What s Inside, Part by Part

What's Inside, Part by Part

Part I, "Getting Up to Speed with Dreamweaver 8": Starting off gently, this part introduces you to Dreamweaver 8. Moving from Chapter 1, "Introducing Dreamweaver," to Chapter 5, "Defining Preferences," you'll learn about the many panels, inspectors, windows, and more that Dreamweaver exposes. You'll also learn about defining and managing a site, building a simple web page, and finally, defining Dreamweaver preferences for customizing how you work with Dreamweaver.

Part II, "Static Web Page Development": Generally considered the heart of the book, this part covers topics relating to static web page development. You'll learn about web page structuring using tables, advanced page formatting using style sheets, how to work with frames and framesets, how to design forms with form elements, how to incorporate behaviors into your web pages, and finally how to design pin-point accurate web pages using DIVs.

Part III, "Team Collaboration and Task Automation": While most consider Dreamweaver a great tool for building web pages, the truth is Dreamweaver exposes many tools for working with web pages within teams. In this part you'll learn about the many aspects included in Dreamweaver that facilitate the collaborative process such as file check in and check out, design notes, integration with Contribute, and more. You'll also learn about the many components built into Dreamweaver for enhancing the workflow process such as templates, library items, and more.

Part IV, "Incorporating Multimedia and Animation": Developers and designers who are building media-rich sites should concentrate on this part. The chapters in this part of the book covers DHTML, Flash and Fireworks integration, as well as video and audio.

Part V, "Dynamic Web Page Development": The chapters in this part begin to prepare you for working with dynamic web pages. As you'll see, the chapters in this part cover an introduction to web applications, server-side technologies, databases, and the language used to extract, insert, delete, and update data within databases: SQL.

Part VI, "Creating Database-Driven Pages": With an introduction to web applications and the many components that make up web applications under your belt, you're ready to move onto building dynamic web pages. As you'll see, the chapters exposed within this part walk you through retrieving data from, inserting data into, deleting data from, and updating data within databases. You'll also learn how to build search functionality, integrate shopping cart technologies, secure your web pages, and work with XML web services.

Part VII, "Appendixes and Bonus Content on the Website": This part consists of an Appendix covering Dreamweaver 8's XML/XSLT capabilities. Detailed appendixes on accessibility and extensibility are included on the book's website.