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With the release of Adobe Creative Suite CS3, Dreamweaver is now part of the world's leading suite of creative tools, making it the de facto tool of choice for anyone designing for the Web. Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide uses a combination of task-based instruction and strong visuals to teach beginning and intermediate users how to create, design, and publish powerful, innovative Web sites with Dreamweaver. Leading technology authors Tom Negrino and Dori Smith take readers step-by-step through the new features in Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, with all new chapters on building dynamic pages with Ajax and Spry, and designing for mobile devices. They also cover improvements to using styles and CSS in Dreamweaver, and the new Browser Compatibility Check in Dreamweaver CS3. Beginning users will learn to create their first Web site, add text, style and position page content, manage styles, work with links, incorporate images, media, tables, forms, and frames, design site navigation, and so much more. Experienced users will find this a convenient reference to the new features of Dreamweaver CS3.
Book News Annotation:
This guide to Adobe's Dreamweaver CS3 software helps beginning and
intermediate web designers build and embellish a website on either
Windows or Mac, using an outline format and supplemental graphics.
Beyond basic techniques, chapters show readers how to customize font,
build dynamic pages with Spry, use forms and fields, use behaviors
and navigation objects, edit code, and manage the site long term.
Concluding material discusses customization and expansion of
Dreamweaver software and offers code for cascading style sheets.
Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
About the Author
Tom Negrino is the author of dozens of books, including Visual QuickStart Guides covering Macromedia Contribute and Keynote, and Visual QuickProject Guides on PowerPoint, Keynote, and Quicken. Dori Smith is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, publisher of the Wise-Women's Web community, and a member of the Web Standards Project. Together with Tom, they've written the best-selling JavaScript and Ajax for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, the previous edition of this book, and numerous print and online articles.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Introducing Dreamweaver
Chapter 2: Starting Your First Site
Chapter 3: Building Your First Page
Chapter 4: Adding Text To Your Pages
Chapter 5: Styling Page Content
Chapter 6: Positioning Page Content
Chapter 7: Managing Styles
Chapter 8: Working With Links
Chapter 9: Including Images and Media
Chapter 10: Inserting Tables
Chapter 11: Using Forms and Fields
Chapter 12: Adding Frames
Chapter 13: Using Behaviors and Navigation Objects
Chapter 14: Building Dynamic Pages with Spry
Chapter 15: Making Life Easier: Using Templates, Libraries,
and Snippets
Chapter 16: Working With Other Applications
Chapter 17: Editing Code
Chapter 18: Managing Your Site
Appendix A: Where to Learn More
Appendix B: Customizing and Extending Dreamweaver
Appendix C: Cascading Style Sheets Reference
Index
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