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Introduction

  1. What Is Dreamweaver CS3?
    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
    File Name 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. Exploring the Interface
    Touring the Interface
    Setting a Default Workspace
    Saving Workspace Layouts
    Defining a Default Browser
    Using Shortcut Keys
  3. Managing Your Sites
    What Is a Local Root Folder?
    Exercise 1: Defining a Site
    Understanding Relative and Absolute URLs
    Exercise 2: Observing Links to Relative and Absolute URLs
    Exercise 3: Managing Files and Folders
    Exercise 4: Understanding Path Structure
    Understanding Site Root and Document Relative Links
    Exercise 5: Creating a Site Map
    Exercise 6: Creating a Site from Scratch
    Exercise 7: Deleting a Site Definition
  4. Learning the Basics
    Exercise 1: Creating and Saving a New Document
    Understanding 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 E-mail Links
    Exercise 4: Creating Named Anchors
    Exercise 5: Linking to Files
  6. Working with Cascading Style Sheets
    Understanding the CSS Specifications
    Understanding the Cascading Part of Style Sheets
    Exploring the Anatomy of a Style Sheet
    Exercise 1: Understanding CSS and Page Properties
    Using the Page Properties Dialog Box
    Understanding the Types of Style Sheets
    Exercise 2: Exporting and Linking External CSS Files
    Using the CSS Styles Panel
    Understanding CSS Selectors
    Understanding Type Selectors
    Exercise 3: Creating Type Selectors
    Understanding ID Selectors
    Exercise 4: Creating ID Selectors
    Understanding Class Selectors
    Exercise 5: Creating Class Selectors
    Exercise 6: Creating CSS Rollovers with Pseudo-Classes
  7. Working with Typography
    Leaving the <font> Tag Behind
    Using Valid XHTML Typographic Elements
    Exercise 1: Formatting Text with the Property Inspector
    What Measurement Should You 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. Working with 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. Using Layout Tools
    Using Tracing Images, AP Divs, and Tables for Layout
    Exercise 1: Applying a Tracing Image
    Exercise 2: Adding AP Divs
    What Makes an AP <div> Absolutely Positioned?
    What Is the Layout Mode?
    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
    Exercise 3: Accessing Adobe Device Central
  11. Adding Rollover Images
    Following 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. Using XHTML
    Exercise 1: Viewing the Markup
    Reviewing Your Options in Code View
    Exercise 2: Editing in Code View
    Using 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. Working with Forms
    Using 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: Adding Submit and Reset Buttons
  14. Applying Behaviors
    Exercise 1: Using the Open Browser Window Behavior
    Exercise 2: Using the Popup Message Behavior
    Exercise 3: Using the Validate Form Behavior
    Getting More Behaviors
  15. Editing Images
    Exercise 1: Setting External Image Editor Preferences
    Exercise 2: Editing Images with Built-in Tools
    Exercise 3: Roundtrip Editing to and from Photoshop or Fireworks
    Exercise 4: Copying and Pasting from Photoshop into Dreamweaver
  16. Using 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
    Knowing When to Use Library Items
    Exercise 9: Creating a Library Item
    Exercise 10: Modifying a Library Item
  17. Automating Repetitive Tasks
    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. Understanding Accessibility
    Understanding the W3C Accessibility Guidelines
    Exercise 1: Setting Accessibility Preferences . 426
    Exercise 2: Inserting Accessible Images
    Exercise 3: Inserting Accessible Tables
    Exercise 4: Inserting Accessible Form Objects
  19. Inserting Media Objects
    Downloading Plug-Ins
    Exercise 1: Linking to Sounds
    Exercise 2: Embedding Multimedia Files
    Exercise 3: Inserting Flash Content
    Exercise 4: Inserting Flash Video Content
  20. Using Spry Tools
    What Is Ajax?
    What Is Spry?
    Exercise 1: Adding an XML Data Source
    Exercise 2: Adding a Spry Table
    Exercise 3: Adding Spry Detail Regions
    Exercise 4: Using Spry Widgets
    Exercise 5: Adding Spry Form Fields
  21. Getting Your Site Online
    Hosting Your Pages with Tripod for Free
    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
    Using the Reports Dialog Box
  1. Troubleshooting FAQ and Technical Support
    Frequently Asked Questions
    Technical Support Information
  2. Dreamweaver CS3 Resources
    lynda.com Training Resources
    Flashforward Conference
    Online Resources
    Other Books
  3. Installing Extensions
    Using the Adobe Extension Manager
    Installing an Extension
    Disabling an Extension
    Uninstalling an Extension

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