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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 CSS styles

You can edit the content of jQuery Mobile pages by editing the HTML as we have just seen. However, you can customize the look of jQuery Mobile pages by changing the CSS styles associated with different jQuery Mobile objects.

This is complicated. The complications arise from the fact that there are a gazillion (roughly speaking) CSS styles that make up the jQuery Mobile style sheet.

The developers of jQuery Mobile have addressed this challenge by providing a set of themes. Themes are a formatting tool used in different kinds of auto-generated content environments. Blog generators such as WordPress or Drupal (these programs can be stretched beyond designing blogs, but that is their essential role) provide developers with a variety of themes that apply sets of colors, fonts, and background images.

As such, themes are, in general, something of an anathema to creative web page designers who want uniquely formatted pages, not paint-by-numbers pages that are...