Dreamweaver CS4 All-in-One for Dummies (ISBN - 0470391804)

818 Pages·2021·18.08 MB·English

by Sue Jenkins and Richard Wagner

Dreamweaver® CS4
AL L -I N - O N E

FOR
DUMmIES

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by Sue Jenkins and Richard Wagner

Dreamweaver® CS4
AL L -I N - O N E

FOR
DUMmIES

‰

Dreamweaver® CS4 All-in-One For Dummies®

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About the Authors

Sue Jenkins is a Web and graphic designer, illustrator, photographer,
teacher, and writer, and the owner and creative director of Luckychair (www.
luckychair.com), a full-service design studio serving companies across
the U.S. since 1997. When not designing, this Adobe Certifi ed Expert/Adobe
Certifi ed Instructor teaches three-day courses in Dreamweaver, Illustrator,
and Photoshop at Noble Desktop in New York City. In addition to this
Dummies book, Sue is the author of Web Design: The L-Line, The Express Line
to Learning (Wiley), How To Do Everything Illustrator CS4 (McGraw-Hill), and
the upcoming Web Design All-in-One For Dummies (Wiley). Sue can also be
seen as the software instructor in three of ClassOnDemand’s (www.class
ondemand.com) Adobe Training DVDs, namely Dreamweaver for Designers
(winner of a 2007 Bronze Telly Award), Designer’s Guide to Photoshop,
and Designer’s Guide to Illustrator. Sue lives with her husband and son in
Pennsylvania.

Richard Wagner is an experienced Web designer and developer as well as
author of several Web-related books. These books include Building Facebook
Applications For Dummies, Professional iPhone and iPod touch Programming,
XSLT For Dummies, Creating Web Pages All-In-One For Dummies, XML All-
In-One For Dummies, Web Design Before & After Makeovers, and JavaScript
Unleashed (1st, 2nd ed.). Before moving into full-time authoring, Richard was
vice president of product development at NetObjects. He was also inventor
and chief architect of the award-winning NetObjects ScriptBuilder. A versatile
author with a wide range of interests, he is also author of The Expeditionary
Man and The Myth of Happiness.

Dedication

In loving memory of Buddy and Lizzy.

— Sue Jenkins

Authors’ Acknowledgments

A special thank-you goes to my agent, Matt Wagner, for yet another great
opportunity; to Linda Morris and Jeff Noble for their impeccable edit-
ing throughout all of the changes to the beta software; to all the people
working in Composition Services at Wiley to make this book look good; to
senior acquisitions editor, Bob Woerner, for his care and management of
this project; and to my coauthor, Rich Wagner, who generously stepped
in to revamp books VII, VIII, and IX on this project despite his overbooked
schedule. Thank you to my friends in New York City, and to Scott Carson
and my fellow co-workers and instructors at Noble Desktop: You make
every trip to Manhattan a special one. Thanks to my parents for bringing
me into the world and to my sisters and their partners and children for
always being just a phone call away. I’d also like to thank my husband,
Phil, and son, Kyle, for their love, support, and patience while I spent
most of our summer at the keyboard.

— Sue Jenkins

I would like to thank Linda Morris for her fl awless management of this
book from start to fi nish. Thanks also to Jeff Noble for his technical
insights to ensure the accuracy of the book.

— Richard Wagner

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Contents at a Glance

Introduction ................................................................ 1

Book I: Getting Started ................................................ 7

Chapter 1: Cruising Around the Dreamweaver CS4 Workspace ..................................9
Chapter 2: Planning and Designing Your Site ...............................................................31
Chapter 3: Creating and Managing Sites .......................................................................43

Book II: Mastering the Basics ..................................... 57

Chapter 1: Creating Documents .....................................................................................59
Chapter 2: Working with Text ........................................................................................73
Chapter 3: Inserting Graphics ........................................................................................93
Chapter 4: Making Links with Text and Images .........................................................113
Chapter 5: Adding Flash, Movies, Sound, and More ..................................................127
Chapter 6: Organizing Data with Tables .....................................................................151
Chapter 7: Building Fabulous Forms ...........................................................................169

Book III: Working Like the Pros ................................ 197

Chapter 1: Looking Good with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) ..................................199
Chapter 2: Building Sites with Templates ...................................................................243
Chapter 3: Using Library Items and Server-Side Includes ........................................275
Chapter 4: Creating Code Snippets and History Panel Commands .........................293
Chapter 5: Integrating Dreamweaver with Fireworks ...............................................311
Chapter 6: Dreamweaver Cross-Application Integration ..........................................329

Book IV: Energizing Your Site ................................... 343

Chapter 1: Working with Layers ..................................................................................345
Chapter 2: Jazzing Up Pages with JavaScript Behaviors and Spry Widgets ...........369
Chapter 3: Designing Pages with Frames ....................................................................419
Chapter 4: Making Your Pages XHTML-Compliant ....................................................447

Book V: Publishing Your Site .................................... 457

Chapter 1: Using Reports to Test Your Site before Publishing ................................459
Chapter 2: Keeping Your Code Clean ..........................................................................483
Chapter 3: Preparing to Publish Your Files Online....................................................499
Chapter 4: Publishing Your Web Pages Online ..........................................................515

Book VI: Working Collaboratively ............................. 527

Chapter 1: Working Effi ciently with a Team ...............................................................529
Chapter 2: Setting Up and Connecting to a Contribute Site .....................................543
Chapter 3: Managing a Contribute Site .......................................................................557

Book VII: Building Web Applications ........................ 567

Chapter 1: Preparing to Build Web Applications .......................................................569
Chapter 2: Confi guring MySQL Database Connections for PHP...............................583
Chapter 3: Confi guring ASP Database Connections ..................................................589
Chapter 4: Confi guring ASP.NET Database Connections ..........................................599
Chapter 5: Confi guring JSP Database Connections ...................................................607
Chapter 6: Confi guring ColdFusion Database Connections......................................615
Chapter 7: Dealing with Database Issues ....................................................................625

Book VIII: Making Pages Dynamic ............................ 635

Chapter 1: Preparing Dynamic Content Sources .......................................................637
Chapter 2: Using Dynamic Content in Your Web Pages ............................................649
Chapter 3: Previewing and Testing Your Dynamic Pages .........................................663
Chapter 4: Building Dynamic Forms ............................................................................671
Chapter 5: Advanced Dynamic Data Presentation ....................................................677

Book IX: Developing Applications Rapidly ................. 687

Chapter 1: Building Master and Detail Pages .............................................................689
Chapter 2: Creating Search and Results Pages ..........................................................705
Chapter 3: Building Record Insert Pages and Restricting Site Access ....................715
Chapter 4: Developing Record Update and Delete Pages .........................................727

Index ...................................................................... 747