Dreamweaver Cs3: The Missing Manual

Welcome to Dreamweaver CS3. This new version of the popular web design software offers a rich environment for building professional sites, with drag-and-drop simplicity, clean HTML code, and dynamic database-driven web site creation tools. Moreover, it's now integrated more tightly with Adobe's other products: Photoshop, InDesign, Flash, and their siblings. But with such sophisticated features, the software isn't simple.

So say hello to Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual, the fifth edition of this bestselling book by experienced web site trainer and author David McFarland. This book helps both first-time and experienced web designers bring stunning, interactive web sites to life. With jargon-free language and clear descriptions, this new edition addresses both beginners who need step-by-step guidance as well as long-time Dreamweaver users who need a handy reference to address the inner-workings of the program.

Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual teaches designers how to construct and manage web sites by examining web-page components and Dreamweaver's capabilities through "live examples". With a complete A-Z guide to designing, organizing, building and deploying a web site for those with no web design experience, this book:

• Takes you through the basics to advanced techniques to control the appearance of your web pages with CSS
• Shows you how to design dynamic database-driven web sites, from blogs to product catalogs, and from shopping carts to newsletter signup forms
• Teaches you how to master your web site, and manage thousands of pages effortlessly

David McFarland has been designing web sites since 1995. He's a professional web designer and educator who has worked with the University of California at Berkeley, Intuit, and Macworld magazine among others. He is a frequent speaker at web-related conferences and teaches web design and development at Portland State University. He is a Macromedia Certified instructor and a member of the Dreamweaver Advisory Council.

• Chapter 1: Dreamweaver CS3 Guided Tour
• Chapter 2: Adding Text to Your Web Pages
• Chapter 3: Text Formatting
• Chapter 4: Introducing Cascading Style Sheets
• Chapter 5: Links
• Chapter 6: Images
• Chapter 7: Tables

• Chapter 8: advanced css
• Chapter 9: Page Layout
• Chapter 10: Under the Hood: HTML

• Chapter 11: Forms
• Chapter 12: Spry
• Chapter 13: Dreamweaver Behaviors
• Chapter 14: Flash and Other Multimedia

• Chapter 15: Introducing Site Management
• Chapter 16: Testing Your Site
• Chapter 17: Moving Your Site to the Internet

• Chapter 18: Snippets and Libraries
• Chapter 19: Templates
• Chapter 20: Automating Dreamweaver
• Chapter 21: Customizing Dreamweaver

• Chapter 22: Getting Started with Dynamic Web Sites
• Chapter 23: Adding Dynamic Data to Your Pages
• Chapter 24: Web Pages that Manipulate Database Records
• Chapter 25: Advanced Dynamic Site Features
• Chapter 26: Server-Side XML and XSLT

• Appendix A: Getting Help
• Appendix B: Dreamweaver CS3, Menu by Menu