Ebook: Dreamweaver CS6 For Dummies

Designing with CSS3: -- Comparing browser support for CSS3: -- Adding text shadows -- Adding drop shadows to images and divs -- Softening edges with rounded corners -- Enhancing your site with custom fonts: -- Finding fonts online -- Using custom fonts from the Google Web Fonts site -- Using media queries to target devices: -- Specifying media types and features -- Applying styles to your page designs -- Targeting devices when linking external style sheets -- Saving time with templates and more: -- Templating your pages -- Creating templates: -- Creating editable and uneditable regions -- Creating a new Dreamweaver template -- Saving any page as a template -- Making attributes editable -- Creating a new page from a template -- Making global changes with templates: -- Opening a template from any page created from a template -- Reusing elements with the library feature -- Creating and using library items: -- Creating a library item -- Adding a library item to a page -- Highlighting library items -- Making global changes with library items -- Editing one instance of a library item -- Using a tracing image to guide your design work -- Coming to the HTML table: -- Creating HTML tables -- Creating tables in standard mode: -- Choosing your table's appearance -- Making tables more accessible -- Specifying cell options -- Aligning table content in columns and rows -- Merging and splitting table cells -- Following a workflow for creating tables -- Sorting table data -- Using tables for spacing and alignment -- Nesting tables within tables -- Making Your Site Cool With Advanced Features: -- Adding interactivity with behaviors: -- Brushing up on behavior basics -- Creating a simple rollover image -- Adding behaviors to a web page: -- Creating swaps with multiple images -- Using the open browser window behavior -- Attaching multiple behaviors -- Editing a behavior -- Installing new extensions for behaviors -- Creating AJAX features with spry: -- Making magic with AJAX -- Creating drop-down menus with AJAX -- Creating collapsible panels -- Creating tabbed panels -- Using spry validation widgets -- Showing off with multimedia: -- Understanding multimedia players -- Using Adobe Flash: -- Inserting flash WSF files -- Setting flash properties -- Using scripts to make flash function better -- Working with Video and audio on the Web: -- Comparing popular video formats -- Comparing popular audio formats -- Adding audio and video files to Web pages: -- Linking to audio and video files -- Inserting audio and video files -- Setting options for audio and video files -- Setting multimedia parameters -- Adding flash audio and video files -- Using YouTube, Vimeo, and other online services to host videos -- Using SoundCloud to host audio files -- Linking to PDFs -- Forms follow function: -- Creating HTML forms: -- Creating radio buttons and check boxes -- Adding text fields and text areas -- Creating drop-down lists -- Using jump menus -- Finishing your form with submit and reset buttons -- Understanding how CGI scripts work: -- Configuring your form to work with a script -- Using hidden fields -- Part Of Tens: -- Ten resources you may need: -- Registering a domain name -- Dressing up the address bar with Favicon -- Highlighting links with pop-ups -- Selling stuff on the web -- Sharing your computer screen remotely -- Keeping track of traffic -- Taking your site's temperature with a heat map -- Surveying your visitors -- Keeping up with Web standards at W3-org -- Extending Dreamweaver at Adobe-com -- Ten ways to promote your site: -- Scoring high in search engines -- Buying traffic (yes, you really can!) -- Using social networking sites for promotion -- Increasing your ranking on social bookmarking sites -- Spreading the love with social media share buttons -- Enticing visitors to return for updates -- Marketing a Website to the media -- Unleashing the power of viral marketing -- Blogging, blogging, blogging -- Gathering ideas from other websites -- Index.;Introduction -- About this book -- Using Dreamweaver on a Mac or PC -- Conventions used in this book -- What you're not to read -- Foolish assumptions -- How this book is organized -- Part 1: Creating Great Websites -- Part 2: Creating Page Designs With Style -- Part 3: Making Your Site Cool With Advanced Features -- Part 4: Part Of Tens -- Icons used in this book -- Where to go from here -- Part 1: Creating Great Websites: -- Many ways to design a Web page: -- Understanding how Web design works: -- Managing your site's structure -- Exploring HTML, XHTML, and HTML5 -- Comparing static and dynamic sites -- Working with templates in Dreamweaver: -- Creating and editing Dreamweaver templates -- Editing WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal templates -- Comparing tables, frames, and layers: -- Creating page designs with HTML tables -- Considering design options with HTML frames -- Appreciating the benefits of cascading style sheets -- Understanding browser differences -- Introducing the Dreamweaver CS6 workspace: -- Changing workspace layouts -- Menu bar -- Document toolbar -- Document window -- Docking panels -- Insert panel -- Property inspector -- Status bar -- Changing preference settings -- Opening and creating sites: -- Setting up a new or existing site -- Switching among sites -- Managing sites in Dreamweaver -- Creating new pages: -- Starting from the welcome screen -- Creating an HTML page with the new document window -- Naming new page files -- Naming the first page index-html -- Bestowing a page title -- Changing page-wide styles with the page properties dialog box: -- Changing background and text colors -- Changing link styles with page properties -- Adding and formatting text: -- Adding text to a web page -- Formatting text with the heading tags -- Adding paragraphs and line breaks -- Setting links in Dreamweaver: -- Linking pages within you website -- Setting links to named anchors in a page -- Linking to another website -- Setting a link to an e-mail address -- Understanding the HTML behind links -- Adding meta tags for search engines -- Creating web graphics: -- Creating and optimizing web graphics: -- Resizing graphics and photos -- Choosing the best image format -- Saving images for the web: the basics -- Optimizing JPEG images for the web -- Optimizing images in GIF and PNG formats -- How small is small enough? -- Inserting images in Dreamweaver -- Image editing in Dreamweaver: -- Cropping an image -- Adjusting brightness and contrast -- Sharpening an image -- Opening an image in Photoshop or Fireworks from Dreamweaver -- Inserting a background image -- Managing, testing, and publishing a website: -- Understanding why web pages can look bad: -- Understanding browser differences -- Targeting browsers for your design -- Previewing your page in a browser: -- Adding web browsers to the preview feature -- Previewing pages in many web browsers -- Testing site with Adobe's BrowserLab and other online browser emulators -- Testing your designs with multiscreen preview -- Testing your work with the site reporting features -- Finding and fixing broken links: -- Checking for broken links -- Fixing broken links -- Making global changes to links -- Managing files and folders in your site: -- Moving and renaming files and folders -- Creating files and creating and deleting folders -- Publishing your website: -- Setting up Dreamweaver's FTP features -- Publishing file to a web server with FTP -- Synchronizing local and remote sites -- Setting cloaking options -- Using design notes to keep in touch -- Creating Page Designs With Style: -- Introducing cascading style sheets: -- Introducing cascading style sheets: -- Understanding the basics of styles -- Combining CSS and HTML -- Understanding style selectors -- Using internal versus external style sheets -- Looking at the code behind the scenes -- Comparing CSS rule options: -- Type category -- Background category -- Block category -- Box category -- Border category -- List category -- Positioning category -- Extensions category -- Transition category -- Using the CSS styles panel: -- Looking for conflicts in current mode -- Working with the big picture in All mode -- Creating and listing styles -- Switching between CSS and HTML mode in the property inspector -- Organizing style sheets: -- Attaching an external style sheet to a page -- Moving, copying, and editing styles -- Creating and editing CSS styles: -- Creating styles with class and tag selectors -- Creating styles with the class selector -- Applying class styles in Dreamweaver -- Creating styles with the CSS tag selector -- Resetting HTML elements with CSS -- Creating layouts with CSS and Div Tags -- Using Dreamweaver's CSS layouts: -- Comparing CSS layout options -- Creating a new page with CSS layout -- Editing the styles in a CSS layout -- Creating a navigation bar from an unordered list of links -- Comparing margins and padding in CSS -- Aligning and centering elements in CSS: -- Centering a page layout with CSS margins -- Aligning the contents of an element -- Aligning elements with floats -- Editing, renaming, and removing styles: -- Editing an existing style -- Renaming existing styles -- Removing or changing a style.;"Learn to: Design an interactive website with a great user experience; Use CSS3 to transform your designs with drop shadows, rounded corners, and almost any font; Create a site that looks great in all the major web browsers"--Cover.