Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual

The Missing Credits
Preface

Part 1: Building a Web Page
1. Dreamweaver CS6 Guided Tour
-The Dreamweaver CS6 Interface
-Setting Up a Site
-Creating a Web Page
-Managing Files and Folders with the Files Panel
-The Dreamweaver Test Drive

2. Adding and Formatting Text
-Adding Text in Dreamweaver
-Adding Special Characters
-Selecting Text
-HTML Formatting
-Paragraph Formatting
-Creating and Formatting Lists
-Text Styles
-Spell Checking

3. Introducing Cascading Style Sheets
-Cascading Style Sheet Basics
-Creating Styles
-Using Styles
-Manipulating Styles
-Text Formatting with CSS
-Cascading Style Sheets Tutorial

4. Links
-Understanding Links
-Adding a Link
-Adding an Email Link
-Linking Within a Web Page
-Modifying a Link
-Styling Links
-Creating a Navigation Menu
-Link Tutorial

5. Images
-Adding Images
-Inserting an Image from Photoshop
-Modifying an Image
-Controlling Images with CSS
-Editing Graphics
-Image Maps
-Rollover Images
-Tutorial: Inserting and Formatting Graphics

6. Tables
-Table Basics
-Inserting a Table
-Selecting Parts of a Table
-Expanded Table Mode
-Formatting Tables
-Modifying Cell and Row Properties
-Adding and Removing Cells
-Merging and Splitting Cells
-Tabular Data
-Tables Tutorial

7. HTML: Under the Hood
-Controlling How Dreamweaver Handles HTML
-Code View
-Live Code
-Quick Tag Editor
-The Tag Inspector
-Comparing Versions of a Web Page
-Reference Panel
-Inserting JavaScript

Part 2: Building a Better Web Page
8. Advanced CSS
-Compound Selectors
-Fast Style Editing with the Properties Pane
-Moving and Managing Styles
-More About CSS
-Using the Code Navigator
-Styling for Print
-CSS Transitions
-Using CSS3
-Advanced CSS Tutorial

9. Page Layout
-Types of Web Page Layouts
-Float Layout Basics
-Understanding the Box Model
-Dreamweaver's CSS Layouts
-Modifying Dreamweaver's CSS Layouts
-Absolute Positioning
-Adding an AP Element to Your Page
-Modifying AP Element Properties
-CSS Layout Tutorial

10. Troubleshooting CSS
-Analyzing CSS with Dreamweaver
-Overcoming Common CSS Problems

11. Designing Websites for Mobile Devices
-Previewing Pages at Different Resolutions
-Media Queries
-Strategies for Using Media Queries
-Fluid Grid Layouts
-jQuery Mobile

Part 3: Bringing Your Pages to Life
12. Forms
-Form Basics
-Creating a Form
-Adding Form Elements
-Validating Forms
-Forms Tutorial

13. Adding Interactivity with JavaScript
-Introducing Adobe's Spry Framework
-Tabbed Panels
-Accordions
-Collapsible Panels
-Spry Tooltips
-Spry Data Sets
-Dreamweaver Behaviors
-Applying Dreamweaver Behaviors
-Events
-(Some of) the Actions, One by One
-The Widget Browser

14. Add Flash and Other Multimedia
-Flash: An Introduction
-Automate the Flash Download
-Add Flash Videos
-Other Video Options

Part 4: Managing a Website
15. Introducing Site Management
-The Structure of a Website
-Setting Up a Site (in Depth)
-Managing Dreamweaver Sites
-Site Assets

16. Testing Your Site
-Site Launch Checklist
-Previewing Web Pages in BrowserLab
-Find and Fix Broken Links
-Validating Web Pages
-Cleaning Up HTML (and XHTML)
-Site Reporting
-Download Statistics

17. Moving Your Site to the Internet
-Adding a Remote Server
-Transferring Files
-Check In and Check Out
-Synchronizing Site Files
-Communicating with Design Notes

Part 5: Dreamweaver CS6 Power
18. Snippets and Libraries
-Snippets Basics
-Using Snippets
-Creating Snippets
-Built-In Snippets
-Library Basics
-Creating and Using Library Items
-Editing Library Items
-Snippets and Library Tutorial

19. Templates
-Template Basics
-Creating a Template
-Defining Editable Regions
-Building Pages Based on a Template
-Updating a Template
-Using Repeating Regions
-Using Editable Tag Attributes
-Using Optional Regions
-Exporting a Template-Based Site
-Template Tutorial

20. Find and Replace
-Find and Replace Basics
-Basic Text and HTML Searches
-Advanced Text Searches
-Advanced Tag Searches
-A Powerful Example: Adding Alt Text Fast

21. Customizing Dreamweaver
-Keyboard Shortcuts
-Dreamweaver Extensions

22. Working with Server-Side Programming
-Pieces of the Puzzle
-Dynamic Websites: The Setup
-Creating a Dynamic Page
-Using Server-Side Includes
-Working with Related PHP Files
-PHP Code Hints

Appendix A: Getting Help
Appendix B: Dreamweaver CS6, Menu by Menu

Index