Dreamweaver CS4: The Missing Manual

Name: Dreamweaver CS4: The Missing Manual | The Missing Manual
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The Missing Manual

David Sawyer Mcfarland(Author)

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Published on 22. November 2008

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When it comes to building professional websites, Dreamweaver CS4 is capable of doing more than any other web design program -- including previous versions of Dreamweaver. But the software's sophisticated features aren't simple. Dreamweaver CS4: The Missing Manual will help you master this program quickly, so you can bring stunning, interactive websites to life.Under the expert guidance of bestselling author and teacher David McFarland, you'll learn how to build professional-looking websites quickly and painlessly. McFarland has loaded the book with over 150 pages of hands-on tutorials to help you create database-enabled PHP pages, use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for cutting-edge design, add XML-based news feeds, include dynamic effects with JavaScript and AJAX, and more. This witty and objective book offers jargon-free language and clear descriptions that will help you:Learn how to control the appearance of your web pages with CSS, from the basics to advanced techniquesDesign dynamic database-driven websites, from blogs to product catalogs, and from shopping carts to newsletter signup formsAdd interactivity to your website with ready-to-use JavaScript programs from Adobe's Spry FrameworkEffortlessly control the many helper files that power your website and manage thousands of pagesExamine web-page components and Dreamweaver's capabilities with the book's &quote;live examples&quote;Perfect for beginners who need step-by-step guidance, and for longtime Dreamweaver designers who need a handy reference to the new version, this thoroughly updated edition of our bestselling Missing Manual is your complete guide to designing, organizing, building, and deploying websites. It's the ultimate atlas for Dreamweaver CS4.

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Intro
Table of Contents
The Missing Credits
About the Author
About the Creative Team
Acknowledgements
The Missing Manual Series
Introduction
What Dreamweaver Is All About
Why Dreamweaver?
What's New in Dreamweaver CS4
HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript 101
Of Tags and Properties
XHTML, Too
Adding Style with Cascading Style Sheets
Adding Interactivity with JavaScript
The Very Basics
About This Book
About > These > Arrows
Macintosh and Windows
About the Outline
Living Examples
About MissingManuals.com
Safari® Books Online
Dreamweaver CS4 Guided Tour
The Dreamweaver CS4 Interface
The Document Window
The Insert Panel
The Files Panel
The Property Inspector
The Application Bar
Organizing Your Workspace
Floating panels
Iconic panes
Workspace Layouts
Setting Up a Site
The Site Definition Wizard
Defining a Site the Fast Way
Creating a Web Page
The Dreamweaver Test Drive
Phase 1: Getting Dreamweaver in Shape
Phase 2: Creating a Web Site
Phase 3: Creating and Saving a Web Page
Phase 4: Adding Images and Text
Phase 5: Preview Your Work
Phase 6: Finishing the Page
Adding Text to Your Web Pages
Adding Text in Dreamweaver
Adding Special Characters
Line Breaks
Nonbreaking Spaces
Multiple Spaces
Adding a Date to Your Page
Copying and Pasting Text
Simple Copy and Paste
Paste Special
Pasting Text from Word: The Basic Method
Pasting Text with Word Formatting
Pasting Excel Spreadsheet Information
Importing Word and Excel Documents (Windows)
Selecting Text
Spell Checking
About Dictionaries
Performing the Check
Undo, Redo, and the History Panel
Undo
History Panel
Text Formatting
Paragraph Formatting
Paragraphs
Headlines
Preformatted Text
Paragraph Alignment
Indented Paragraphs
Creating and Formatting Lists
Bulleted and Numbered Lists
Creating a new bulleted or numbered list
Formatting existing text as a list
Reformatting Bulleted and Numbered Lists
Adding new items to a list
Formatting bullets and numbers
Nested lists
Definition Lists
Removing and Deleting List Items
Removing list items
Deleting list items
Text Styles
Introducing Cascading Style Sheets
Cascading Style Sheet Basics
Why Use CSS?
Internal vs. External Style Sheets
Types of Styles
Creating Styles
Phase 1: Set Up the CSS Type
Phase 2: Defining the Style
Creating a Style with the Property Inspector
Using Styles
Applying a Class Style
Applying a class style to text
Applying a class style to objects
Other class styling options
Removing a Class Style
Applying IDs to a Tag
Linking to an External Style Sheet
Manipulating Styles
Editing Styles
Deleting a Style
Renaming a Class Style
Duplicating a Style
Checking Browser Compatibility
Text Formatting with CSS
Choosing a Font
Applying font formatting
Creating custom font lists
Changing the Font Size
Picking a Font Color
Adding Bold and Italics
Aligning Text
CSS Type Properties in the Rule Definition Window
Block Properties
List Properties
Cascading Style Sheets Tutorial
Setting Up
Creating an External Style Sheet
Editing a Style
Adding Another Style
Creating a Class Style
Attaching an External Style Sheet
Links
Understanding Links
Absolute Links
Document-Relative Links
Root-Relative Links
Link Types in Action
Link from the Home page (index.html) to the Contact Us page (contact.html)
Link from the Horoscopes page to the Pisces page
Link from the Scorpio page to the Horoscopes page
Executive Summary
Adding a Link
Browsing for a File
Using the Point-to-File Tool
Typing (or Pasting) the URL or Path
Using the Hyperlink Object
Adding an Email Link
Linking Within a Web Page
Method 1: Creating a Named Anchor
Method 2: Adding an ID
Linking to an Anchor or ID
Viewing and Hiding Anchors
Modifying a Link
Changing a Link's Destination
Removing a Link
Styling Links
CSS and Links
Creating a Navigation Menu
Adding a Menu
Adding, Editing, and Removing Links
Changing the Look of the Menu
Formatting regular menu buttons
Formatting rollover menu buttons
Formatting submenu buttons
Changing the width of menus and buttons
Positioning pop-up menus
Removing a Spry menu
Link Tutorial
Linking to Other Pages and Web Sites
Formatting Links
Adding a Navigation Bar
Styling the Menu Bar
Submenus and Rollover Buttons
Images
Adding Images
Adding an Image Placeholder
Inserting an Image from Photoshop
Method 1: Using the Insert Image Object
JPEG optimization options
GIF and PNG8 optimization options
PNG optimization options
Method 2: Copying and Pasting from Photoshop
Modifying an Image
Adding an ID to an Image
Adding a Text Description to an Image
Changing an Image's Size
Some Properties to Avoid
Controlling Images with CSS
Wrapping Text Around an Image
Adding Borders
Background Images
Background image
Background repeat
Background attachment
Horizontal and vertical position
Editing Graphics
The Built-In Editing Tools
Cropping an image
Resampling an image
Brightness and contrast
Sharpening images
Setting Up an External Editor
Editing Smart Objects
Smart Object Warnings
Editing Images Pasted from Photoshop
Optimizing an Image
Image Maps
Editing a Hotspot's Properties
Rollover Images
Tutorial: Inserting and Formatting Graphics
Setting Up
Adding an Image
Inserting a Photoshop File
Inserting a Rollover Image
Using Background Images
Tables
Table Basics
Inserting a Table
Selecting Parts of a Table
Selecting a Table
Selecting Rows or Columns
Selecting Cells
Expanded Table Mode
Formatting Tables
Aligning Tables
Clearing Height and Width Values
Resizing a Table
Modifying Cell and Row Properties
Alignment Properties
Table Header
A Property to Forget
Cell Decoration
Setting Cell Dimensions
Tips for Surviving Table Making
The contents take priority
There's no such thing as column width-only cell width
Do the math
Adding and Removing Cells
Adding One Row or Column
Adding Multiple Rows or Columns
Deleting Rows and Columns
Merging and Splitting Cells
Tabular Data
Importing Data into a Table
Sorting Data in a Table
Exporting Table Data
Tables Tutorial
Adding a Table and Data
Modifying the Table
Formatting the Table
Final Improvements
Advanced CSS
Compound Selectors
Descendent Selectors
Descendent selectors with Class and ID styles
Styling Groups of Tags
Fast Style Editing With the Properties Pane
Moving and Managing Styles
More about CSS
Inheritance
The Cascade
The Other Side of the CSS Styles Panel
Using the Code Navigator
Styling for Print
Previewing Media Styles in Dreamweaver
Tips for Printer Style Sheets
Page Layout
Types of Web Page Layouts
Float Layout Basics
The Mighty ÷& Tag
The Insert Div Tag Tool
A Simple Example
Understanding the Box Model
Dreamweaver's CSS Layouts
The Structure of Dreamweaver's CSS Layouts
Modifying Dreamweaver's CSS Layouts
Making General Changes
Modifying Fixed Layouts
Modifying Liquid Layouts
Modifying Elastic Layouts
Absolute Positioning
The CSS Positioning Properties
Positioning type
Width and height
Visibility
Z-index
Overflow
Placement
Clip
Adding an AP Div to Your Page
Drawing AP Divs
The AP Elements Panel
Modifying AP Element Properties
Resizing Absolutely Positioned Elements
Moving AP Elements
Aligning AP Elements
Background Image and Color
Nesting AP Divs
CSS Layout Tutorial
Adding Content
Fine-Tuning the Layout
Adding Styles and Navigation
Fiddling with the Footer
Under the Hood: HTML
Roundtrip HTML
Auto-Fixing Your Code
Web Application Server Pages
Special Characters and Encoding
Code View
Coding Toolbar
Code Hints
Code Collapse
Setting Code Formatting
Indents
Text wrapping
Line breaks
Case for tags and attributes
TD tag
Advanced formatting options
Related Files
Live Code
Quick Tag Editor
Using the Quick Tag Editor
Tag Inspector
Comparing Versions of a Web Page
Using WinMerge to Compare Files
Using Text Wrangler to Compare Files
Reference Panel
Inserting JavaScript
Forms
Form Basics
The Code Backstage
Creating a Form
Adding Form Elements
What All Form Elements Have in Common
Text Fields
Checkboxes and Checkbox Groups
Checkbox Groups
Radio Buttons and Radio Groups
Radio Group
Pull-Down Menus and Lists
File Field
Hidden Field
Buttons
&label& Tag
&fieldset& Tag
Validating Forms
Spry Validation Basics
Formatting Spry Error Messages and Fields
Spry Text Field
Validation types
Custom validation
Enforcing a pattern
Supplying a hint
Limiting characters and enforcing a range of values
Spry Text Area
Spry Checkbox
Spry Select
Spry Password
Spry Confirm
Spry Radio Group
Forms Tutorial
Inserting a Form and Adding a Form Field
Adding a Spry Validation Text Field
Adding a Spry Form Menu
Adding a Spry Radio Group
Completing and Testing the Form
Spry: Creating Interactive Web Pages
What is Spry?
Tabbed Panels
Adding a Tabbed Panel
Adding and Editing Panel Content
Formatting Tabbed Panels
Accordions
Adding an Accordion
Adding and Editing Accordion Content
Formatting a Spry Accordion
Collapsible Panels
Adding a Collapsible Panel
Adding Content to a Collapsible Panel
Formatting a Collapsible Panel
Spry Tooltips
Adding a Spry Tooltip
Adding Content to a Tooltip
Formatting a Tooltip
Spry Data Sets
Storing Data in an HTML File
Storing Data in an XML File
What is XML?
Rules of the road
Inserting a Spry Data Set
Inserting HTML Data
Inserting XML Data
Choosing a Data Layout
Spry Table
Master/Detail Layout
Stacked Containers
Stacked Containers with Spotlight Area
Creating a Spry Region
The Bindings Panel
Spry Repeating Region
Spry Repeat Lists
Live View
Dreamweaver Behaviors
Understanding Behaviors
Behavior Elements
More about Events
Applying Behaviors
The Behaviors Panel
Applying Behaviors, Step by Step
Adding Multiple Behaviors
Editing Behaviors
A Quick Example
Events
Mouse Events
Keyboard Events
Body and Frameset Events
Selection and Highlighting Events
Form Events
The Actions, One by One
Spry Effects
Appear/Fade
Blind
Grow/Shrink
Highlight
Shake
Slide
Squish
Navigation Actions
Open Browser Window
Go to URL
Jump Menu and Jump Menu Go
Check Plugin
Image Actions
Preload Images
Swap Image
Swap Image Restore
Set Navigation Bar Image
Message Actions
Popup Message
Set Text of Status Bar
Set Text of Text Field
Set Text of Container
Text of Frame
Element Actions
Show-Hide Elements
Draggable and Animated Divs
Advanced Behaviors
Call JavaScript
Change Property
Adding More Behaviors
Flash and Other Multimedia
Flash: An Introduction
Inserting a Flash Movie
Flash Movie Properties
Naming a Flash movie
The movie file
Src property
Movie size
Play options
Margins
Quality settings
Scaling
Alignment
Background color
Wmode
Making It Easier to Download the Flash Plug-in
Adding Flash Videos
The Land of Obsolete Web Technology
Introducing Site Management
Structuring a Web Site
Defining a Site
Site name
Local root folder
Default images folder
Links relative to
HTTP address
Case-sensitive links
Cache
Editing or Removing Defined Sites
Exporting and Importing Sites
Organizing Site Files
Modifying the Files Panel View
Adding New Folders and Files
Adding files
Adding folders
Moving files and folders
Renaming files and folders
Deleting files and folders
Site Assets
Viewing the Assets Panel
Inserting Assets
Adding color and link assets
Favorite Assets
Identifying your Favorites
Using your Favorites
Removing Favorites
Organizing Favorite assets
Testing Your Site
Site Launch Checklist
Find and Fix Broken Links
Finding Broken Links
Checking just one page
Checking specific pages
Checking the entire Web site
Fixing Broken Links
Listing External Links
Orphaned Files
Changing a Link Throughout a Site
Validating Web Pages
Steps for Validating Web Pages
Cleaning Up HTML (and XHTML)
Site Reporting
Accessibility
Accessibility Priorities
Accessibility Options
Download Statistics
Moving Your Site to the Internet
Defining a Remote Site
Setting Up a Remote Site with FTP
Setting Up a Remote Site over a Local Network
Setting Up a Remote Site with RDS
Setting Up a Remote Site with WebDAV
Setting Up a Remote Site with SourceSafe
Transferring Files
Moving Files to the Web Server
Other ways to move files to the Web server
Getting Files from the Web Server
Cloaking Files
Check In and Check Out
Checking Out Files
Checking In Files
Synchronizing Site Files
Communicating with Design Notes
Setting Up Design Notes
Adding Design Notes to a File
Viewing Design Notes
Organizing the Columns in the Files Panel
"All Info" Design Notes in Column Views
Phase 1: Defining the new information types
Phase 2: Adding the column
Snippets and Libraries
Snippets Basics
Using Snippets
Creating Snippets
Organizing Snippets
Built-In Snippets
Library Basics
Creating and Using Library Items
Adding Library Items to a Page
Editing Library Items
Renaming Library Elements
Deleting Library Elements
Snippets and Library Tutorial
Creating a Snippet
Creating a Library Item
Templates
Template Basics
Creating a Template
Turning a Web Page into a Template
Building a Template from Scratch
Defining Editable Regions
Adding a Basic Editable Region
Adding a Repeating Region
Repeating Tables
Making a Tag Attribute Editable
Adding Optional Regions
Locking Optional Regions
Repeating Optional Regions
Optional Editable Regions
Advanced Optional Regions
Even fancier tricks
Controlling regions with expressions
Editing and Removing Optional Regions
Nested Templates
Customizing Nested Templates
Using Nested Templates
Building Pages Based on a Template
Working with Repeating Regions
Changing Properties of Editable Tag Attributes
Hiding and Showing Optional Regions
Applying Templates to Existing Pages
Updating a Template
Updating Nested Templates
Unlinking a Page from a Template
Exporting a Template-Based Site
Template Tutorial
Creating a Template
Creating a Page Based on a Template
Creating Another Template-Based Page
Updating a Template
Automating Dreamweaver
The History Panel Revisited
Replay Your Steps
Exceptions and Errors
Copying and Pasting Actions
Save Steps as Commands
Recording Commands
Find and Replace
Find and Replace Basics
Basic Text and HTML Searches
Phase 1: Determine the scope of your search
Phase 2: Specify what to search for
Phase 3: Provide the replacement text
Phase 4: Choose the search settings
Phase 5: Take action
Advanced Text Searches
Limiting the search by tag
Limiting the search by attribute
Advanced Tag Searches
A Powerful Example: Adding Alt Text Fast
Customizing Dreamweaver
Keyboard Shortcuts
Make Your Own Shortcut Set
Changing Keyboard Shortcuts
Create a Shortcut Cheat Sheet
Dreamweaver Extensions
Browse the Exchange
Find a Good Extension
Other Extension Sources
Download and Install Extensions
Extension Manager
Make Your Own Extensions
Getting Started with Dynamic Web Sites
Pieces of the Puzzle
Understanding Server Models
PHP
ASP
ColdFusion
Picking a Server Model
Dynamic Web Sites: The Setup
Setting Up a Testing Server
Windows
Mac
Localhost and the htdocs Folder
Setting Up Dreamweaver
Creating a Dynamic Page
Databases: A Quick Introduction
Tables and Records
Relational Databases
Loading a Database
Connecting to a Database
Exploring the Databases Panel
Adding Dynamic Data to Your Pages
Retrieving Information
Understanding Recordsets
Creating Recordsets
Filtering Information
Comparison Operators for Filters
Comparing text values
Comparing numbers
Getting Comparison Values
Form variables
URL parameters
Creating a link with a URL parameter
Creating the recordset for the results page
Advanced Recordsets and SQL
SQL: the very basics
Using the Data Tree view
Creating variables for filtering data
Reusing Recordsets
Editing Recordsets
Deleting Recordsets
Adding Dynamic Information
The Bindings Panel
Formatting Dynamic Information
Deleting Dynamic Information
Displaying Multiple Records
Creating a Repeating Table
Creating a Repeat Region
Editing and Removing a Repeat Region
Recordset Navigation
Recordset Navigation Bar
Recordset Navigation Status
Viewing Live Data
Live Data View Settings
Master Detail Page Set
Passing Information Between Pages
Tutorial: Displaying Database Info
Creating a Recordset
Live Data View and Creating Repeating Regions
Editing a Recordset and Linking to a Detail Page
Building the Detailed Product Page
Filling in the Details
Operators Standing By
Web Pages that Manipulate Database Records
Adding Data
Dreamweaver's Record Insertion Form Wizard
Using the Insert Record Behavior
Updating Database Records
The Update Record Form Wizard
The Update Record Server Behavior
Dynamic Form Fields
Dynamic Text Form Fields
Dynamic Checkboxes and Radio Buttons
Dynamic radio buttons
Dynamic checkboxes
Dynamic Menus and Lists
Deleting Records
Deleting Records for ASP
Deleting Records for PHP and ColdFusion
Tutorial: Inserting and Updating Data
Adding an Insert Product Page
Finishing the Insert Form
Building a Page for Editing Database Records
Linking to the update page
Creating the update page
Creating and Linking to the Delete Page
Adding a link on the details page
Creating the delete page
Advanced Dynamic Site Features
Password-Protecting Web Pages
The Users Table
Creating a Registration Form
Creating the Login Page
The Log Out User Behavior
Protecting Individual Pages
Additional Data Sources
For PHP and ColdFusion
For ASP
URL Variables
Form Variables
Cookies
Session Variables
Server Variables
Advanced Server Behaviors
Recordset Paging
Show Region Server Behaviors
Tutorial: Authentication
Building a Login Page
Password-Protecting the Administration Pages
Displaying a Portion of a Page to Logged-In Users
Server-Side XML and XSLT
Understanding the Technologies
Creating Dynamic Pages with XSLT and XML
Inserting and Formatting XML
Inserting a Repeat Region
Building a repeat-region filter
Inserting a Conditional Region
Using Multiple Conditional Regions
Advanced XSLT Tricks
Sorting Data in a Repeat Region
Using XSLT Parameters
Getting Help
Getting Help from Dreamweaver
Detailed Assistance
Getting Help from Adobe
Adobe Web Site
Paid Support
The Forums
Help from the Real World
DMX Zone
Community MX
Dreamweaver CS4, Menu by Menu
File Menu
Edit Menu
View Menu
Insert Menu
Modify Menu
Format Menu
Commands Menu
Site Menu
Window Menu
Help Menu
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