Foundation Web Design with Dreamweaver 8

By Craig Grannell

Dreamweaver is Macromedia’s best-selling web design/development environment, and the updated version of Dreamweaver will be available later this year. Dreamweaver has the capability to generate dynamic website code using server-side languages like ASP, PHP, and ASP.NET. We know that you don't always require a full database driven site though, so this book focuses on using the latest version of Dreamweaver to design and create usable, standards-compliant websites using XHTML and CSS. One of the highlights of this version is much closer, tighter CSS/XHTML. This book will show you how to make the most of that feature.

After a brief introduction to the latest version of Dreamweaver, and how CSS and XHTML fit into it, Craig looks at using the software for your web design projects in a hands-on, task based manner, covering these topics:

• Setting up a site in Dreamweaver
• Global web site essentials, such as dealing with doctypes, meta tags, comments, and page defaults, and attaching CSS and JavaScript files to your page
• Styling page content properly using CSS
• Working with images
• Creating web site navigation
• CSS for impressive page layouts that work
• Getting user feedback via forms

Following these exercises, the book then shows how to bring everything together with a final case study using Dreamweaver to build a complete web site.

Summary of Contents:

• Chapter 1: A New Kind of Web Design
• Chapter 2: Getting Started with Dreamweaver
• Chapter 3: Setting Up a Website
• Chapter 4: Web Page Essentials
• Chapter 5: Working with Text
• Chapter 6: Working with Images
• Chapter 7: Creating Navigation for Your Website
• Chapter 8: Web Page Layouts
• Chapter 9: Getting User Feedback
• Chapter 10: Putting It All into Practice