Foundation Web Design with Dreamweaver 8

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. But this book focuses on the latest version of Dreamweaver in order to create usable, standards-compliant websites using XHTML and CSS. One of the highlights in the upcoming version is much closer, tighter CSS/XHTML.

After a quick preamble about the new version of Dreamweaver, and how CSS and XHTML fit into it, author Craig Grannell looks at web design in Dreamweaver in a simplified, task-based manner?similar to his Web Designer?s reference (ISBN 1590594304). He covers these tasks:

- 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

Then he rounds off the book with a final case study, showing how to put it all together. (Note that this is NOT a revision of Foundation Dreamweaver MX 2004 [ISBN 1590593081], although it will heavily reuse some of the material.)