Dreamweaver CS3 Beyond the Basics

Covering diverse topics such as improving workflow and managing CSS styles, Dreamweaver CS3 Beyond the Basics is a hands-on course that teaches users how to move beyond standard, static websites. Instructor James Williamson explores how to increase productivity, interactivity, and accessibility with Dreamweaver. He also discusses how to extend the application's capabilities with XML and XSL. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

Table of contents

Introduction

• Welcome 1:17 2.7 MB
• Using the exercise files 0:46 0.7 MB

1. Dreamweaver Workflow Techniques

• Reviewing the Coding toolbar 8:42 16.5 MB
• Customizing the Coding toolbar 9:52 18.1 MB
• Taking advantage of Code Hinting 7:20 11.7 MB
• Using snippets and shortcuts 11:10 15.6 MB
• Using the Quick Tag Editor 5:18 7.0 MB
• Using Find and Replace 9:50 18.6 MB
• Regular expressions 5:39 11.3 MB
• Using Bridge with Dreamweaver CS3 8:28 15.2 MB
• Round-trip editing with Photoshop CS3 3:40 6.1 MB
• Leveraging image variables in Photoshop CS3 7:32 11.9 MB
• Integrating external variables into your workflow 6:16 9.3 MB

2. Working with Style Sheets

• Understanding the CSS Styles panel 7:59 12.9 MB
• Understanding the Cascade 5:50 9.2 MB
• Understanding Inheritance 5:08 8.3 MB
• Understanding Specificity 7:05 11.4 MB
• Managing CSS styles 5:04 8.9 MB
• Using Design-Time style sheets 6:20 12.5 MB

3. CSS Layout

• Using the new CSS template pages 5:59 11.6 MB
• Understanding DIV tag structure and layout 12:00 23.4 MB
• Understanding the CSS box model 10:00 12.9 MB
• Using absolute and relative positioning 8:35 15.8 MB
• Understanding floating elements 7:09 9.4 MB
• Clearing floats 7:19 11.5 MB
• Using floats to control page layout 3:45 5.4 MB
• Building structure and assigning IDs 10:19 19.7 MB
• Applying basic styling to structured content 11:14 17.6 MB
• Positioning container elements 11:04 21.6 MB
• Enhancing layouts with background graphics 11:48 22.9 MB
• Creating faux columns with background graphics 8:55 17.9 MB
• Creating rounded corners with background graphics 9:17 18.7 MB
• Building navigation with CSS 16:57 32.0 MB
• Using Dreamweaver's Browser Check feature 5:31 11.0 MB

4. Working with Forms

• Creating properly structured forms 6:30 13.0 MB
• Creating accessible forms 6:41 10.6 MB
• Using CSS to lay out form structure 7:40 13.9 MB
• Creating vertical columns for form elements 7:48 14.2 MB
• Adding user feedback 5:52 10.6 MB
• Applying advanced styling to forms 8:11 16.4 MB
• Client-side form validation 4:17 7.9 MB
• Validating forms with the Spry Validation tools 6:23 10.5 MB

5. Building AJAX Pages with the Spry Framework

• Understanding the Spry framework 3:43 6.3 MB
• Defining a data source for use in Spry 3:56 6.7 MB
• Creating a Spry table 8:08 16.3 MB
• Using the Spry widgets 8:11 14.2 MB
• Connecting various data sets 4:50 8.9 MB
• Understanding Spry widget structures 7:01 14.5 MB
• Applying custom styles to Spry widgets 6:24 13.1 MB
• Applying additional custom styles to Spry widgets 8:46 17.0 MB
• Controlling Spry widget behaviors with JavaScript 6:00 11.6 MB
• Controlling Spry widget animations with JavaScript 9:31 19.3 MB
• Creating effects with Spry behaviors 4:42 9.0 MB
• Hand-coding Spry 9:11 17.1 MB

6. Extending Templates

• Creating a base template 8:06 15.8 MB
• Creating editable attributes 6:26 13.0 MB
• Creating a new page from a template 7:42 14.9 MB
• Applying a template to an existing page 4:36 7.9 MB
• Creating nested templates 5:24 10.9 MB
• Using repeating regions 6:34 12.7 MB
• Creating editable and non-editable optional regions 6:00 12.1 MB
• Using template parameters 7:26 14.9 MB
• Using template expressions 9:59 20.4 MB
• Using conditional template expressions 8:54 17.9 MB

7. Working with XML and XSL

• Examining XML structure 2:44 3.2 MB
• Creating an XML document 9:09 14.6 MB
• Using the CDATA structure 5:07 9.6 MB
• Creating an XSLT file 4:33 6.4 MB
• Binding data from an XML to an XSLT document 5:06 7.7 MB
• Inserting repeating regions into an XSL document 5:16 10.1 MB
• Creating a client-side XSL transformation 2:52 5.2 MB
• Styling a remote RSS feed 7:29 15.6 MB
• Creating a server-side XSL transformation 5:31 11.6 MB
• Writing XSL expressions 6:53 14.6 MB

8. Building Dynamic Content

• Overview of building dynamic websites 1:35 1.8 MB
• Installing PHP, MySQL, and Apache on Mac 3:22 5.6 MB
• Installing PHP, MySQL, and Apache on Windows 3:54 5.6 MB
• Creating a MySQL database 3:16 7.1 MB
• Defining a testing server and database bindings 6:14 10.5 MB
• Creating a database recordset 4:35 8.5 MB
• Adding dynamic content to the page 5:14 9.1 MB
• Creating repeating regions of dynamic content 7:06 15.1 MB
• Filtering database records 7:39 15.1 MB
• Using the Live Preview 10:22 19.9 MB
• Passing URL parameters 4:23 8.7 MB
• Dynamically generating links 5:18 10.2 MB

9. Extending Dreamweaver

• Understanding behaviors 5:16 11.6 MB
• Installing additional behaviors 3:39 7.2 MB
• Planning to create a custom behavior 3:42 6.9 MB
• Examining existing behaviors 5:32 10.0 MB
• Building a behavior function 7:23 11.9 MB
• Creating an Action file 6:48 11.8 MB
• Enabling behavior functions 9:01 12.0 MB
• Initializing the user interface for a behavior 3:09 4.8 MB
• Loading behaviors in Dreamweaver 6:47 13.1 MB
• Testing and debugging behaviors 5:52 11.4 MB

10. Publishing and Collaborative Tools

• Running reports 7:41 10.9 MB
• Checking and validating links 3:40 7.4 MB
• Using cloaking 5:42 8.6 MB
• Using Check In/Check Out 4:03 5.8 MB
• Using Design Notes 6:06 9.8 MB

Conclusion

• Goodbye 0:20 0.4 MB