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

By : DAVID KARLINS
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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

The App toolkits

Our exploration of using the respective toolkits for generating iOS and Android apps is constrained by two things. First, we are not high-level professional coders and second, these toolkits operate behind the scenes in Dreamweaver CS5.5, and for most of us, that is just fine.

However, it is worth taking a moment to identify what will be going on behind the scenes when we use Dreamweaver CS5.5 to generate Android and (on Macs) iOS apps.

The Xcode suite of tools was developed and is distributed by Apple. The entire set of tools can be used to write software for Mac OS X and iOS. The subset of these tools applicable here creates iOS apps—we are not going to be using Dreamweaver to write applications for desktops and laptops. Xcode 4 is the current version of Xcode. Apple sells it and it can be downloaded directly from Apple. However, Dreamweaver CS5.5 is configured, so that Mac users can install the Xcode4 seamlessly.

Eclipse is the toolset for creating apps for Google...