About This Book
This is a reference book, which means you can jump around from chapter to chapter reading whatever section you want as the need arises. Don’t feel locked into the idea of reading the book from cover to cover. In fact, think of each minibook as its own little reference zone where each zone is split into chapters about performing specific tasks in Dreamweaver 8.
Everything you find in this book is written so you don’t have to wade through complicated technical help files or have to commit anything to memory. Tokeep things simple, you’ll find detailed, step-by-step, easy-to-follow instruc¬tions. When more technical information is needed to clarify a particular process, it’s often set apart from the main text in sidebars or noted in the margins with a Technical Stuff icon.
The bottom line is that we want to make you comfortable with Dreamweaver 8 and hope that you’ll continue to use this book frequently and consider it the main resource of your Web-design library.
Conventions Used in This Book
To help with new terms and concepts, the following typographical rules or conventions are used in this book:
♦ New terms: New terms are set apart with italics. For example:
Dreamweaver 8 comes with the commonly used JavaScripts, which it refers to as behaviors, ready to insert into your pages from the Behaviors panel.
♦ Code samples: We include short code samples in monospaced text within the paragraph, like this: . We set longer code samples apart from the text, like this:
For the times when we want to draw your attention to particular parts of code samples, we indicate the important parts in bold, as in this example:
.
♦ Reader entry: Anything you need to type is in boldface.
♦ Cross-platform: Whenever PCs and Macs have different shortcuts, we include both the Windows equivalent (right-click) and the Mac equiva¬lent (Control+click).
♦ Web addresses: Web addresses are set apart in monofont, such as
www.macromedia.com.
What You Don’t Have to Read
You don’t have to read any part of this book that doesn’t interest you. For example, if you never intend to use Fireworks, skip that chapter! And if you see a technical sidebar that covers more technical information than you care to know, pass it by. The main thing is that you know what is available and only read what is useful to you.
How This Book Is Organized
This book is divided into nine minibooks, each of which is further divided into relevant chapters organized by topic. Each minibook relates to the most important concepts in Dreamweaver.
Book I: Getting Started
Begin your trip into the world of Web design with a look around the Dreamweaver workspace and a review of site design. Then find out how to create and manage sites in Dreamweaver — an important step that enables you to take full advantage of Dreamweaver’s automated features.
Book II: Mastering the Basics
Book II shows you everything you need to know to create new documents; add and format text on a page; insert graphics and create rollover buttons; convert text and graphics into clickable links to other Web pages; add movies, sound, and other media files to your pages; add tables for organizing content; and build fantastic forms for collecting data from visitors.
Book III: Working Like the Pros
Book III walks you through the process of styling your pages with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), building sites using Dreamweaver templates, and using Library items. You also find out about using server-side includes, creating and using code snippets, and recording and saving custom commands with the History panel. The final chapter in this minibook contains information on using Dreamweaver with Fireworks for roundtrip image optimization.
Book IV: Energizing Your Site
When you’re ready to add more zing and pizzazz to your pages, turn to Book IV. Here you find out how to work with layers instead of tables, create oppor¬tunities for visitor interactivity by adding JavaScript behaviors to objects onyour pages, and design pages built with frames. The final chapter in this minibook shows you all about the benefits of XHTML and how to configure Dreamweaver to write XHTML-compliant code.
Book V: Publishing Your Site
Book V shows you how to run Dreamweaver’s reports and use other tools to test and fix any errors before you publish your site. You also find out how to select and set up a remote connection to your host server and transfer files to the remote site.
Book VI: Working Collaboratively
Macromedia’s Contribute 3 is a software program that allows nondesigners to edit and update content on live Web pages through a special interface — all without needing to know any HTML or Dreamweaver. Book VI contains information on setting up, connecting to, and managing a Contribute site.
Book VII: Building Web Applications
This minibook discusses how to select and add Web and application servers along with how to configure, edit, and delete database connections. When working with databases, troubleshooting problems is important, so we also discuss resolving permission problems, database connection issues, and error messages.
Book VIII: Making Pages Dynamic
In this minibook, you find out how to define data sources and make them available for use in your dynamic pages. We also show you how to add simple dynamic data to your Web pages, as well as create HTML tables for your recordsets, navigate through your recordsets, and dynamically control them. In addition, you discover how to test the functionality of your dynamic site by using Dreamweaver’s Live Data view. This minibook also includes a chapter on working with ColdFusion components, adding Web services to your site, and putting custom server behaviors to work.
Book IX: Developing Applications Rapidly
Book IX shows you how to build master and detail pages, search and results pages, and record insert, update, and delete pages. We also get into more complicated territory, such as calling ASP command objects, working with JSP prepared statements, and using stored procedures. Finally, you find out how to restrict site access.
♦ Reader entry: Anything you need to type is in boldface.
♦ Cross-platform: Whenever PCs and Macs have different shortcuts, we include both the Windows equivalent (right-click) and the Mac equiva¬lent (Control+click).
♦ Web addresses: Web addresses are set apart in monofont, such as
www.macromedia.com.
What You Don’t Have to Read
You don’t have to read any part of this book that doesn’t interest you. For example, if you never intend to use Fireworks, skip that chapter! And if you see a technical sidebar that covers more technical information than you care to know, pass it by. The main thing is that you know what is available and only read what is useful to you.
How This Book Is Organized
This book is divided into nine minibooks, each of which is further divided into relevant chapters organized by topic. Each minibook relates to the most important concepts in Dreamweaver.
Book I: Getting Started
Begin your trip into the world of Web design with a look around the Dreamweaver workspace and a review of site design. Then find out how to create and manage sites in Dreamweaver — an important step that enables you to take full advantage of Dreamweaver’s automated features.
Book II: Mastering the Basics
Book II shows you everything you need to know to create new documents; add and format text on a page; insert graphics and create rollover buttons; convert text and graphics into clickable links to other Web pages; add movies, sound, and other media files to your pages; add tables for organizing content; and build fantastic forms for collecting data from visitors.
Book III: Working Like the Pros
Book III walks you through the process of styling your pages with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), building sites using Dreamweaver templates, and using Library items. You also find out about using server-side includes, creating and using code snippets, and recording and saving custom commands with the History panel. The final chapter in this minibook contains information on using Dreamweaver with Fireworks for roundtrip image optimization.
Book IV: Energizing Your Site
When you’re ready to add more zing and pizzazz to your pages, turn to Book IV. Here you find out how to work with layers instead of tables, create oppor¬tunities for visitor interactivity by adding JavaScript behaviors to objects onyour pages, and design pages built with frames. The final chapter in this minibook shows you all about the benefits of XHTML and how to configure Dreamweaver to write XHTML-compliant code.
Book V: Publishing Your Site
Book V shows you how to run Dreamweaver’s reports and use other tools to test and fix any errors before you publish your site. You also find out how to select and set up a remote connection to your host server and transfer files to the remote site.
Book VI: Working Collaboratively
Macromedia’s Contribute 3 is a software program that allows nondesigners to edit and update content on live Web pages through a special interface — all without needing to know any HTML or Dreamweaver. Book VI contains information on setting up, connecting to, and managing a Contribute site.
Book VII: Building Web Applications
This minibook discusses how to select and add Web and application servers along with how to configure, edit, and delete database connections. When working with databases, troubleshooting problems is important, so we also discuss resolving permission problems, database connection issues, and error messages.
Book VIII: Making Pages Dynamic
In this minibook, you find out how to define data sources and make them available for use in your dynamic pages. We also show you how to add simple dynamic data to your Web pages, as well as create HTML tables for your recordsets, navigate through your recordsets, and dynamically control them. In addition, you discover how to test the functionality of your dynamic site by using Dreamweaver’s Live Data view. This minibook also includes a chapter on working with ColdFusion components, adding Web services to your site, and putting custom server behaviors to work.
Book IX: Developing Applications Rapidly
Book IX shows you how to build master and detail pages, search and results pages, and record insert, update, and delete pages. We also get into more complicated territory, such as calling ASP command objects, working with JSP prepared statements, and using stored procedures. Finally, you find out how to restrict site access.
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