Foundation Web Design with Dreamweaver 8

By: Craig Grannell

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Dreamweaver is Macromedia's bestselling web design/development environment. Dreamweaver has the capability to generate dynamic website code using server-side languages like ASP, PHP, and ASP.NET. We know that you don't always require a full database-driven site though, so this book focuses on using version 8 of Dreamweaver to design and create usable, standards-compliant websites using XHTML and CSS. One of the highlights of this version is much closer, tighter CSS/XHTML. This book will show you how to make the most of that feature.

After a brief introduction to the latest version of Dreamweaver, and how CSS and XHTML fit into it, Craig Grannell looks at using the software for your web design projects in a hands-on, task based manner.

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Graphical & Digital Media Applications Web Graphics & Design Computer Programming & Software Development Software Engineering Graphics Programming

About the Author	p. xi
About the Technical Reviewer	p. xii
About the Cover Image Designer	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
A New Kind of Web Design	p. 1
About the Internet	p. 2
A brief history of web design	p. 3
Creating a website	p. 5
What is the purpose of the website?	p. 5
Who will visit the site?	p. 7
Is there a client involved, and what are its needs?	p. 8
What content will the site contain?	p. 8
How will the site be structured?	p. 9
When is the deadline?	p. 9
Gathering and organizing content	p. 9
Creating a site map	p. 10
Introducing web standards	p. 11
XHTML	p. 11
CSS	p. 11
Summary	p. 12
Getting Started with Dreamweaver	p. 15
What is Dreamweaver?	p. 16
Creating a new document-the Start Page	p. 16
Choosing a document to work with	p. 17
The Dreamweaver interface	p. 18
What's new?	p. 19
Menus	p. 19
Insert bar	p. 21
Exercise: Customizing favorite objects	p. 23
The document window	p. 24
Design view	p. 24
Resizing windows	p. 25
Estimating download times	p. 26
Zooming in and out in Design view	p. 27
Code view	p. 28
Split (Design and Code) view	p. 28
Document window menus	p. 29
The Properties panel	p. 31
Other panels	p. 32
Panel groups	p. 33
Web page editing preferences	p. 33
Setting up preview browsers	p. 36
Keyboard shortcuts	p. 37
Summary	p. 37
Setting Up a Website	p. 39
Defining a site in Dreamweaver	p. 40
Exercise: How to set up your website	p. 40
The Advanced tab	p. 46
Editing and uploading files	p. 48
Summary	p. 52
Web Page Essentials	p. 55
Anatomy of a web page	p. 56
Dreamweaver defaults	p. 56
Defining the document's character set	p. 58
Changing the page's title	p. 58
Editing the head section	p. 59
Adding keywords and a description	p. 60
Adding other meta elements	p. 60
Attaching JavaScript documents	p. 62
Attaching CSS files	p. 62
Understanding CSS	p. 63
The rules of CSS	p. 64
Tag selectors	p. 64
Class selectors	p. 65
ID selectors	p. 65
Grouped selectors	p. 65
Contextual selectors	p. 66
The cascade	p. 67
Working with CSS	p. 67
Creating and editing a CSS style	p. 67
Applying a style	p. 71
Setting default margins for a web page	p. 73
Adding backgrounds to web pages	p. 75
Using CSS to add backgrounds to web pages	p. 75
Creating Web page backgrounds	p. 76
Striped background tiles	p. 80
Drop shadows	p. 81
Applying watermarks	p. 82
Adding comments	p. 84
Adding Design Notes	p. 87
Summary	p. 89
Working with Text	p. 91
Semantic markup	p. 92
Adding text elements	p. 92
Creating paragraphs, line breaks, and headings	p. 92
Specifying preformatted text	p. 93
Making text bold and italic	p. 94
Aligning text	p. 95
Styling text elements	p. 95
Using the Properties panel to style text	p. 95
Using the CSS Styles panel to style text	p. 97
Exercise: Applying styles to multiple elements and selections	p. 99
Working with lists	p. 102
Creating a list	p. 102
Changing a list's type	p. 103
Exercise: Styling lists	p. 104
Creating inline lists	p. 108
Text styling examples	p. 109
Sizing text: pixels versus keywords	p. 110
Exercise: Styling headings and paragraphs	p. 110
Restyling text using the CSS Styles panel	p. 115
Exercise: Rapidly restyling headings and paragraphs	p. 115
Exercise: Creating print-like paragraphs	p. 117
Exercise: Creating drop caps	p. 119
Exercise: Creating pull quotes	p. 122
Fixing text sizes in IE 5 for Windows	p. 125
Cross-platform issues	p. 125
Summary	p. 126
Working with Images	p. 129
Choosing formats for images	p. 130
JPEG	p. 130
GIF	p. 131
Transparent GIFs	p. 132
PNG	p. 132
Web image mistakes to avoid	p. 133
Using graphics for body copy	p. 133
Not working from original images	p. 133
Using too little contrast	p. 133
Resizing images using Dreamweaver	p. 133
Not balancing quality and file size	p. 134
Using text overlays	p. 134
Stealing images and designs	p. 135
Adding an image to a web page	p. 135
Editing an image	p. 137
Changing an image's source	p. 137
Integrating with Fireworks	p. 137
Cropping an image	p. 138
Resizing and resampling an image	p. 139
Setting brightness, contrast, and sharpening	p. 139
Creating image maps	p. 141
Exercise: Adding an image map to your web page	p. 141
Styling images using CSS	p. 142
Exercise: Adding borders to all web page images	p. 142
Exercise: Adding a border to a single image only	p. 144
Exercise: Wrapping text around an image	p. 146
Exercise: Styling images using contextual selectors	p. 148
Exercise: Creating a thumbnails area	p. 151
Summary	p. 152
Creating Navigation for Your Website	p. 155
Navigation types	p. 156
Inline navigation	p. 156
Site navigation	p. 157
Search-based navigation	p. 158
Creating and targeting links	p. 158
Absolute links	p. 159
Relative links	p. 159
Root-relative links	p. 160
Targeting links	p. 160
Exercise: Linking to elsewhere on a web page	p. 160
Styling links using CSS	p. 163
Multiple link states: the cascade	p. 164
Exercise: Creating different link styles in two page areas	p. 165
Advanced link usage	p. 167
Exercise: Creating pop-up windows	p. 167
Exercise: Using links to switch images	p. 169
Creating navigation bars	p. 171
Vertical navigation bars	p. 171
Exercise: Creating and styling a vertically aligned navigation bar	p. 172
Exercise: Using JavaScript to create collapsible sections	p. 175
Removing white space in Internet Explorer	p. 176
Horizontal navigation bars	p. 177
Exercise: Creating and styling a horizontal navigation bar	p. 177
Exercise: Creating a "breadcrumbs" navigation area	p. 179
Exercise: Creating a horizontal navigation bar with rollover images	p. 181
Summary	p. 185
Web Page Layouts	p. 187
Creating a structure	p. 188
Box formatting	p. 188
Creating page layouts in Dreamweaver	p. 190
Boxouts and sidebars	p. 190
The float property	p. 191
Exercise: Creating a boxout	p. 192
Exercise: Creating a sidebar	p. 195
Working with columns	p. 198
Exercise: Creating a two-column layout	p. 199
Exercise: Adding padding and spacing	p. 202
Faking column backgrounds	p. 204
Working with liquid columns	p. 205
Exercise: Adding padding to liquid columns	p. 206
Exercise: Creating a three-column layout with fixed sidebars	p. 207
Exercise: Adding a footer	p. 209
Working with tables	p. 210
The Table dialog box	p. 211
Exercise: Creating and styling a table in Dreamweaver	p. 215
Adding scrollable areas	p. 222
Exercise: Using CSS to create a scrolling area	p. 224
Exercise: Using an iframe to create a scrollable area	p. 225
Summary	p. 228
Getting User Feedback	p. 231
Using mailto: links	p. 232
Scrambling addresses	p. 233
Working with forms	p. 233
Creating a form	p. 234
Adding controls	p. 234
Exercise: Adding controls to a form	p. 235
Adding a fieldset and legend	p. 241
Styling a form	p. 241
Sending feedback	p. 244
Configuring nms FormMail	p. 245
Multiple recipients	p. 246
Script server permissions	p. 247
Sending form data by PHP	p. 247
Using email to send form data	p. 250
A layout for contact pages	p. 251
Summary	p. 252
Putting It All into Practice	p. 255
Creating website layouts	p. 256
Exercise: Creating a layout for an online diary or blog	p. 256
Exercise: Creating a fixed-width, businesslike layout	p. 264
Exercise: Creating a three-column, liquid website layout	p. 271
Exercise: Creating an advanced website layout	p. 278
Introducing templates	p. 286
Exercise: Creating a template	p. 287
Exercise: Creating a page based on a template	p. 290
Exercise: Editing the template	p. 293
Exercise: Working with embedded templates	p. 295
Editing template code	p. 298
Outro	p. 299
Index	p. 301
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