Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual

About the Outline

Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual is divided into five parts, each with several chapters:

• Part 1 explores Dreamweaver’s main screens and takes you through the basic steps of page-building. It explains how to add and format text, how to link from one page to another, how to spice up your designs with graphics, and introduces you to Cascading Style Sheets.

• Part 2 takes you deeper into Dreamweaver and provides in-depth CSS coverage. In addition, you’ll get step-by-step instructions for creating advanced page layouts, as well as advice on how to view and work with the underlying HTML of a page.

  Note

  Previous versions of this book contained a chapter on HTML frames—a method of displaying several web pages in a single browser window. This technique is going the way of the dodo bird. Since Dreamweaver CS6 is full of so many useful and exciting features and this book’s already bursting at its seams (any more pages, and it would have to come with a medical warning to those with bad backs), the frames chapter has been removed.

• Part 3 helps you add interactivity to your site. From forms that collect information from visitors to interactive page widgets like tabbed interfaces using the Spry Framework, this section guides you through adding animation, multimedia, and other interactive effects with ease.

• Part 4 covers the big picture: managing the pages and files on your site, testing links and pages, and moving your site onto a web server connected to the Internet. And since you’re not always working solo, this section covers features that let you work with a team of web developers.

• Part 5 shows you how to take full advantage of such timesaving features as Libraries, Templates, and History panel automation. It also covers Dreamweaver’s Extension Manager, a program that can add hundreds of free and commercial features to the program.