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 Part I—Laying the Groundwork in Dreamweaver CS3Part I takes you all the way to setting up your first site. Part II—Designing and Crafting Core Pages Chapter 6 describes what you need to know about the overall structure of a Web page, including the all-important <meta> tags. In this chapter 7, you learn the basics of CSS, as well as how to define and apply styles in Dreamweaver.In Chapters 8, 9, and 10, you explore how to completely incorporate these elements. Part III—Adding Advanced Design Features Chapter 11 examines this brave new world of pixel-perfect positioning, AP elements that fly in and then disappear as if by magic, and Web sites that can change their look and feel at the click of a mouse. Chapter 12 offers an in-depth look at the capabilities of Dreamweaver behaviors. These bring a great deal of interactivity to AP elements specifically and to your Web page in general. Chapter 13 explores the various uses of tables—from a clear presentation of data to organizing entire Web pages. Part IV—Incorporating Dynamic Data Chapter 19 begins an in-depth investigation of Dreamweaver’s power to create dynamic Web pages by describing how to set up your basic connections and recordsets. Chapter 20 explains how to insert text from a data source onto your Web page and how to format it after it’s incorporated. Chapter 21 continues the exploration by delving into Dreamweaver’s powerful Repeat Region server behavior as well as discussing techniques for hiding and showing your data at will. One of Dreamweaver’s most useful features, the Live Data Preview, is examined extensively in Chapter 22. Chapter 23 enters the world of multipage applications and explains how variables and other data can be passed from one page to another. Part V—Including Multimedia Elements Graphics remain the key medium on the Web today, and Adobe’s graphics programs are the world leaders. Chapter 24 delves into methods for incorporating both Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Fireworks graphics as well as graphics management through Adobe Bridge. Chapter 25 explores the possibilities offered by incorporating Flash and Shockwave movies into Dreamweaver-designed Web pages and includes everything you need to know about configuring MIME types. Chapter 26 covers digital video in its many forms—downloadable AVI files, streaming RealVideo displays, panoramic QuickTime movies, and the newest, hottest media: Flash video. Chapter 27 focuses on digital audio, with coverage of standard WAV and MIDI sound files as well as the newer streaming audio formats like MP3. Part VI—Enhancing Productivity and Web Site Management Chapter 28 starts off with a look at the use of Dreamweaver Templates and how they can speed up production while ensuring a unified look and feel across your Web site. Chapter 29 covers the Library, which can significantly reduce any Webmaster’s workload by providing reusable—and updatable—page elements. In Chapter 31, you see how you can tie Dreamweaver into an existing Visual SourceSafe or WebDAV version control system. Other new features covered include custom file view columns and enhanced Design Notes accessibility. Chapter 32 shows you how to apply this fast-approaching technology of tomorrow in Dreamweaver today, with a special section on Dreamweaver CS3’s new XML/XSLT technology. Part VII—Extending Dreamweaver Chapter 33 explores the brave new world of Dreamweaver extensibility, with complete coverage of using and building commands as well as custom tags, translators, floaters, and C-level extensions.Finally, Chapter 34 examines server behaviors, describing every standard one in detail and then exploring the use of the Server Behavior Builder, Dreamweaver’s tool for creating custom server behaviors. Download ebook on dreamweaver: Dreamweaver CS3 Bible - Joseph Lowery
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