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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

Customizing HTML5 elements

As a final referential segue before diving into the HTML5 elements used in the Dreamweaver layouts, it will be helpful to identify particular design and formatting issues specific to the <header>, <section>, <footer>, <aside>, <nav>, and <article> elements.

For the <header> and <footer>, it will often be the case that you want to define a customized background, along with tweaked padding.

The formatting for < section> and <article> elements is often inherited from parent elements, that is, the global HTML tags such as the <body> tag, or enclosing tags such as a container tag, discussed earlier. However, within that, <section> and <article> elements might well have unique margin or padding, and specific formatting applied to text only within those elements.

The <nav> element, containing links, might well have a specific link formatting (colors, underlining, and so on). The <aside...