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 Foundation Web Design with Dreamweaver 8

 

Published by: FRIENDS OF ED
Author: Grannell, Craig
Number of pages: 308
Group: DREAMWEAVER 8
ISBN: 159059567X/9781590595671
User level: Beginner/Intermediate
Objective: Reference
Date Published: February 2006
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Dreamweaver is Macromedia's best-selling web design/development environment, and the updated version of Dreamweaver will be available later this year. 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 the latest version 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 looks at using the software for your web design projects in a hands-on, task based manner, covering these topics:






    Setting up a site in Dreamweaver

    Global web site essentials, such as dealing with doctypes, meta tags, comments, and page defaults, and attaching CSS and JavaScript files to your page

    Styling page content properly using CSS

    Working with images

    Creating web site navigation

    CSS for impressive page layouts that work

    Getting user feedback via forms



Following these exercises, the book then shows how to bring everything together with a final case study using Dreamweaver to build a complete web site.



Summary of Contents:







    Chapter 1: A New Kind of Web Design

    Chapter 2: Getting Started with Dreamweaver

    Chapter 3: Setting Up a Website

    Chapter 4: Web Page Essentials

    Chapter 5: Working with Text

    Chapter 6: Working with Images

    Chapter 7: Creating Navigation for Your Website

    Chapter 8: Web Page Layouts

    Chapter 9: Getting User Feedback

    Chapter 10: Putting It All into Practice