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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

Customizing mobile page content

In a basic sense, you customize jQuery Mobile page content the same way you customize any starter page-generated content. Remember back… way back… to Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of this book? Let's review the basic concept: starter pages come with template content, and you replace that with your own real content.

Isn't it simple enough? Kind of. As we have noted, there is a different order of gap between content and layout in jQuery Mobile pages. To put it another way, nothing is even close to how it appears with Live View turned off. Yet, you can't edit content in Live View. This emphasizes, again, the role of toggling back and forth between Live View off (to edit content) and on (to preview how that content will appear).

The HTML5 data-role property

Div tags associated with jQuery Mobile script can function as different kind of elements, including ones that appear to be, and act like pages in a mobile device. This is done by implementing...