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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

Chapter 2. Customizing HTML5 Layout–Content and Look

In the previous chapter, we learned to generate HTML5 Page Layouts using Dreamweaver's HTML5 Pack. By the end of this chapter, we will have walked through the first phase of customizing both the content and the look of HTML5 pages generated with the HTML5 Layouts in Dreamweaver.

Customizing the content and look of pages generated from Dreamweaver HTML5 Layouts is best digested as a two-course meal. The first course is customizing the content, as well as the HTML tags that define the overall look of the page. We will do that in this chapter.

The second course, which we will see in the next chapter of this book, involves identifying and customizing the size, shape, location, background, type, and other attributes of HTML5 Layout elements.

In the course of all that, we will:

  • Further explore the HTML and CSS tabs of the Properties inspector
  • Explore the CSS Styles panel
  • Identify and edit basic HTML tags that define the appearance...