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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

Previewing with the Multiscreen Preview

Dreamweaver's Multiscreen Preview provides an instant (if not precise) preview of how an open web page will look in three different viewing environments.

In order to view an open page in the Multiscreen Preview, either click on the Multiscreen Preview button in the Document toolbar (if not visible, then select View | Toolbars | Document), or select Window | Multiscreen Preview from the Document window menu. When you do, the MULTISCREEN PREVIEW window opens, with three views, as shown in the following screenshot:

web designing, for multimedia web worldmobile devices, styling web designing, for multimedia web worldtablets, stylingPreviewing with the Multiscreen Preview

Multiscreen Preview is a form of a Live view. You cannot edit the content here you can only preview it.

You can, however—as we shall see—edit the style sheets associated with each view, and observe the effect in Multiscreen Preview.

The three preset viewport sizes in the Multiscreen Preview window provide a widely applicable set of screen sizes for previewing how an open page will look in a cell phone, a tablet, and on a desktop...