Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 for Windows and Macintosh

Even if you've never used Macromedia Dreamweaver before, this Visual QuickStart Guide will have you up and running with Macromedia's popular Web authoring program in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to Macromedia Dreamweaver, everybody's favorite Dreamweaver guru, author J. Tarin Towers, returns with her trademark crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce users, both veteran and new, to the brave, new world of Dreamweaver MX 2004. Using step-by-step, task-based instructions and loads of visual aids, Tarin explains how to use all of the program's visual layout tools, application development features, and code editing support to create stunning, accessible Web sites. Along the way, you'll find extensive coverage of all the program's new features: dynamic cross-browser validation, improved CSS support, built-in graphics editing, and more. Whether you're using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX as a WYSIWYG page-layout tool or a sophisticated text editor, you'll find this guide the key to it all.

Introduction.


1: Getting Started.


2: Setting Up a Local Site.


3: Basic Web Pages.


4: Editing Code.


5: Working with Images.


6: Working with Links.


7: Inserting & Playing Media.


8: Fonts and Characters.


9: Paragraphs and Block Formatting.


10: Creating HTML Styles.


11: Stylin¹ with Style Sheets.


12: Setting Up Tables.


13: Framing Pages.


14: Layers and Positioning.


15: Filling Out Forms.


16: Behavior Modification.


17: Automating Dreamweaver.


18: Customizing Dreamweaver.


19: Managing Your Web Sites.


Index.

• NEW - Updated to cover Dreamweaver MX 2004's newest features: rich CSS support, cross-browser validation, secure FTP, inline image editing, MS Office cut and paste, new code editing tools, expanded code hinting, parameterized Find and Replace.

• Task-based information is broken down into concise, one and two-page tasks.

• Step-by-Step with numbered, easy-to-follow instructions.

• Visual Reference-plenty of screen shots illustrate the step-by-step instructions.

• Quick Reference Tabs-tabs on each page identify the task.

• Shaded sidebars and tips.

• Industry-leading authors.

J. Tarin Towers, based in San Francisco, wrote Peachpit's previous editions of Dreamweaver Visual QuickStart Guide, and has contributed as a writer and technical editor to more than a dozen books about computers and the Internet. As an editorial consultant, she has worked with such companies as Netscape Communications, Microsoft, Informix Software, Infoseek, and IDG. She is a published poet, fiction writer, and essayist, and her web site resides at www.tarin.com.

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