What's Inside, Chapter by Chapter Chapter 1, "What's New in Dreamweaver MX," introduces you to what's new in Dreamweaver MX, some of which I've already listed, and some I haven't: JavaBean introspection, Code Snippets, enhanced templates, and better toolbars. Chapter 2, "The Dreamweaver MX Interface," covers the Dreamweaver interface: document views, toolbars, inspectors, panels, and status bars. By the end of the chapter, you should feel fairly comfortable with the Dreamweaver MX environment. Chapter 3, "Dreamweaver MX Site Management," covers site management, including defining a site, file check in and check out, and defining a local root folder. Chapter 4, "Dreamweaver MX Essentials," covers the essentials of HTML: page properties, HTML elements, JavaScript, typography, and graphics. Chapter 5, "Creating Tables," and Chapter 6, "HTML Forms," cover HTML tables and forms two parts of HTML that will make your design and development life much easier. Chapter 7, "Framesets," covers framesets, including when to use frames and how to use them properly. Chapter 8, "Dreamweaver Templates," covers Dreamweaver templates in depth. A good understanding of templates and the workflow surrounding them can make you more efficient. Chapter 9, "Assets and the Library," covers the library, another time-saving tool. You'll learn how to create and store assets for a site, how to use those assets, and how to update all library assets from a centralized location. Chapter 10, "Cascading Style Sheets," covers the different types of style sheets, how to apply them, and the different properties for text, backgrounds, borders, lists, positioning, and more. Chapter 11, "Layers in Dreamweaver," covers layers. Layers are a key component of DHTML and for those of you who have concerns about cross-platform compatibility, the chapter also covers conversion of layers to tables. Chapter 12, "DHTML," covers DHTML, including timelines, layers, and creating slideshows. Chapter 13, "Adding Video and Audio," provides an overview of media and includes how to link or embed media, as well as a discussion of ActiveX controls. Chapter 14, "Inserting Flash and Shockwave," covers Flash and Shockwave the differences between the two, what parameters they accept, and how to trigger different aspects with JavaScript. Chapter 15, "Integration with Complementary Programs," shows you how to do roundtrip editing of graphics with Fireworks MX, as well as roundtrip editing of Flash MX. The chapter also covers importing Photoshop/ImageReady-generated HTML. Chapter 16, "Introduction to Web Applications," begins a series of chapters on Web application development. The chapter covers basic concepts such as server-side scripting, databases, and SQL. Chapter 17, "Web Application Preparation," covers how to set up and configure IIS and Apache; PHP/MySQL, Tomcat, SQL Server, and ColdFusion; and Data Source Names (DSNs). Chapter 18, "Dreamweaver MX for Application Development," covers application development in a Dreamweaver MX environment: defining a site and connecting to a data source. Chapter 19, "Behaviors," includes material that will make it easier to understand actions and events. Chapter 20, "Extending Dreamweaver MX," covers extending Dreamweaver MX with objects, behaviors, and the menus.xml file. It also covers sharing those extensions with others. Chapter 21, "Working with CGI and Java Applets," covers CGI and Java applets, with sample guest book applications and a Java-based chat room. Chapter 22, "ASP and ASP.NET," provides a complete overview of the ASP object model and the .NET Framework. Chapter 23, "JSP," covers the Tag Chooser, JSP directives, actions, scriptlets, expressions, declarations, cookies, and JavaBeans. Chapter 24, "PHP and MySQL," provides a look at how PHP compares to CGI, how to use the Tag Chooser, and hand coding PHP. Chapter 25, "Looking Ahead," covers emerging technologies, including XHTML, XML, XLST, WNL, and .NET mobile Web controls. Chapter 26, "Database Primer," covers the basics (tables, rows, columns) and more advanced topics such as stored procedures, triggers, views, keys, and normalization. The chapter concludes with a Web store database example. Chapter 27, "SQL Primer," covers selecting, inserting, updating, and deleting data. It also breaks down SQL into the different clauses and covers joins and subqueries. Chapters 28 through 32 conclude the book with an in-depth tutorial on building a Web store application with ASP.NET. The chapters include real-life detailed code for catalogs, shopping carts, user registration, personalization, search functionality, and security. The appendixes cover other important information, such as Accessibility The standards, applying those standards, and the impact of accessibility on design and development efforts. Third-party shopping cart products How to choose a shopping cart technology, some technology options, and integrating the shopping cart with Dreamweaver MX. Server behavior builder Using server behaviors to write cookies, build custom code, and more. Integration with Flash MX Create dynamic, media-rich sites by integrating Flash with middleware and database packages. Dreamweaver MX and language resources Learn more about multimedia development, application integration, PHP, JSP, ASP, ColdFusion, and XML. ColdFusion MX tags Learn how to use the Tag Chooser to implement ColdFusion tags, hand code ColdFusion, and debug your ColdFusion code. It is our hope that Dreamweaver MX Unleashed can be your one-stop resource for all things related to Dreamweaver MX. |
