This book covers, in a compressed way, the whole range of cutting edge and advanced features available in Dreamweaver CS6. Our emphasis is on the new features in HTML5 that structure content and make it more accessible, on CSS3 styles that add transformations (such as rotations) and effects (such as rounded corners) to elements, and on mobile design with HTML5 Media Queries and jQuery Mobile. Dreamweaver CS6 provides all the important tools for implementing all these features.
We'll get to that very shortly. But first, in this chapter, it will be important to review (and for those of you new to Dreamweaver, understand) some fundamental tools for maximizing productivity in Dreamweaver. Doing this serves two purposes: it provides a fast-and-furious overview of the basics of Dreamweaver CS6, and probably more importantly, it grounds us all in the protocols that protect the integrity of everything else that we are going to cover in this book.
In this chapter, we will:
Define a Dreamweaver site
Create HTML5 pages
Apply elements to text
Define links
Insert images
Create CSS files and link HTML pages to those stylesheets
Define and apply ID and class Div styles for page design