Adobe Using Dreamweaver 8 User Guide Dw8
User Manual: adobe Dreamweaver - 8 - User Guide Free User Guide for Adobe Dreamweaver Software, Manual
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- Contents
- Dreamweaver Basics
- Introduction
- Exploring the Workspace
- About the Dreamweaver workspace
- Working in the Document window
- Using toolbars, inspectors, and context menus
- Using panels and panel groups
- Using Dreamweaver accessibility features
- Optimizing the workspace for accessible page design
- Using visual guides in Dreamweaver
- Dreamweaver customizing basics
- Choosing the workspace layout (Windows only)
- Displaying tabbed documents (Macintosh)
- Saving custom workspace layouts
- Hiding and displaying the Start page
- Setting General preferences for Dreamweaver
- Setting Fonts preferences for Dreamweaver display
- Customizing keyboard shortcuts
- Adding extensions to Dreamweaver
- Setting Up a Dreamweaver Site
- Creating and Opening Documents
- Working with Dreamweaver Sites
- Managing Your Files
- About site management
- Accessing sites, a server, and local drives
- Viewing files and folders
- Comparing files for differences
- Rolling back files (Contribute users)
- Managing files and folders in the Files panel
- Working with a visual map of your site
- Importing and exporting sites
- Removing a Dreamweaver site from your list of sites
- Checking in and checking out files
- Getting and putting files to and from your server
- Synchronizing the files on your local and remote sites
- Identifying and deleting unused files
- Cloaking folders and files in your site
- Storing file information in Design Notes
- Testing your site
- Managing Site Assets and Libraries
- Managing Contribute Sites with Dreamweaver
- Managing Your Files
- Laying Out Pages
- Laying Out Pages with CSS
- About layers in Dreamweaver
- Inserting a layer
- Setting layer preferences and properties
- Managing layers
- Manipulating layers
- Converting layers to tables
- Animating layers
- Using the Timelines panel
- Playback options
- Moving a layer using a timeline animation
- Creating a timeline by dragging a path
- Modifying timelines
- Changing image and layer properties with timelines
- Using multiple timelines
- Copying and pasting animations
- Applying an animation sequence to a different object
- Renaming timelines
- Animation tips for timelines
- Inserting div tags for layout
- Working with div tags for layout
- Changing the highlight color for div tags
- Working with CSS layout visualization
- Using rulers, guides, and the grid to lay out pages
- Using a tracing image
- Presenting Content with Tables
- About tables
- Inserting a table and adding content
- Importing and exporting tabular data
- Selecting table elements
- Using Expanded Tables mode for easier table editing
- Formatting tables and cells
- Resizing tables, columns, and rows
- Adding and removing rows and columns
- Splitting and merging cells
- Copying, pasting, and deleting cells
- Nesting tables
- Sorting tables
- Laying Out Pages in Layout Mode
- Using Frames
- About frames and framesets
- Working with framesets in the Document window
- Creating frames and framesets
- Selecting frames and framesets
- Opening a document in a frame
- Saving frame and frameset files
- Viewing and setting frame properties and attributes
- Viewing and setting frameset properties
- Controlling frame content with links
- Handling browsers that can’t display frames
- Using JavaScript behaviors with frames
- Managing Templates
- About Dreamweaver templates
- Creating a Dreamweaver template
- Creating templates for a Contribute site
- Creating editable regions
- Creating repeating regions
- Using optional regions
- Defining editable tag attributes
- Creating a nested template
- Editing and updating templates
- Managing templates
- Exporting and importing template XML content
- Exporting a site without template markup
- Applying or removing a template from an existing document
- Editing content in a template-based document
- Laying Out Pages with CSS
- Adding Content to Pages
- Working with Pages
- About working with pages
- Saving web pages
- Specifying HTML instead of CSS
- Setting page properties
- Working with colors
- Selecting elements in the Document window
- Zooming in and out
- Using the History panel
- Automating tasks
- Using JavaScript behaviors to detect browsers and plug-ins
- Previewing and testing pages in browsers
- Setting download time and size preferences
- Inserting and Formatting Text
- About text formatting in Dreamweaver
- Inserting text
- Formatting paragraphs and document structure
- Formatting text
- Using Cascading Style Sheets to format text
- Using the CSS Styles panel
- Creating a new CSS rule
- Applying a class style
- Exporting styles to create a CSS style sheet
- Linking to or importing an external CSS style sheet
- Using the sample Dreamweaver style sheets
- Editing a CSS rule
- Editing a CSS style sheet
- Updating CSS style sheets in a Contribute site
- Using Design-Time style sheets
- Checking spelling
- Searching for and replacing text
- Inserting Images
- Linking and Navigation
- Understanding document locations and paths
- Jump menus
- Navigation bars
- About image maps
- Creating links
- Managing links
- Inserting jump menus
- Using navigation bars
- Using image maps
- Attaching JavaScript behaviors to links
- Checking for broken, external, and orphaned links
- Fixing broken links
- Opening linked documents in Dreamweaver
- Working with Other Applications
- About Fireworks and Flash integration
- Optimizing your work environment for Fireworks and Flash
- Working with Fireworks
- Inserting a Fireworks image
- Editing a Fireworks image or table from Dreamweaver
- Optimizing a Fireworks image from Dreamweaver
- Using Fireworks to modify Dreamweaver image placeholders
- Editing Fireworks pop-up menus in Dreamweaver
- Specifying launch-and-edit preferences for Fireworks source files
- Inserting Fireworks HTML code in a Dreamweaver document
- Pasting Fireworks HTML into Dreamweaver
- Updating Fireworks HTML placed in Dreamweaver
- Creating a web photo album
- Working with Flash
- Adding Audio, Video, and Interactive Elements
- About media files
- Inserting and editing media objects
- Starting an external editor for media files
- Using Design Notes with media objects
- Inserting and modifying a Flash button object
- Inserting a Flash text object
- Inserting Flash content
- Downloading and installing Flash elements
- Inserting Flash elements
- Editing Flash element attributes
- Inserting FlashPaper documents
- Inserting Flash Video content
- Inserting Shockwave movies
- Adding video (non-Flash)
- Adding sound to a page
- Inserting Netscape Navigator plug-in content
- Inserting an ActiveX control
- Inserting a Java applet
- Using behaviors to control media
- Using JavaScript Behaviors
- Using the Behaviors panel
- About events
- Applying a behavior
- Attaching a behavior to text
- Changing a behavior
- Updating a behavior
- Creating new actions
- Downloading and installing third-party behaviors
- Using the behavior actions that come with Dreamweaver
- Call JavaScript
- Change Property
- Check Browser
- Check Plugin
- Control Shockwave or Flash
- Drag Layer
- Go to URL
- Jump Menu
- Open Browser Window
- Play Sound
- Popup Message
- Preload Images
- Set Nav Bar Image
- Set Text of Frame
- Set Text of Layer
- Set Text of Status Bar
- Set Text of Text Field
- Show-Hide Layers
- Show Pop-Up Menu
- Swap Image
- Swap Image Restore
- Validate Form
- Working with Pages
- Working with Page Code
- Setting Up Your Coding Environment
- Coding in Dreamweaver
- About coding in Dreamweaver
- Writing and editing code
- Using code hints
- Working with code snippets
- Inserting code quickly with the Coding toolbar
- Inserting code quickly with the Insert bar
- Inserting tags with the Tag Chooser
- Editing tags with Tag editors
- Collapsing code
- Indenting code blocks
- Copying and pasting code
- Inserting HTML comments
- Jumping to a JavaScript or VBScript function
- Searching and replacing tags and attributes
- Making quick changes to a code selection
- Using language-reference material
- Printing your code
- Optimizing and Debugging Your Code
- Editing Code in Design View
- Preparing to Build Dynamic Sites
- Setting Up a Web Application
- Database Connections for ColdFusion Developers
- Database Connections for ASP.NET Developers
- Database Connections for ASP Developers
- Database Connections for JSP Developers
- Database Connections for PHP Developers
- Troubleshooting Database Connections
- Troubleshooting permissions problems
- Troubleshooting Microsoft error messages
- 80004005-Data source name not found and no default driver specified
- 80004005-Couldn’t use ‘(unknown)’; file already in use
- 80004005-Logon Failed()
- 80004005-Operation must use an updateable query
- 80040e07-Data type mismatch in criteria expression
- 80040e10-Too few parameters
- 80040e10-COUNT field incorrect
- 80040e14-Syntax error in INSERT INTO statement
- 80040e21-ODBC error on Insert or Update
- 800a0bcd-Either BOF or EOF is true
- Troubleshooting MySQL error messages
- Making Pages Dynamic
- Optimizing the Workspace for Visual Development
- The Workflow for Dynamic Page Design
- Obtaining Data for Your Page
- Defining Sources of Dynamic Content
- About dynamic content sources
- Defining a recordset
- Defining URL parameters
- Defining form parameters
- Defining session variables
- Defining application variables for ASP and ColdFusion
- Using a variable as a data source for a ColdFusion recordset
- Defining server variables
- Caching content sources
- Changing or deleting content sources
- Copying a recordset from one page to another page
- Adding Dynamic Content to Web Pages
- Displaying Database Records
- About displaying database records
- Using predefined data formats
- Creating recordset navigation links
- Showing and hiding regions based on recordset results
- Displaying multiple recordset results
- Creating a table with a Repeat Region server behavior
- Creating a record counter
- Displaying XML Data in Web Pages
- About using XML and XSL with web pages
- About server-side XSL transformations
- About client-side XSL transformations
- About XML data and repeating elements
- About previewing XML data
- Performing XSL transformations on the server
- Workflow for performing server-side XSL transformations
- Creating XSLT pages
- Converting HTML pages to XSLT pages
- Attaching XML data sources
- Displaying XML data in XSLT pages
- Displaying repeating XML elements
- Editing a Repeat Region XSLT object
- Inserting XSLT fragments in dynamic pages
- Deleting XSLT fragments from dynamic pages
- Editing XSL Transformation server behaviors
- Using parameters with XSL transformations
- Creating conditional XSLT regions
- Editing a Conditional Region XSLT object
- Inserting XSL comments
- Performing XSL transformations on the client
- Applying styles to XSLT fragments
- Troubleshooting XSL transformations
- Using Web Services
- Adding Custom Server Behaviors
- About custom server behaviors
- Installing third-party server behaviors
- Using the Server Behavior Builder
- Using parameters in server behaviors
- Positioning code blocks
- Creating a dialog box for a custom server behavior
- Editing and modifying server behaviors
- Creating Forms
- Developing Applications Rapidly
- Building ColdFusion Applications Rapidly
- About rapid application development (all servers)
- Building ColdFusion MX 7 forms
- Enabling the ColdFusion enhancements
- Creating ColdFusion forms
- Inserting ColdFusion form controls
- Inserting ColdFusion text fields
- Inserting ColdFusion hidden fields
- Inserting ColdFusion text areas
- Inserting ColdFusion buttons
- Inserting ColdFusion checkboxes
- Inserting ColdFusion radio buttons
- Inserting ColdFusion select boxes
- Inserting ColdFusion image fields
- Inserting ColdFusion file fields
- Inserting ColdFusion date fields
- Setting the properties of ColdFusion form controls visually
- Validating ColdFusion form data
- Building master/detail pages (ColdFusion)
- Building search/results pages (ColdFusion, ASP, JSP, PHP)
- Building a record insert page (all servers)
- Building pages to update a record (ColdFusion)
- Searching for the record to update (ColdFusion)
- Creating the links to open the update page (ColdFusion)
- Creating a URL parameter for update links (ColdFusion)
- Retrieving the record to update (ColdFusion)
- Completing the update page in one operation (ColdFusion)
- Completing the update page block by block (ColdFusion)
- Building pages to delete a record (ColdFusion)
- Using stored procedures to modify databases (ColdFusion)
- Building pages that restrict access to your site (ColdFusion, ASP, JSP, PHP)
- Securing a folder in your application (ColdFusion)
- Using ColdFusion components
- About ColdFusion components
- Visually creating a component in Dreamweaver
- Viewing ColdFusion components in Dreamweaver
- Editing ColdFusion components in Dreamweaver
- Building web pages that use ColdFusion components
- Defining a recordset in a ColdFusion component
- Using a CFC recordset as a source of dynamic content
- Building ASP.NET Applications Rapidly
- Building ASP.NET forms
- Adding ASP.NET form controls to a page
- Setting the properties of ASP.NET form controls
- Creating a dynamic ASP.NET menu
- Making an existing ASP.NET menu dynamic
- Displaying dynamic content in an ASP.NET TextBox control
- Dynamically preselecting ASP.NET CheckBox controls
- Dynamically preselecting an item in an ASP.NET RadioButtonList
- Creating ASP.NET DataGrid and DataList web controls
- Building master/detail pages (ASP.NET)
- Building a database search page (ASP.NET)
- Building a record insert page (ASP.NET)
- Building pages to update a record (ASP.NET)
- Building pages to delete a record (ASP.NET)
- Using stored procedures to modify databases (ASP.NET)
- Building pages that restrict access to your site (ASP.NET)
- Building ASP.NET forms
- Building ASP and JSP Applications Rapidly
- Building master/detail pages (ASP and JSP)
- Building search/results pages (ASP and JSP)
- Building a record insert page (ASP and JSP)
- Building pages to update a record (ASP and JSP)
- Building pages to delete a record (ASP and JSP)
- Building pages with advanced data manipulation objects (ASP and JSP)
- Building pages that restrict access to your site (ASP and JSP)
- Using JavaBeans (JSP)
- Building PHP Applications Rapidly
- Building ColdFusion Applications Rapidly
- Appendixes
- Index