Dreamweaver 8: The Missing Manual

Author:David Sawyer McFarland
First Edition December 2005
Series: The Missing Manuals
ISBN: 0-596-10056-6
952 pages, $44.95 US, $62.95 CA, £31.99 UK

Live examples

Annotated. step-by-step tutorials guide you through the construction of a state-of-the-art commercial Web site, complete with Flash buttons, forms, and even dynamic databases. Throughout, you'll find clear-headed advice on using Cascading Style Sheets for flexible formatting-one of the best parts of Dreamweaver 8.

Tricks of the trade

This book is jammed with a veteran's knowledge of workarounds, shortcuts, and advice for dealing with the many different browsers in use today.

Design guidance

Dreamweaver can create any modern Web futures, from animations to pop-up windows. This book not only shows how: it also gives you advice on what looks good...and what will muck up your site.

Table of Content

Part One: Building a Web Page.
Dreamweaver 8 Guided Tour; Adding Text to Your Web Pages; Text Formatting; Links. Images.
Part Two: Building Better Web Page.
Cascading Style Sheets; Page Layout 101; Advanced Page Layout; Under the Hood:HTML.
Part Three: Bringing Your Pages to Life.
Forms; Dreamweaver Behaviors; Flash, Shockwave, and other Multimedia.
Part Four: Building a Web Site.
Introducing Site Management; Testing Your Site; Moving Your Site to the Internet.
Part Five: Dreamweaver Power.
Snippets and Libraries; Templates; Automating Dreamweaver; Customizing Dreamweaver.
Part Six: Dynamic Dreamweaver.
Getting Started with Dynamic Web Sites; Adding dynamic Data to Your Pages; Web pages that Manipulate Database Records; Advanced Dynamic Site Futures; XML and XSLT
Part Seven: Appendixes.
Getting Help; Dreamweaver 8, Menu by Menu