Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 Digital Classroom -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Credits -- Contents -- Starting up -- About Dreamweaver Digital Classroom -- Prerequisites -- Starting Adobe Dreamweaver -- Access lesson files & videos any time -- Checking for updated lesson files -- Resetting the Dreamweaver workspace -- Loading lesson files -- Working with the video tutorials -- Hosting your websites -- Additional resources -- Lesson 1: Dreamweaver CS6 Jumpstart -- Starting up -- What is Dreamweaver? -- Design and layout tools -- Site management and File Transfer Protocol -- Coding environment and text editor -- Mobile design and development features -- Who uses Dreamweaver? -- Dreamweaver's workspace features -- Live View and Live Code -- CSS Inspection and the Enable/Disable Feature -- Related files -- Code Navigator -- Photoshop smart objects -- Support for Content Management Systems -- HTML5, CSS3, and PHP code hinting -- HTML and CSS Starter Pages -- Subversion -- Business Catalyst integration -- How websites work -- A simple flow chart -- Domain names and IP addresses -- Servers and web hosts -- The role of web browsers -- An introduction to HTML -- Tag structure and attributes -- The structure of an HTML document -- Placing images in HTML -- Colors in HTML -- Case sensitivity and whitespace rules -- Element hierarchy -- XHTML 1.0 Transitional -- What's the difference? -- Explorations in code -- A look at the Welcome Screen -- Creating, opening, and saving documents -- Creating new documents -- Self study -- Review -- Lesson 2: Setting Up a New Site -- Starting up -- Creating a new site -- Advanced site-creation options -- Adding pages -- Saving a page to your site -- Defining page properties -- Work views -- A deeper look into the Files panel -- Viewing local files -- Selecting and editing files -- Self study -- Review.

Lesson 3: Adding Text and Images -- Starting up -- Typography and images on the Web -- Adding text -- An introduction to styles -- Previewing pages in a web browser -- Creating hyperlinks -- Linking to an e-mail address -- Creating lists -- Using the Text Insert panel -- Inserting images -- Image resolution -- Image formats -- Creating a simple gallery page -- Linking images -- Using image placeholders -- Editing images -- Adjusting brightness and contrast -- Optimizing images -- Updating images -- Self study -- Review -- Lesson 4: Styling Your Pages with CSS -- Starting up -- What are Cascading Style Sheets? -- CSS replaces inefficient HTML styling -- The benefits of CSS styling -- How do you create CSS rules in Dreamweaver? -- Understanding Style Sheets -- Understanding why they're called Cascading -- Creating and modifying styles -- Creating a class style with the Property Inspector -- Creating and modifying styles in the CSS Styles panel -- Advanced text formatting with CSS -- Fine-tuning page appearance with contextual and pseudo-class selectors -- Div tags and CSS IDs -- Internal versus external style sheets -- Attaching an external style sheet to your page -- Modifying attached style sheets -- Creating a new .css file (external style sheet) -- Self study -- Review -- Lesson 5: Creating Page Layouts with CSS -- Starting up -- The CSS Box model -- The basics of CSS margins, padding, and borders -- Reviewing the element -- Reviewing the ID selector -- Creating a centered container for your page -- Making layouts cross-browser compatible -- Absolute versus relative positioning -- Positioning content with AP Divs -- Adding an introduction section to your page -- Adding images to your layout -- Photoshop integration -- Adding Main and Sidebar content areas -- Adding additional content and styles -- Setting margins and borders.

Overriding default margins in CSS -- Adding borders to elements -- Future proofing your layout -- The pros and cons of Absolutely Positioned CSS layouts -- Self study -- Review -- Lesson 6: Advanced Page Layout -- Starting up -- Layout with AP divs versus layout with floats -- Creating a floated image -- Creating columns with HTML and CSS -- Creating the HTML Structure with div elements -- Setting the width and floating the columns -- Using the clear property -- Creating a list-based navigation bar -- Changing column layout and size -- Creating the appearance of equal height columns -- Browser compatibility -- Adding code for IE 6 -- Applying finishing touches -- Creating more sophisticated layouts -- Dreamweaver Fluid Grid Layout -- Self study -- Review -- Lesson 7: CSS3 Transitions and Web Fonts -- Starting up -- Understanding the role of CSS3 -- Adding a CSS Transition -- Modifying a CSS Transition -- Adding CSS Transitions to a navigation menu -- The basics of web fonts -- Adding web fonts to your site -- Styling your heading with a web font -- Self study -- Review -- Lesson 8: Working with Tables -- Starting up -- Using tables in web design -- Importing table data -- Selecting table elements -- Modifying table size -- Modifying table structure -- Creating a table -- Formatting and styling tables in HTML -- Formatting and styling tables with CSS -- Advanced CSS styling of tables -- Controlling cell alignment, padding, and borders with CSS -- Creating alternate row styling with CSS -- Reusing CSS for other tables -- Data sorting tables -- Self study -- Review -- Lesson 9: Fine-Tuning Your Workflow -- Starting up -- Customizing panels and panel groups -- Using the Favorites tab on the Insert bar -- Resizing the document window -- Changing the Zoom level -- Using guides -- Using grids -- The tag selector -- Tiling documents -- Self study -- Review.

Lesson 10: Adding Flash, Video, and Sound Content -- Starting up -- Making web content interesting -- Inserting Flash movies -- Adding video -- Flash Video -- QuickTime video and Windows Media -- Inserting sound -- Self study -- Review -- Lesson 11: Maximizing Site Design -- Starting up -- Creating modular page elements -- Introducing snippets -- The Snippets panel -- Creating new snippets -- Introducing library items -- Modifying and updating library items -- Introducing templates -- Creating a new template -- Working with editable regions -- Creating new pages from templates -- Modifying templates -- Repeating regions -- Putting repeating regions into action -- Detach from Template command -- Self study -- Review -- Lesson 12: Working with Code-editing Features -- Starting up -- Working with code -- Accessing code with the Quick Tag editor -- Inserting tags with the Tag Chooser -- Inserting and editing comments -- Using HTML5 Code-hinting -- Working in the Code view -- Modifying the Code view workspace -- The Coding toolbar -- Collapsing and expanding tags and code blocks -- Validating your code -- Highlighting and correcting invalid code -- Running a Report -- Formatting code -- Indenting -- Self study -- Review -- Lesson 13: Building Web Forms -- Starting up -- The basics of HTML forms -- How forms work -- Building a contact form -- Inserting the tag -- Setting form properties -- Adding form elements -- Adding text fields -- Adding checkboxes -- Adding radio buttons -- Adding radio groups -- Adding lists and menus -- Adding a text area -- Adding a File Upload field -- Creating Submit and Reset buttons -- Styling forms with CSS -- Attaching external styles -- Setting a background color -- Styling form elements -- Form processing and validation -- Adding form validation -- A look at the Behaviors panel -- Setting an event or trigger.

Validating form fields -- Changing a form field's behavior order -- Verifying field contents -- Self study -- Review -- Lesson 14: Adding Interactivity with the Spry Framework -- Starting up -- Introducing the Spry Widgets -- The Spry framework for AJAX -- What is AJAX? -- A look at the project -- The Spry Menu bar -- Customizing Spry Widgets with CSS -- The Spry Tabbed panel -- The Spry Accordion panel -- The Spry Collapsible panel -- Working with Spry Data Widgets -- What is XML? -- Creating a Spry XML data set -- Adding a Spry Data Widget: The Spry Repeat List -- Styling and fine-tuning data widgets -- Self study -- Review -- Lesson 15: Mobile Design and Layout -- Starting up -- The rise of the mobile web -- Dreamweaver tools for mobile layout -- Mobile website features in Dreamweaver -- Viewing your web page with the Multiscreen feature -- Media Queries defined -- Creating a site-wide media query file -- Organizing your style sheets -- Creating a layout optimized for mobile -- Creating styles for navigation and single-column layout -- The basics of Fluid Grid Layout -- Creating your mobile layout -- Creating a tablet layout -- Creating a three-column fluid layout for the desktop -- Styling elements in your fluid grid layout -- Self study -- Review -- Lesson 16: Managing your Website: Reports, Optimization, and Maintenance -- Starting up -- Working with the Files panel -- Creating a remote connection -- Viewing files on a remote web server -- Transferring files to and from a remote server with Get and Put -- Using Check In/Check Out and Design Notes -- Check In and Check Out -- Checking files in and out -- Using Design Notes -- Sharing Design Notes -- Displaying Design Notes in the Files panel -- Testing site integrity -- Using Check Links -- Checking links sitewide -- Generating site reports -- Understanding report results.

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