DRER for Dummies (ISBN - 047061076X)

460 Pages·2021·10.93 MB·English

Janine Warner
Award-winning video host,
author, and Web designer

Learn to:
• Design and publish a Web site

• Develop beautiful, accessible sites with
CSS and XHTML

• Add interactivity with drop-down
menus and rollovers

• Use Dreamweaver to create and edit
templates

Dreamweaver

® CS5

Making Everything Easier!™

Open the book and find:

• How to manage, organize, test, and
publish Web sites

• Ways to work with text, graphics,
and links

• Design advice on what looks good
and what to avoid

• Steps for gaining control
over design and layout with
Dreamweaver’s CSS tools

• Techniques for including rollover
images, pop-up windows, and
more

• Tips for adding forms and
multimedia

• How to manage and update a site
with Business Catalyst

Janine Warner is a bestselling author whose books and videos on Web
design have won her an international following and earned her speaking
and consulting engagements around the world. She runs a Web design
and consulting firm and offers tutorials, books, and training videos at
www.DigitalFamily.com.

Internet/Web Site Design

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Get up to speed fast
and start creating
great Web sites!

Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced Web developer,
you’ve come to the right place. With this handy guide you’ll
go from designing your first page to putting your Web
site online in no time. Web design expert Janine Warner
walks you step-by-step through all the essential features
of Dreamweaver CS5 and helps you launch the Web site
you’ve always wanted.

• Learn the basics — gain a better understanding of the basic
concepts of Web design and the main features of Dreamweaver

• Start testing and publishing — test your site in different Web
browsers, fix broken links, manage linked files, and get your site
uploaded to the Web as soon as it’s ready

• Working with a team — use the Check In/Check Out feature to
make it easier to manage a site when collaborating with a group

• Save time with styles — dive into cascading style sheets to
format content

• Achieve more consistent designs — utilize sophisticated
template capabilities to improve your site’s look and make
global updates

• Take your site to the next level — spice up your pages by
integrating interactive images, video, and Flash

• Explore the Spry Framework — include interactive features like
drop-down menus and collapsible panels without writing code

• Extend Dreamweaver’s functionality — take advantage of new
online tools to set up a shopping cart, add traffic tracking, and more

Dreamweaver
® CS5

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Dreamweaver® CS5 For Dummies®

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About the Author

Janine Warner is an author, journalist, and partner in the Web design and
consulting fi rm Artesian Media, Inc. Her best-selling books and videos on
Web design have won her an international following and earned her speaking
and consulting engagements around the world.

Since 1995, she’s written and coauthored more than a dozen books about the
Internet, including every version of Dreamweaver For Dummies, Web Sites
Do-It-Yourself For Dummies, and Teach Yourself Visually Dreamweaver.

She’s also the host of a series of training videos on Dreamweaver and Web
design for Kelby Media and Total Training. Her fi rst videos on Dreamweaver
have won two multiple industry awards, and excerpts of her videos are fea-
tured on both Microsoft.com and Adobe.com.

Janine is a popular speaker at conferences and events throughout the
United States and abroad, and she’s taught online journalism courses at the
University of Southern California and the University of Miami.

An award-winning journalist, her articles and columns have appeared in a
variety of publications, including The Miami Herald, Shape Magazine, and the
Pulitzer Prize-winning Point Reyes Light newspaper. She also writes a regular
column about Dreamweaver for Layers magazine.

Janine has extensive Internet experience working on large and small Web
sites. From 1994 to 1998, she ran Visiontec Communications, a Web design
business in Northern California, where she worked for a diverse group of
clients including Levi Strauss & Co., AirTouch International, and many other
small- and medium-size businesses.

In 1998, she joined The Miami Herald as their Online Managing Editor. A year
later, she was promoted to Director of New Media. She left that position to
serve as Director of Latin American Operations for CNET Networks, an inter-
national technology media company.

Since 2001, Janine has run her own business as a writer, speaker, and con-
sultant. She lives and works with her husband in Los Angeles. To learn more,
visit www.JCWarner.com or www.DigitalFamily.com.

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Dedication

To all those who dare to imagine all the ways we can develop sites on the
Web: May all your dreams come true.

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