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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

Recipe: Create an animated effect and transform


This recipe creates a class style box that can be reused repeatedly on a page that displays with a CSS3 effect, and a CSS3 transform when hovered over. As such, it is an easily adaptable recipe, you can use the information in this chapter to substitute different effects and transforms that we will use in the recipe.

In our particular scenario, we will apply rounded corners and slghtly enlarge the box when it is hovered over.

Putting the pieces in place

Here's what you need to have in place before diving into this recipe: You need to have defined a Dreamweaver site. Jump back to Chapter 1, and review the discussion and steps there for creating a Dreamweaver site.

With your site defined you are ready! Everything we need is right in Dreamweaver CS5. Let's first set up the files we need:

  1. Choose File | New to open the New Document dialog. Choose Blank Page in the Category column, HTML in the Page Type column, and <none> in the Layout column...