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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

Saving customized HTML5 layouts

Up to this point, as we have generated pages using Dreamweaver's HTML5 layouts, we have attached the CSS style files supplied with those pages by Dreamweaver.

Moreover, as we have edited the CSS on those pages (by making the kinds of changes just discussed to the <body> tag and so on), we have simply saved those changes to the default CSS file supplied by Dreamweaver.

In real life, however:

  • We would want to keep our own, customized CSS file distinct from the generic one generated each time by Dreamweaver, and
  • We would want to attach our customized CSS file to the generated HTML5 layouts instead of the one supplied by Dreamweaver.

Let's walk through how this works:

First, as soon as you generate your first HTML5 layout, you will note the Dreamweaver-supplied CSS file is open in an associated file, displayed in the associated files bar in the Dreamweaver document window. You can open that file in its own window by right-clicking (Windows) or Control...