Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual

by David McFarland

Overview

Dreamweaver CS6 is the most capable website design and management program yet, but there’s no printed guide to its amazing features. That’s where Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual comes in. You’ll learn to use every facet of this versatile program, through jargon-free explanations and 13 hands-on tutorials.

The important stuff you need to know:

• Get A to Z guidance. Go from building simple web pages to creating rich, interactive websites.
• Learn state-of-the-art design. Create dynamic, visually appealing sites using JavaScript and CSS, and see how HTML5 and CSS3 fit in.
• Add instant interactivity. Use Dreamweaver’s unique Spry technology to easily add complex layout options, like drop-down menus.
• Use timesaving features. Take advantage of Dreamweaver’s libraries, templates, and hundreds of extensions.
• Go mobile. Design sites for smartphones, tablets, and desktop PCs, using the same HTML.
• Simplify site management. Check for broken links, streamline site-wide changes, and reorganize your site in a snap.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449316174
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/23/2012
Pages:	1032
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.20(h) x 2.00(d)

About the Author

David Sawyer McFarland is president of Sawyer McFarland Media, Inc., a Web development and training company in Portland, Oregon. He's been building websites since 1995, when he designed an online magazine for communication professionals. He's served as webmaster at the University of California at Berkeley and the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center, and oversaw a complete CSS-driven redesign of Macworld.com. David is also a writer and trainer, and teaches in the Portland State Universitymultimedia program. He wrote the bestselling Missing Manual titles on Adobe Dreamweaver, CSS, and JavaScript.

Table of Contents

• The Missing Credits
  
• Preface
  
• Part 1: Building a Web Page
  
  • Chapter 1: Dreamweaver CS6 Guided Tour
    
  • Chapter 2: Adding and Formatting Text
    
  • Chapter 3: Introducing Cascading Style Sheets
    
  • Chapter 4: Links
    
  • Chapter 5: Images
    
  • Chapter 6: Tables
    
  • Chapter 7: HTML: Under the Hood
    
  
  
  
  
• Part 2: Building a Better Web Page
  
  • Chapter 8: Advanced CSS
    
  • Chapter 9: Page Layout
    
  • Chapter 10: Troubleshooting CSS
    
  • Chapter 11: Designing Websites for Mobile Devices
    
  
  
  
  
• Part 3: Bringing Your Pages to Life
  
  • Chapter 12: Forms
    
  • Chapter 13: Adding Interactivity with JavaScript
    
  • Chapter 14: Add Flash and Other Multimedia
    
  
  
  
  
• Part 4: Managing a Website
  
  • Chapter 15: Introducing Site Management
    
  • Chapter 16: Testing Your Site
    
  • Chapter 17: Moving Your Site to the Internet
    
  
  
  
  
• Part 5: Dreamweaver CS6 Power
  
  • Chapter 18: Snippets and Libraries
    
  • Chapter 19: Templates
    
  • Chapter 20: Find and Replace
    
  • Chapter 21: Customizing Dreamweaver
    
  • Chapter 22: Working with Server-Side Programming
    
  • Getting Help
    
  • Dreamweaver CS6, Menu by Menu