweaver
- Getting Help from Adobe
- Help from the Real World
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Appendix 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
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Product Details
- Title:
- Dreamweaver CS4: The Missing Manual
- By:
- David Sawyer McFarland
- Publisher:
- O'Reilly Media / Pogue Press
- Formats:
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- Ebook
- Safari Books Online
- Print Release:
- November 2008
- Ebook Release:
- November 2008
- Pages:
- 1088
- Print ISBN:
- 978-0-596-52292-6
- | ISBN 10:
- 0-596-52292-4
- Ebook ISBN:
- 978-0-596-15688-6
- | ISBN 10:
- 0-596-15688-X
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