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Dreamweaver CS5.5 Mobile and Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery

By : DAVID KARLINS
Book Image

Dreamweaver CS5.5 Mobile and Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery

By: DAVID KARLINS

Overview of this book

<p>Dreamweaver is the most powerful and industry-leading web design software that utilizes cutting edge web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery for web and mobile development. These technologies have radically reconfigured the process of designing Web content and function in the widest possible range of browsing environments ranging from desktops to mobile devices.For experienced Dreamweaver designers and for designers new to Dreamweaver, this book explains in detail how to take advantage of the new features available in the latest releases of Dreamweaver that add support for HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery. In addition to this, the book also contains detailed step-by-step directions for building mobile apps in Dreamweaver CS5.5.This book starts off by teaching you to create web pages in Dreamweaver using the latest technology and approaches — HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. It demonstrates how to create or customize pages with HTML5 layouts and add multimedia to these pages with HTML5 elements. Then you will learn to add various CSS3 effects to web pages. The book also covers different techniques of adding interactivity to web pages. The later chapters show how to optimize web pages with Dreamweaver for display in various browsing environments. You will also learn to build jQuery-based mobile apps from scratch in the later chapters. By the time you're finished, you'll have learned several techniques to use the latest features of Dreamweaver for web and mobile development.</p>
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Index

Generating apps from Dreamweaver—an overview

Let's return to a question we have explored in other chapters: What is the difference between a mobile-friendly web page, and an app? There is an ongoing debate over the answer to this question, and the general trend is that apps are getting to be more like well-designed mobile-friendly websites, and vice versa.

Advantage: App vs web page

However, there are differences, beyond the underlying technology (apps are written in Objective-C programming language, not HTML5, JavaScript and CSS).

Among the advantages of packaging mobile web content as an app:

  • Apps run on mobile devices even when the device is offline
  • Related to the preceding point, apps load more quickly, particularly when there is a slow Internet connection
  • Once installed, apps are easier to access on mobile devices—they display on the device desktop and do not require going through a browser
  • Apps run in mobile devices without the encumbrance of a browser interface that...