Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Unleashed

by Ruvalcaba, Zak; Pizzi, Matthew

• ISBN13: 9780672326318
• ISBN10: 0672326310
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Sams

Summary

As an experienced Macromedia Dreamweaver user, you know that it is a powerful web development tool, but you're lacking the knowledge to fully exploit the potential of the Dreamweaver environment. As a skilled website developer and programmer, you have that knowledge, but you're lacking the experience with the Dreamweaver program. Either way,Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Unleashedis what you need. The most complete guide to cover Dreamweaver MX 2004's powerful features, it will show you strategies for designing, managing and developing sophisticated websites within the Dreamweaver environment. It will also guide you through the realm of dynamic sites, which will ultimately enable a richer experience for the end user. These techniques are not covered in other intermediate-level Dreamweaver books. LetUnleashedhelp you unleash the potential of your Dreamweaver MX 2004 websites.

Author Biography

Matthew Pizzi is training director and president of Train Simple, which provides custom on-site training for many top Fortune 500 companies.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Getting Up to Speed with Dreamweaver MX 2004
What's New In Dreamweaver MX 2004	p. 5
A New Dreamweaver User Interface	p. 5
Siteless Page Editing	p. 9
Enhanced CSS Support	p. 9
Increased Integration with Other Suite Applications	p. 13
Enhanced Support for Dynamic Platforms	p. 17
Copy and Paste from Microsoft Applications	p. 17
Additional Coding Tools	p. 18
Enhanced Security Using FTP	p. 21
Troubleshooting	p. 22
Peer to Peer: Taking the Anxiety Out of CSS	p. 23
Welcome to the Dreamweaver MX 2004 Interface	p. 25
Panels and Inspectors	p. 25
Document Window	p. 45
Document Size and Web Page Dimension	p. 49
Summary	p. 50
Dreamweaver MX 2004 Site Management	p. 51
Setting Up a Web Site in Dreamweaver MX 2004	p. 51
Managing a Web Site in Dreamweaver MX 2004	p. 67
Working with the File Panel	p. 67
Synchronizing Local and Remote Files	p. 70
Working with the Site Map	p. 71
Changing Links	p. 76
Checking Links	p. 77
Using Site Reports	p. 79
Checking Browser Compatibility	p. 81
Summary	p. 83
Dreamweaver MX 2004 Essentials	p. 85
Working with Dreamweaver MX	p. 85
Working with an HTML Document	p. 86
Working in the Coding Environment	p. 91
Web Typography [left angle bracket]font[right angle bracket] Tag	p. 96
Creating Lists	p. 107
Inserting the Time and Date	p. 111
Inserting a Horizontal Rule	p. 111
Working with Hyperlinks	p. 113
Email Links	p. 114
Named Anchors	p. 114
Images on the Web	p. 116
Inserting Images into a Dreamweaver Document	p. 118
Imagemaps	p. 122
Rollover Images	p. 122
Navigation Bars	p. 124
Background Images	p. 127
Image Placeholders	p. 127
Summary	p. 128
Static Web Page Creation
Creating Tables	p. 131
Using Tables in Dreamweaver MX 2004	p. 131
Table Terminology	p. 132
Inserting and Working with Tables	p. 135
Modifying Tables	p. 138
Modifying Table Properties	p. 141
Working with Table Borders	p. 142
Adding and Deleting Rows and Columns	p. 145
Resizing Tables	p. 147
Working with Table Formats	p. 153
Sorting Tables	p. 154
Importing Tabular Data	p. 155
Layout Mode	p. 156
Drawing Cells	p. 157
Expanded Mode	p. 159
Tracing Images	p. 160
Summary	p. 160
HTML Forms	p. 161
Inserting a Form in Dreamweaver MX 2004	p. 161
Inserting Form Objects	p. 163
Real-World Forms, Building Forms That Work	p. 182
Summary	p. 186
Framesets	p. 187
Understanding Frames	p. 187
Creating Framesets and Frames	p. 191
Saving Framesets	p. 197
Modifying and Resizing Frames	p. 199
Adjusting Frame Attributes	p. 205
Changing Page Properties	p. 208
Saving, Closing, and Opening a Frame	p. 208
No Frames Content	p. 209
iFrames	p. 210
Summary	p. 210
Dreamweaver Templates	p. 211
Templates or Framesets?	p. 211
More About Templates	p. 212
Creating a Template	p. 212
Optional Regions	p. 224
Nested Templates	p. 226
Updating Template-based Pages	p. 226
Summary	p. 227
Assets and the Library	p. 229
Working with the Assets Panel	p. 229
Working with Library Items	p. 245
Summary	p. 251
Cascading Style Sheets	p. 253
A Brief Introduction to Styles	p. 253
Designing with CSS	p. 259
Style Properties	p. 263
Working with CSS Styles	p. 272
Editing CSS in Code View	p. 278
Summary	p. 289
Adding Interactivity
Behaviors	p. 293
Attaching Behaviors	p. 295
Calling JavaScript	p. 299
Change Property	p. 300
Check Browser	p. 302
Check Plug-In	p. 303
Drag Layer	p. 303
Go to URL	p. 305
Jump Menu	p. 306
Play Sound	p. 307
Pop-Up Message	p. 308
Preload Images	p. 309
Set Nav Bar Image	p. 310
Set Text	p. 310
Show-Hide Layers	p. 312
Swap Image/Swap Image Restore	p. 313
Validate Form	p. 313
Summary	p. 319
Layers in Dreamweaver	p. 321
Introduction to Layers	p. 321
Creating Layers	p. 322
Deleting a Layer	p. 326
Embedding a Layer with Style Sheets	p. 327
Inserting Content into Layers	p. 330
Sizing, Positioning, and Modifying Layers with the Properties Inspector	p. 330
Modifying Layer Properties with the Layers Panel	p. 337
Designing a Page with Layers	p. 340
Summary	p. 346
Adding Video and Audio	p. 347
Media Players	p. 347
Adding Video to Your Pages	p. 351
Embedding Video Clips	p. 352
Linking Video	p. 352
Embedding Video with the [left angle bracket]Embed[right angle bracket] Tag	p. 354
Adding Audio to a Web Page	p. 357
Summary	p. 359
Inserting Flash and Shockwave	p. 361
Creating Flash Buttons in Dreamweaver MX 2004	p. 362
Creating Flash Text in Dreamweaver MX 2004	p. 365
Inserting Flash Files	p. 367
Roundtrip Flash Editing	p. 370
Inserting Shockwave into a Dreamweaver Document	p. 373
Controlling Shockwave and Flash Movies with Behaviors	p. 375
Working with Flash Elements	p. 376
Summary	p. 379
Integration with Complementing Programs	p. 381
Specifying External Editors	p. 382
Editing Images in Dreamweaver with Fireworks	p. 383
Optimizing an Image in Dreamweaver with Fireworks	p. 386
Insert Fireworks' HTML Command	p. 391
Creating a Web Photo Album	p. 394
Using Photoshop with Dreamweaver MX 2004	p. 397
Summary	p. 398
Introduction to Web Applications
Introduction to Web Applications	p. 401
Terminology	p. 404
Middleware Options	p. 412
Database Options	p. 415
Summary	p. 417
Web Application Preparation	p. 419
Introduction	p. 419
Setting Up the Web Server	p. 419
Setting Up the Application Server	p. 428
Choosing a Database	p. 434
Summary	p. 438
Dreamweaver MX 2004 for Application Development	p. 439
Create a Connection with a Data Source Name (DSN)	p. 440
Custom Connection Strings	p. 446
Summary	p. 450
Middleware
ASP and ASP.NET	p. 453
Introduction to ASP	p. 453
Introduction to ASP.NET	p. 462
Beyond Dreamweaver MX 2004	p. 472
Summary	p. 478
PHP and MySQL	p. 479
Introducing PHP	p. 479
Working with MySQL	p. 481
Working with Dreamweaver MX for PHP/MySQL Development	p. 490
Summary	p. 504
ColdFusion	p. 505
Introduction to ColdFusion	p. 505
Code Snippets	p. 533
Code Debugging in Dreamweaver	p. 535
Summary	p. 538
Database-Driven Pages
Database Primer	p. 541
What Is a Database?	p. 542
The Database Management System (DBMS)	p. 543
The Database	p. 544
Beyond the Basics	p. 547
Designing the Web Store Database	p. 555
Creating Relationships Between the Tables	p. 563
Summary	p. 566
SQL Primer	p. 567
The Structured Query Language	p. 567
Basic SQL	p. 568
Expressions	p. 576
Operators	p. 577
Functions	p. 579
Joins	p. 583
Subqueries	p. 586
Using Access to Generate Queries	p. 587
Summary	p. 591
Working with Dynamic Data	p. 593
Building the Web Store Application Using ASP	p. 593
Creating the View Catalog Page	p. 593
Building the Web Store Application Using ASP.NET	p. 618
Creating the View Catalog Page	p. 619
Live Data View	p. 644
Summary	p. 645
Modifying the Database	p. 647
Creating the Web Store New User Registration Page Using ASP	p. 647
Creating the My Account Page Using ASP	p. 662
Building the Web Store New User Registration Page Using ASP.NET	p. 671
Creating the My Account Page Using ASP.NET	p. 681
Using ASP Application Objects to Create an Admin Page	p. 686
Summary	p. 696
SQL Search Page	p. 697
SQL Search	p. 698
Summary	p. 730
Adding Shopping Cart Functionality	p. 731
Creating the Web Store Shopping Cart	p. 732
Building an ASP.NET Shopping Cart	p. 757
Summary	p. 770
Security and User Authentication	p. 773
Securing the Web Store	p. 773
Securing ASP.NET Applications	p. 793
Summary	p. 805
XML Web Services	p. 807
Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Web Services Integration	p. 808
A Simple Calculator Web Service	p. 809
An Introduction to WSDL and the Google Search Web Service	p. 817
Building the Google Search Web Application	p. 822
Web Service and Database Interaction	p. 830
Summary	p. 836
Appendixes
Accessibility	p. 839
Accessibility Standards	p. 839
Accessibility Reference	p. 856
Summary	p. 861
Extending Dreamweaver MX 2004	p. 863
Working with Objects	p. 863
Working with Behaviors	p. 869
Customizing Dreamweaver MX 2004's Menus Using menus.xml	p. 881
Sharing Extensions Through the Macromedia Exchange	p. 885
The Server Behavior Builder	p. 891
Server Behaviors	p. 891
Summary	p. 901
General Resources	p. 903
Reference Links	p. 903
Database Conversion (Upsizing)	p. 909
Troubleshooting Dreamweaver MX 2004 Application Development Errors	p. 911
Index	p. 913
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