Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Magic

by Foti, Massimo; Buraglia, Angela C.; Short, Daniel; Cavanaugh, Kim; Celic, Danilo; French, Kevin; Halstead, Brad; Martinez, Joel; Sullivan, Stephanie; Summers, Murray; Zubler, Edoardo

• ISBN13: 9780735713789
• ISBN10: 0735713782
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback w/CD
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: New Riders Press

Summary

As a serious Web designer or developer, you'll want to do one thing and one thing only when you lay your hands on the latest version of Dreamweaver: Start tinkering with all its new features. Problem is that's hard to do on someone else's dime. With Dreamweaver MX 2004 Magic, you don't have to! In these pages, Dreamweaver wizardsMossimo Foti, Angela C. Buraglia,andDaniel Shortand several other experts draw on their own professional experience to offer 12 real-world projects that let you explore Dreamweaver MX 2004 at your leisure. With a focus on areas that can be troublesome for professional users-whether because they present thorny issues or because they draw on completely new features-each lesson provides need-to-know tips, proven techniques, and best practices. By working through the step-by-step tutorials (whose project files and code you'll find on the accompanying CD), you soon will be finding your way around all of Dreamweaver MX 2004's new features: dynamic cross-browser validation, improved CSS support, built-in graphics editing, and more. In addition to the code listings and exercise files on the CD-ROM, you¿ll find videos that clearly demonstrate step by step all the procedures you need to complete in order to create the projects.

Table of Contents

About the Magic Series

How to Make the Most of This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

Using CSS to Position and Style Your Pages

It Works Like This

Preparing to Work

Creating the Structure for the Page

Creating Buttons and Background Shapes

Taking Font and Link Styling to the Next Level

Selectors, Siblings, Descendants, and the Cascade

Now Try This

Creating Toggle-O-Matic Menus

It Works Like This

Preparing to Work

Forging Friendly Hyperlinks to Submenus

Time to Identify: ID Attributes for Menu Buttons

Getting Classified

Containing the Menu with

Tags

Inserting Submenu

Tags

Design Time CSS to the Rescue

CSS Requirements

Toggling with Extensions

Now Try This

Managing Navigation Button States in Template-Controlled Sites

It Works Like This

Preparing to Work

Using Editable Regions

Using JavaScript and Editable Regions

Using Optional Regions

Now Try This

Controlling Navigation Elements with Templates

It Works Like This

Preparing to Work

Controlling Document Meta Data

Modifying the Submenu System

Validating the Template

Creating the Site Pages in Contribute

Now Try This

Integrating Dreamweaver and Fireworks in Your Projects

It Works Like This

Preparing to Work

Setting Up Dreamweaver's Launch and Edit in Fireworks Feature

Creating Fireworks Color Palettes for One-Click Access in Dreamweaver

Using Dreamweaver Image Placeholders to Design a Web Page Layout

Converting Dreamweaver Image Placeholders to Images in Fireworks

Creating Dreamweaver Library Items Within Fireworks

Editing Image Library Items in Dreamweaver

Now Try This

Translating a Fireworks Layout into a CSS + HTML Design

It Works Like This

Preparing to Work

Getting the into Shape

Styling the Tables with CSS

Styling Individual Cell Properties with the Tag Inspector

Styling Page Content with CSS Selectors

Styling Individual Objects with Custom Classes

Styling Navigation Links

Inserting One Lone

Now Try This

Using Flash in Dreamweaver

It Works Like This

Preparing to Work

Editing Library Items

Using Dreamweaver Flash Text

Inserting Library Item Instances into Documents

Using FlashVars

Using the Flash Date Picker Extension

Now Try This

Sending a Form to Email

It Works Like This

Preparing to Work

Adding Styling to Your Pages with CSS

Add a Contact Form

Add a Table for Form Layout

Adding Text Fields

Inserting a Radio Button Group

Inserting a Select List and Assigning the Default Display Item

Adding Check Boxes for Multiple Selectable Options

Placing a Textarea to Accept Freeform Text Entry

Placing Buttons to Submit and Reset the Form

Build a Form-to-Email Processing Page with Server Behaviors

Editing an Existing Server Behavior

Now Try This

Setting Styles Dynamically

It Works Like This

Preparing to Work

Setting Up Your Base Styles

Build Color Scheme Style Sheets

Creating Color-Friendly Images

Using the CSS Switcher Extensions

Now Try This

Project 10

It Works Like This

Preparing to Work

Serving Rotating Banner Ads

Uploading Files by Applying a Server Behavior

Creating an Upload Page for Ad Administration

Prepare a Database Connection to Track Click-Through Traffic

Writing the ADO.NET Code to Track Click-Throughs

Now Try This

Project 11

It Works Like This

Preparing to Work

Designing with

Tags and Includes

Creating the Includes

Powering the Content Switcher with Server.Execute

Now Try This

Producing a Sophisticated Interface for CMS with ColdFusion

It Works Like Thi

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