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Contents
Chapter 1: What’s New
- What’s New
Chapter 2: Workspace
- Dreamweaver workflow and workspace
- Working in the Document window
- Using toolbars, inspectors, and context menus
- Customizing the Dreamweaver CS5 workspace
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Extensions
  - Add and manage extensions in Dreamweaver
Chapter 3: Working with Dreamweaver sites
- About Dreamweaver sites
  - What is a Dreamweaver “site”?
  - Understanding local and remote folder structure
- Set up a local version of your site
- Connect to a remote server
- Set up a testing server
  - Set up a testing server
  - About the Web URL for the testing server
- Version Control and Advanced settings
  - Version Control category
  - Advanced Settings category
    - Local Info
    - Cloaking and other categories
- Manage Sites dialog box options
- Import and export Dreamweaver site settings
  - Export your site settings
  - Import site settings
- Edit an existing remote website
- Set site preferences for transferring files
- Managing Contribute sites
Chapter 4: Creating and Managing Files
- Creating and opening documents
- Managing files and folders
- Getting and putting files to and from your server
- Checking in and checking out files
- Synchronizing files
  - Synchronize the files on your local and remote sites
- Comparing files for differences
- Rolling back files (Contribute users)
  - Roll back files (Contribute users)
- Cloaking files and folders in your Dreamweaver site
- Storing file information in Design Notes
- Testing your Dreamweaver site
  - Site testing guidelines
  - Use reports to test your site
    - Run reports to test a site
    - Use and save a report
Chapter 5: Managing assets and libraries
- About assets and libraries
  - About assets
  - About library items
- Working with assets
- Creating and managing a list of favorite assets
- Working with library items
Chapter 6: Creating pages with CSS
- Understanding Cascading Style Sheets
  - About Cascading Style Sheets
  - About CSS rules
  - About cascading styles
  - About text formatting and CSS
  - About Shorthand CSS properties
- The CSS Styles panel
  - The CSS Styles panel in Current mode
  - The CSS Styles panel in All mode
  - CSS Styles panel buttons and views
  - Open the CSS Styles panel
- Enhancements to CSS3 support in the CSS styles panel (CS5.5)
  - Apply CSS3 properties using the pop-up panel
  - Specifying multiple value-sets
  - Locate properties in the Category view
  - Ensuring compliance with browsers
  - Preview changes in Live view
- Set CSS Styles preferences
- Create a new CSS rule
- Set CSS properties
  - Define CSS type properties
  - Define CSS style background properties
  - Define CSS style block properties
  - Define CSS style box properties
  - Define CSS style border properties
  - Define CSS style list properties
  - Define CSS style positioning properties
  - Define CSS style extension properties
- Edit a CSS rule
  - Edit a rule in the CSS Styles panel (Current mode)
  - Edit a rule in the CSS Styles panel (All mode)
  - Change the name of a CSS selector
- Add a property to a CSS rule
- Apply, remove, or rename CSS class styles
  - Apply a CSS class style
  - Remove a class style from a selection
  - Rename a class style
- Move/export CSS rules
  - Move/export CSS rules to a new style sheet
  - Move/export CSS rules to an existing style sheet
  - Rearrange or move CSS rules by dragging
  - Select multiple rules before moving them
- Convert inline CSS to a CSS rule
- Link to an external CSS style sheet
- Edit a CSS style sheet
- Format CSS code
  - Set CSS code formatting preferences
  - Format CSS code in a CSS style sheet manually
  - Format embedded CSS code manually
- Disable/Enable CSS
- Inspect CSS in Live view
- Check for cross-browser CSS rendering issues
  - Run a browser compatibility check
  - Select the element affected by a found issue
  - Jump to the next or previous found issue in the code
  - Select browsers for Dreamweaver to check against
  - Exclude an issue from the browser compatibility check
  - Edit the Ignored Issues list
  - Save a browser compatibility check report
  - View a browser compatibility check report in a browser
  - Open the Adobe CSS Advisor website
- Use Design-Time style sheets
- Use Dreamweaver sample style sheets
- Update CSS style sheets in a Contribute site
- Laying out pages with CSS
  - About CSS page layout
  - About CSS page layout structure
  - Create a page with a CSS layout
    - Create a page with a CSS layout
    - Add custom CSS layouts to the list of choices
- Working with div tags
  - Insert and edit div tags
  - CSS layout blocks
  - Working with AP elements
Chapter 7: Laying out pages with HTML
- Using visual aids for layout
- Presenting content with tables
- Using Frames
Chapter 8: Adding content to pages
- Use the Insert panel
  - Hide or show the Insert panel
  - Show the buttons in a particular category
  - Display the pop-up menu for a button
  - Insert an object
  - Bypass the object-insertion dialog box and insert an empty placeholder object
  - Modify preferences for the Insert panel
  - Add, delete, or manage items in the Favorites category of the Insert panel
  - Insert objects using buttons in the Favorites category
  - Display the Insert panel as a horizontal Insert bar
  - Return the horizontal Insert bar to a panel group
  - Show horizontal Insert bar categories as tabs
  - Show horizontal Insert bar categories as a menu
- Set page properties
  - Set CSS page font, background color, and background image properties
  - Set HTML page properties
- Set CSS link properties for an entire page
- Set CSS heading properties for an entire page
- Set title and encoding properties for a page
- Use a tracing image to design a page
- Understanding document encoding
- Select and view elements in the Document window
  - Select elements
  - View the HTML code associated with the selected text or object
  - Show or hide marker icons for invisible elements
  - Set invisible elements preferences
- Colors
  - Web-safe colors
  - Use the color picker
- Zoom in and out
  - Zoom in or out on a page
  - Edit a page after zooming
  - Pan a page after zooming
  - Fill the Document window with a selection
  - Fill the Document window with an entire page
  - Fill the Document window with the entire width of a page
- Set download time and size preferences
- Working with text
  - Add text to a document
  - Insert special characters
  - Add space between characters
    - Insert a non-breaking space
    - Set a preference to add non-breaking spaces
  - Add paragraph spacing
    - Add a paragraph return
    - Add a line break
  - Create bulleted and numbered lists
  - Search for and replace text
  - Define abbreviations and acronyms
  - Set copy and paste preferences
- Set text properties in the Property inspector
  - About formatting text (CSS versus HTML)
  - Edit CSS rules in the Property inspector
  - Set HTML formatting in the Property inspector
  - Rename a class from the HTML Property inspector
- Spell check a web page
- Import tabular data
- Import Microsoft Office documents (Windows only)
- Create a link to a Word or Excel document
- Use HTML Formatting
  - Format paragraphs
  - Change the color of text
    - Define default text colors for a page
    - Change the color of selected text
  - Align text
    - Align text on a page
    - Center page elements
  - Indent text
  - Apply font styles
- Use horizontal rules
  - Create a horizontal rule
  - Modify a horizontal rule
- Modify font combinations
  - Modify font combinations
  - Add a new combination to the font list
- Insert dates
- Adding and modifying images
  - About images
  - Insert an image
    - Set image properties
    - Edit image accessibility attributes in code
  - Align an image
  - Visually resize an image
  - Insert an image placeholder
  - Replace an image placeholder
  - Set image placeholder properties
  - Edit images in Dreamweaver
  - Create a rollover image
  - Use an external image editor
  - Applying behaviors to images
- Adding video
  - Embed videos in web pages (HTML5)
  - Inserting FLV files
    - Insert FLV files
    - Edit or delete an FLV component
- Inserting SWF files
  - About FLA, SWF, and FLV file types
  - Insert and preview SWF files
  - Insert FlashPaper documents
- Adding web widgets
- Adding Sound
  - Audio file formats
  - Link to an audio file
  - Embed a sound file
- Adding media objects
  - Insert and edit media objects
  - Start an external editor for media files
  - Specify the editor to start from Dreamweaver
  - Use Design Notes with media objects
  - Insert Shockwave movies
  - Add video (non-FLV)
  - Insert plug-in content
  - Troubleshooting plug-ins
  - Insert an ActiveX control
    - ActiveX properties
  - Insert a Java applet
    - Java applet properties
  - Using behaviors to control media
  - Use parameters to control media objects
- Automating tasks
  - Task automation
  - Use the History panel
  - Repeat steps
  - Apply steps in the History panel to objects
    - Apply steps to one other object
    - Apply steps to multiple objects
  - Copy and paste steps between documents
  - Create and use commands from history steps
  - Record and save commands
Chapter 9: Linking and navigation
- About linking and navigation
  - About links
  - Absolute, document-relative, and site root-relative paths
- Linking
- Jump menus
- Navigation bars
  - About navigation bars
- Image maps
- Troubleshooting links
  - Find broken, external, and orphaned links
  - Fix broken links
    - Fix links in the Link Checker panel
    - Fix links in the Property inspector
Chapter 10: Previewing pages
- Previewing pages
Chapter 11: Working with page code
- General information about coding in Dreamweaver
- Setting up your coding environment
- Setting coding preferences
- Writing and editing code
- Collapsing code
- Optimizing and debugging code
- Editing code in Design view
- Working with head content for pages
- Working with server-side includes
- Managing tag libraries
- Importing custom tags into Dreamweaver
Chapter 12: Adding JavaScript behaviors
- Using JavaScript behaviors (general instructions)
- Applying built-in JavaScript behaviors
Chapter 13: Working with other applications
- Cross-application integration
  - About Photoshop, Flash, and Fireworks integration
- Working with Fireworks and Dreamweaver
- Working with Photoshop and Dreamweaver
- Working with Flash and Dreamweaver
  - Edit a SWF file from Dreamweaver in Flash
- Working with Adobe Bridge and Dreamweaver
- Working with Device Central and Dreamweaver
- Working with ConnectNow and Dreamweaver
  - Working with ConnectNow
- AIR Extension for Dreamweaver
Chapter 14: Creating and managing templates
- About Dreamweaver templates
- Recognizing templates and template-based documents
- Creating a Dreamweaver template
- Creating editable regions in templates
- Creating repeating regions in templates
- Using optional regions in templates
- Defining editable tag attributes in templates
  - Specify editable tag attributes in a template
  - Make an editable tag attribute uneditable
- Creating a nested template
- Editing, updating, and deleting templates
- Exporting and importing template content
- Applying or removing a template from an existing document
  - Apply a template to an existing document
  - Detach a document from a template
- Editing content in a template-based document
- Template syntax
- Setting authoring preferences for templates
  - Customize code coloring preferences for a template
  - Set highlighting preferences for template regions
    - Change template highlight colors
    - View highlight colors in the Document window
Chapter 15: Building Spry pages visually
- About the Spry framework
- Working with Spry widgets (general instructions)
- Working with the Spry Accordion widget
- Working with the Spry Menu Bar widget
- Working with the Spry Collapsible Panel widget
- Working with the Spry Tabbed Panels widget
- Working with the Spry Tooltip widget
- Working with the Spry Validation Radio Group widget
- Working with the Spry Validation Text Field widget
- Working with the Spry Validation Text Area widget
- Working with the Spry Validation Select widget
- Working with the Spry Validation Checkbox widget
- Working with the Spry Validation Password widget
- Working with the Spry Validation Confirm widget
- Displaying data with Spry
- Adding Spry effects
Chapter 16: Designing for multiple screens and devices
- Creating media queries (CS5.5 and later)
- Change page orientation for mobile devices (CS5.5 and later)
- Creating web applications for mobile devices (CS5.5 and later)
- Packaging web applications
  - Packaging web applications as native mobile applications (CS5.5 and later)
- Preview pages using the Multiscreen Preview panel
Chapter 17: Using Adobe Online Services
- Using Dreamweaver with Adobe Online services
  - BrowserLab
  - Business Catalyst InContext Editing
Chapter 18: Displaying XML data with XSLT
- About XML and XSLT
- Performing XSL transformations on the server
- Performing XSL transformations on the client
- Missing character entities for XSLT
  - Specify a missing character entity
    - Specify a missing entity definition
    - Add entity definitions to the XSL files Dreamweaver creates by default
Chapter 19: Preparing to build dynamic sites
- Understanding web applications
- Set up your computer for application development
- Database connections for ColdFusion developers
- Database connections for ASP developers
- Database connections for PHP developers
- Troubleshooting database connections
- Removing connection scripts
  - Using the Remove Connection Scripts command
Chapter 20: Making pages dynamic
- Optimizing the workspace for visual development
- Designing dynamic pages
  - Dreamweaver and dynamic page design
- Dynamic content sources overview
- Dynamic content panels
- Defining sources of dynamic content
- Adding dynamic content to pages
- Changing dynamic content
- Displaying database records
- Viewing live data
  - Provide the page with live data in Live view
  - Troubleshooting live data in Live view
- Adding custom server behaviors
Chapter 21: Building applications visually
- Building master and detail pages
- Building search and results pages
- Building a record insert page
- Building an update record page
- Building a delete record page
- Building pages with advanced data manipulation objects (ColdFusion, ASP)
- Building a registration page
- Building a login page
- Building a page that only authorized users can access
- Securing a folder in your application (ColdFusion)
  - Secure a folder or site on the server (ColdFusion)
- Using ColdFusion components
Chapter 22: Building forms
- Using forms to collect information from users
- Creating web forms
- Building ColdFusion forms
Chapter 23: Accessibility
- Dreamweaver and accessibility

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