Dreamweaver in a Nutshell



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Dreamweaver in a Nutshell
By Bruce A. Epstein, Heather Williamson

Publisher	: O'Reilly
Pub Date	: November 2001
ISBN	: 0-596-00239-4
Pages	: 470

Dedication

Preface

The Big Picture

New Features in Dreamweaver 4

Dreamweaver UltraDev's Features

Layers and Tables and Frames, Oh My!

Heather's Acknowledgments

Bruce's Acknowledgments

Part I: The Content Objects

Chapter 1. Dreamweaver UI

Section 1.1. The Document Window and Views

Section 1.2. Objects Panel

Section 1.3. Property Inspector

Section 1.4. Reference Panel

Section 1.5. Launcher Bar and Panel Shortcuts

Section 1.6. Docking Panels

Chapter 2. Core Objects

Section 2.1. Head Elements

Section 2.2. Hyperlinks

Section 2.3. Images and Image Maps

Section 2.4. Text Formatting

Section 2.5. Page Properties

Section 2.6. Characters

Section 2.7. Hidden Objects

Chapter 3. Tables and Form Objects

Section 3.1. Standard View Versus Layout View

Section 3.2. Tables in Standard View

Section 3.3. Tables in Layout View

Section 3.4. Tabular Data

Section 3.5. Forms

Chapter 4. Frames and Layers

Section 4.1. Frames and Framesets

Section 4.2. Layers

Chapter 5. Using External Resources

Section 5.1. Macromedia Source Files

Section 5.2. Java Applets

Section 5.3. ActiveX Controls and Plugins

Section 5.4. Server-Side Includes

Part II: Managing Dreamweaver

Chapter 6. Managing a Web Site

Section 6.1. Site Management Overview

Section 6.2. Defining a Site

Section 6.3. The Site Window

Section 6.4. Checking Files In and Out

Section 6.5. Using Design Notes

Section 6.6. Preparing an Existing Site for Use

Section 6.7. Cleaning Up a Site

Section 6.8. Updating Your Site

Section 6.9. Site Reports

Section 6.10. Assets Panel

Chapter 7. Managing HTML Documents

Section 7.1. Cleaning Up Your HTML Code

Section 7.2. Checking Spelling

Section 7.3. History Panel

Section 7.4. Working with Browsers

Chapter 8. Templates

Section 8.1. Creating a Template

Section 8.2. Using Your Template

Section 8.3. Template Operation Summary

Chapter 9. The Library

Section 9.1. Creating a Library Item

Section 9.2. Modifying Library Items

Chapter 10. Cascading Style Sheets

Section 10.1. CSS Overview

Section 10.2. CSS Operations

Section 10.3. Stylesheets

Section 10.4. Styles

Section 10.5. Defining a Style

Section 10.6. CSS Styles Panel

Section 10.7. Editing CSS Styles and Stylesheets

Section 10.8. Further CSS Topics

Chapter 11. HTML Styles

Section 11.1. Creating HTML Styles

Section 11.2. Applying HTML Styles

Section 11.3. Editing HTML Styles

Part III: Behaviors and Interactive Elements

Chapter 12. Behaviors and JavaScript

Section 12.1. Browser JavaScript Support

Section 12.2. Using Behaviors

Section 12.3. The Behaviors Panel

Section 12.4. Built-in Behaviors (Actions)

Section 12.5. JavaScript

Section 12.6. JavaScript Debugger

Section 12.7. Browser Configuration Behaviors

Chapter 13. Image Behaviors and Fireworks

Section 13.1. Rollover Images

Section 13.2. Navigation Bars

Section 13.3. Fireworks

Chapter 14. Layer Behaviors

Section 14.1. Layer Size and Position

Section 14.2. Altering Layers Dynamically

Chapter 15. Text Behaviors

Section 15.1. Altering Text

Section 15.2. Creating Pop-up Messages

Chapter 16. Miscellaneous Behaviors

Section 16.1. Changing Object Properties

Section 16.2. Multimedia Controls

Section 16.3. Using Form Controls

Section 16.4. Using Go To URL

Section 16.5. Calling a Behavior from a Link

Chapter 17. Timelines

Section 17.1. Timelines Panel

Section 17.2. Altering Object Properties

Section 17.3. Adding Behaviors to Timelines

Section 17.4. Controlling Timelines

Section 17.5. Timeline Operation Summary

Part IV: Configuring and Extending Dreamweaver

Chapter 18. Dreamweaver Preferences

Section 18.1. General Preferences

Section 18.2. Code Colors Preferences

Section 18.3. Code Format Preferences

Section 18.4. Code Rewriting Preferences

Section 18.5. CSS Styles Preferences

Section 18.6. File Types / Editors Preferences

Section 18.7. Fonts / Encoding Preferences

Section 18.8. Highlighting Preferences

Section 18.9. Invisible Elements Preferences

Section 18.10. Layers Preferences

Section 18.11. Layout View Preferences

Section 18.12. Panels Preferences

Section 18.13. Preview in Browser Preferences

Section 18.14. Quick Tag Editor Preferences

Section 18.15. Site Preferences

Section 18.16. Status Bar Preferences

Chapter 19. Customizing the Interface

Section 19.1. Customizing Menus

Section 19.2. Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts

Section 19.3. Customizing the Objects Panel

Chapter 20. Customizing the Document Template and Dialog Boxes

Section 20.1. Customizing the Default Document

Section 20.2. Customizing Dreamweaver Dialog Boxes

Chapter 21. Displaying Third-Party Tags

Section 21.1. Third-Party Tag Files

Section 21.2. ASP Tags

Section 21.3. JSP Tags

Section 21.4. PHP Tags

Section 21.5. ColdFusion Tags

Chapter 22. Extending Dreamweaver

Section 22.1. Dreamweaver Extensions

Section 22.2. Writing Your Own Extensions

Chapter 23. CourseBuilder

Section 23.1. Installing CourseBuilder

Section 23.2. CourseBuilder Interactions

Section 23.3. Configuring Interactions

Part V: Appendixes

Appendix A. Keyboard Shortcuts

Section A.1. Window Menu and Panels

Section A.2. Help Menu

Section A.3. File and Edit Menu

Section A.4. Document View Options

Section A.5. Insert Menu

Section A.6. Editing and Formatting Text

Section A.7. Hyperlinks

Section A.8. Tables

Section A.9. Frames

Section A.10. Layers

Section A.11. Site Menu in Main Menu Bar

Section A.12. Site Window Menus

Section A.13. Commands Menu

Section A.14. Plugins Options

Section A.15. Templates and Libraries

Section A.16. Document Editing Shortcuts

Section A.17. Manipulating Timelines

Appendix B. HTML Character Entities

Section B.1. HTML Character Entities

Appendix C. Site Construction Checklist

Section C.1. Browser and Platform Support

Section C.2. Site Construction Tasks

Section C.3. Search Engines

Section C.4. Graphics and Performance

Colophon

Index