Introduction

1. Getting Started
   
   What Is Dreamweaver 8?
   HTML vs. XHTML
   Roundtrip XHTML
   Do You Need to Learn XHTML to Use Dreamweaver?
   What Does XHTML Do?
   What Does XHTML Look Like?
   File-Naming Conventions
   Filename Extensions
   What Is CSS?
   What Does CSS Look Like?
   What Is XML?
   What Is DHTML?
   What Is JavaScript?
   What Is a Web Application?
   Extending Dreamweaver
   
2. Interface
   
   Setting Up Your Workspace (Windows Users Only)
   A Tour of the Interface
   Preferences
   Preset Window Sizes
   Defining a Default Browser
   Shortcut Keys
   
3. Site Control
   
   What Is a Local Root Folder?
   Exercise 1: Defining a Site
   Understanding Relative and Absolute URLs
   Exercise 2: Linking to Relative and Absolute URLs
   Exercise 3: Managing Files and Folders
   Exercise 4: Understanding Path Structure
   Site Root and Document Relative Links
   Exercise 5: Creating a Site Map
   Exercise 6: Creating a Site from Scratch
   
4. Basics
   
   Exercise 1: Creating and Saving a New Document
   The Significance of Default Documents
   Exercise 2: Setting Page Titles
   Exercise 3: Inserting Images
   Exercise 4: Inserting Text
   Exercise 5: Aligning Text and Images
   Exercise 6: Creating Links with Images and Text
   Exercise 7: Inserting <meta> Tags
   
5. Linking
   
   Exercise 1: Linking with Point to File
   Exercise 2: Linking to New Source Files
   Exercise 3: Creating Email Links
   Exercise 4: Creating Named Anchors
   Exercise 5: Linking to Files
   
6. Cascading Style Sheets
   
   CSS Specifications
   The Cascading Part of Style Sheets
   Anatomy of a Style Sheet
   Exercise 1: Understanding CSS and Page Properties
   The Page Properties Dialog Box
   Types of Style Sheets
   Exercise 2: Exporting and Linking External CSS Files
   The CSS Styles Panel
   CSS Selectors
   Type Selectors
   Exercise 3: Creating Type Selectors
   ID Selectors
   Exercise 4: Creating ID Selectors
   Class Selectors
   Exercise 5: Creating Class Selectors
   Exercise 6: Creating CSS Rollovers with Pseudo-Classes
   
7. Typography
   
   Leaving the <font> Tag Behind
   Valid XHTML Typographic Elements
   Exercise 1: Formatting Text with the Property Inspector
   What Measurement Should I Use?
   Exercise 2: Managing White Space with Margins, Padding, and Line Height
   Exercise 3: Using Font Lists
   Exercise 4: Aligning Text
   Exercise 5: Using Ordered, Unordered, and Definition Lists
   What Is Flash Text?
   Exercise 6: Creating Flash Text
   
8. Tables
   
   What Is a Table?
   Exercise 1: Creating and Adding Content to a Table
   Exercise 2: Changing the Border of a Table with XHTML
   Exercise 3: Changing the Border of a Table with CSS
   Exercise 4: Adding Color to Tables
   Exercise 5: Aligning Table Content
   Exercise 6: Sorting a Table
   Exercise 7: Setting Table Widths
   Exercise 8: Creating Rounded-Corner Tables
   
9. Layout
   
   Tracing Images, Layers, and Tables for Layout.
   Exercise 1: Applying a Tracing Image
   Exercise 2: Adding Layers
   What Makes a DIV a Layer?
   What Is the Layout View?
   Exercise 3: Using Layout Tables and Layout Cells
   Exercise 4: Working with Layout Table Widths
   
10. Designing for Devices
    
    What's a Device?
    Exercise 1: Attaching a Printer-Friendly Style Sheet
    Exercise 2: Styling for Print
    Testing in Multiple Devices
    
11. Rollovers
    
    Rollover Rules
    Exercise 1: Creating a Simple Rollover
    Exercise 2: Creating Disjointed Rollovers
    Exercise 3: Creating Navigation Bars with Multiple Rollover States
    What Are Flash Buttons?
    Exercise 4: Creating Flash Buttons
    
12. XHTML
    
    Exercise 1: Viewing the Markup
    Options in Code View
    Exercise 2: Editing in Code View
    The Code Toolbar
    Exercise 3: Using Code Collapse
    Exercise 4: Using the Quick Tag Editor
    Exercise 5: Using the Tag Editor and Tag Chooser
    Exercise 6: Working with Snippets
    
13. Forms
    
    The Forms Group of the Insert Bar
    Exercise 1: Working with Text Fields and Text areas
    Exercise 2: Working with Check Boxes and Radio Buttons
    Exercise 3: Working with Lists and Menus
    Exercise 4: Submitting Form Results
    
14. Behaviors
    
    Exercise 1: Using the Open Browser Window Behavior
    Exercise 2: Using the Change Property Behavior
    Exercise 3: Using the Validate Form Behavior
    Getting More Behaviors
    
15. Fireworks Integration
    
    The Importance of Design Notes
    External Image Editor Preferences
    Exercise 1: Inserting Fireworks 8 Images
    Exercise 2: Editing Images with Built-in Fireworks 8 Tools
    Built-In Editing Tools
    Exercise 3: Editing a Fireworks 8 Image
    Exercise 4: Inserting Simple Rollovers from Fireworks 8
    Exercise 5: Updating Fireworks HTML in Dreamweaver
    About Fireworks 8 Export Settings
    Exercise 6: Manipulating Fireworks 8 Pop-Ups
    
16. Templates and Library Items
    
    Exercise 1: Seeing Templates in Action
    Exercise 2: Creating a New Template
    Exercise 3: Applying Templates to Existing Documents
    Exercise 4: Modifying a Template
    Exercise 5: Adding Repeating Regions
    Exercise 6: Working with Repeating Regions
    Exercise 7: Adding Optional Regions
    Exercise 8: Modifying Template Properties
    When to Use Library Items
    Exercise 9: Creating a Library Item
    Exercise 10: Modifying a Library Item
    
17. Automation
    
    What Is the History Panel?
    Exercise 1: Using the History Panel for Undo/Redo
    Exercise 2: Saving History Steps as Commands
    Exercise 3: Using Find and Replace
    
18. Accessibility
    
    W3C Accessibility Guidelines
    Exercise 1: Setting Accessibility Preferences
    IBM Home Page Reader
    Exercise 2: Inserting Accessible Images
    Exercise 3: Inserting Accessible Tables
    Exercise 4: Inserting Accessible Form Objects
    
19. Inserting Media Objects
    
    Plug-Ins Require Viewer Participation
    Exercise 1: Linking to Sounds
    Exercise 2: Embedding Multimedia Files
    Exercise 3: Inserting Flash Content
    Exercise 4: Inserting Flash Video Content
    
20. Getting Your Site Online
    
    Free Web Hosting with Tripod
    Exercise 1: Signing Up with Tripod
    Exercise 2: Setting FTP Connection Information
    What Is FTP?
    Exercise 3: Putting Files onto the Web Server
    Exercise 4: Running Site Reports
    The Reports Dialog Box