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Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 Digital Classroom
Digital Classroom Series, Vol. 115
Author: Osborn Jeremy
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Learn Dreamweaver CS6 at your own speed with this complete training package
Dreamweaver is the industry standard software for professional website design, with more than 90 percent of the market. In this book-and-DVD package, expert instructors provide a complete course in basic Dreamweaver that you can access at your own speed. Step-by-step instructions in the book are supported by lesson files and video tutorials on the DVD, presenting the newest version of Dreamweaver in 16 self-paced lessons. You'll learn to use style sheets, dynamic HTML, multimedia, databases, and much more to design, develop, and maintain your website.
- Newcomers to website development will learn to design and maintain fully functioning sites using the newest version of Dreamweaver with this book-and-DVD package
- The self-paced lessons cover applying style sheets, using dynamic HTML, adding style with images and multimedia, publishing and maintaining a website, and using databases to create dynamic websites
- Shows how to use hyperlinks to navigate throughout a website or link to other sites on the Internet and how to format web pages and forms
- Created by a team of Adobe experts who have developed training programs for Adobe Systems
Dreamweaver CS6 Digital Classroom is the next best thing to having a personal tutor teach you this award-winning software.
Note: DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of the e-book file, but are available for download after purchase.
About Dreamweaver Digital Classroom 1
Prerequisites 1
System requirements 1
Starting Adobe Dreamweaver 3
Resetting the Dreamweaver workspace 3
Loading lesson files 4
Working with the video tutorials 5
Setting up for viewing the video tutorials 5
Viewing the video tutorials with the Adobe Flash Player 6
Hosting your websites 7
Additional resources 7
Lesson 1: Dreamweaver CS6 Jumpstart
Starting up 9
What is Dreamweaver? 10
Design and layout tools 10
Site management and File Transfer Protocol 11
Coding environment and text editor 11
Mobile design and development features 12
Who uses Dreamweaver? 12
Dreamweaver’s workspace features 13
Live View and Live Code 16
CSS Inspection and the Enable/Disable Feature 17
Related files 18
Code Navigator 19
Photoshop smart objects 20
Support for Content Management Systems 20
HTML5, CSS3, and PHP code hinting 21
HTML and CSS Starter Pages 21
Subversion 22
Business Catalyst integration 22
How websites work 22
A simple flow chart 22
Domain names and IP addresses 23
Servers and web hosts 23
The role of web browsers 23
An introduction to HTML 24
Tag structure and attributes 24
The structure of an HTML document 27
Placing images in HTML 28
Colors in HTML 30
Case sensitivity and whitespace rules 31
Element hierarchy 33
XHTML 1.0 Transitional 33
What’s the difference? 33
Explorations in code 34
A look at the Welcome Screen 35
Creating, opening, and saving documents 36
Creating new documents 36
Self study 38
Review 38
Lesson 2: Setting Up a New Site
Starting up 39
Creating a new site 40
Advanced site-creation options 43
Adding pages 45
Saving a page to your site 48
Defining page properties 49
Work views 55
A deeper look into the Files panel 58
Viewing local files 59
Selecting and editing files 59
Self study 61
Review 61
Lesson 3: Adding Text and Images
Starting up 63
Typography and images on the Web 64
Adding text 64
An introduction to styles 69
Previewing pages in a web browser 73
Understanding hyperlinks 74
Creating hyperlinks 75
Relative versus absolute hyperlinks 77
Linking to an e-mail address 79
Creating lists 80
Using the Text Insert panel 82
Inserting images 83
Image resolution 83
Image formats 83
Creating a simple gallery page 84
Linking images 87
Using image placeholders 88
Editing images 89
Adjusting brightness and contrast 89
Optimizing images 90
Updating images 91
Self study 92
Review 92
Lesson 4: Styling Your Pages with CSS
Starting up 93
What are Cascading Style Sheets? 94
CSS replaces inefficient HTML styling 95
The benefits of CSS styling 96
How do you create CSS rules in Dreamweaver? 98
Understanding Style Sheets 102
Understanding why they’re called Cascading 105
Creating and modifying styles 106
Creating a class style with the Property Inspector 108
Creating and modifying styles in the CSS Styles panel 111
Advanced text formatting with CSS 112
Fine-tuning page appearance with contextual and pseudo-class selectors 115
Div tags and CSS IDs 119
Internal versus external style sheets 120
Attaching an external style sheet to your page 122
Modifying attached style sheets 122
Creating a new .css file (external style sheet) 124
Self study 126
Review 126
Lesson 5: Creating Page Layouts with CSS
Starting up 127
The CSS Box model 128
The basics of CSS margins, padding, and borders 128
Reviewing the element 129
Reviewing the ID selector 129
Creating a centered container for your page 132
Making layouts cross-browser compatible 135
Absolute versus relative positioning 136
Positioning content with AP Divs 138
Creating a header section with the Draw AP Div 139
Adding an introduction section to your page 142
Adding images to your layout 144
Photoshop integration 145
Adding Main and Sidebar content areas 146
Adding additional content and styles 148
Setting margins and borders 149
Overriding default margins in CSS 150
Adding borders to elements 151
Future proofing your layout 152
The pros and cons of Absolutely Positioned CSS layouts 153
Self study 156
Review 156
Lesson 6: Advanced Page Layout Starting up 157
Layout with AP divs versus layout with floats 158
Creating a floated image 159
Creating columns with HTML and CSS 161
Creating the HTML Structure with div elements 161
Setting the width and floating the columns 163
Using the clear property 165
Creating a list-based navigation bar 166
Changing column layout and size 172
Creating the appearance of equal height columns 175
Browser compatibility 178
Adding code for IE 6 178
Applying finishing touches 179
Creating more sophisticated layouts 180
Dreamweaver Fluid Grid Layout 181
Self study 182
Review 182
Lesson 7: CSS3 Transitions and Web Fonts
Starting up 183
Understanding the role of CSS3 184
Adding a CSS Transition 184
Modifying a CSS Transition 190
Adding CSS Transitions to a navigation menu 196
The basics of web fonts 199
Adding web fonts to your site 200
Styling your heading with a web font 205
Self study 208
Review 208
Lesson 8: Working with Tables
Starting up 209
Using tables in web design 210
Importing table data 210
Selecting table elements 213
Modifying table size 215
Modifying table structure 217
Creating a table 219
Formatting and styling tables in HTML 221
Formatting and styling tables with CSS 226
Advanced CSS styling of tables 229
Controlling cell alignment, padding, and borders with CSS 232
Creating alternate row styling with CSS 234
Reusing CSS for other tables 236
Data sorting tables 238
Self study 240
Review 240
Lesson 9: Fine-Tuning Your Workflow Starting up 241
Customizing panels and panel groups 242
Using the Favorites tab on the Insert bar 245
Resizing the document window 246
Changing the Zoom level 249
Using guides 250
Using grids 253
The tag selector 255
Tiling documents 256
Self study 257
Review 257
Lesson 10: Adding Flash, Video, and Sound Content
Starting up 259
Making web content interesting 260
Inserting Flash movies 260
Adding video 263
Flash Video 263
QuickTime video and Windows Media 266
Inserting sound 269
Self study 272
Review 272
Lesson 11: Maximizing Site Design
Starting up 273
Creating modular page elements 274
Introducing snippets 274
The Snippets panel 275
Creating new snippets 276
Introducing library items 280
Modifying and updating library items 282
Introducing templates 285
Creating a new template 285
Working with editable regions 286
Creating new pages from templates 287
Modifying templates 289
Repeating regions 290
Putting repeating regions into action 291
Detach from Template command 293
Self study 294
Review 294
Lesson 12: Working with Code-editing Features
Starting up 295
Working with code 296
Accessing code with the Quick Tag editor 296
Inserting tags with the Tag Chooser 298
Inserting and editing comments 299
Using HTML5 Code-hinting 300
Working in the Code view 302
Modifying the Code view workspace 303
The Coding toolbar 305
Collapsing and expanding tags and code blocks 307
Validating your code 308
Highlighting and correcting invalid code 308
Running a Report 309
Formatting code 311
Indenting 313
Self study 314
Review 314
Lesson 13: Building Web Forms
Starting up 315
The basics of HTML forms 316
How forms work 316
Building a contact form 317
Inserting the tag 317
Titling your documents with the tag 432
Adding meta keywords and descriptions 435
Launching your site 436
Site Launch Checklist 436
Uploading your site 437
Getting help and using the reference guides 438
The Reference panel 439
Suggested next steps 439
Website design resources 440
Self study 441
Review 441
Lesson 17: Dreamweaver CS6 New Features
What’s new in Dreamweaver CS6? 443
Fluid Grid Layout 444
CSS transitions 446
Web fonts 447
jQuery Mobile Swatches 448
PhoneGap Build Service 448
New Features in Dreamweaver CS5.5 449
CSS3 and HTML5 authoring support 449
jQuery Mobile integration 450
Support for building native mobile apps for iOS and Android with PhoneGap 451
W3C Validation 451
Jeremy Osborn is Training Director at American Graphics Institute and an expert on web and interactive technology. He is a member of the AGI Creative Team, which develops and delivers training programs for creative, marketing, and communications professionals through the American Graphics Institute.
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