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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

Formatting CSS files for Media Queries


With a Media Query defined for a web page, we can now interactively create and adjust the styles for each targeted browsing environment. In order to do this we will re-open the Multiscreen Preview for the page.

Wait! You might exclaim, how can we edit the page in Multiscreen Preview, when that window functions like the Live view in the Document window—locking out any content editing. A thoughtful concern, but here we will be only editing the CSS styles, not the page content. Moreover, we can do in Multiscreen Preview.

In order to edit styles in Multiscreen Preview, view the CSS Styles panel (Window | CSS Styles). The three attached styles, along with parenthetical notes helping us remember which style is which, appear in the top half of the CSS Styles panel. You can expand any of those three styles by clicking on the triangle next to the style name in the top half of the CSS Styles panel. In the following screenshot, the query_phone.css style is expanded...