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Dreamweaver CS5.5 Mobile and Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery

By : DAVID KARLINS
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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

Creating mobile pages from Dreamweaver CS5.5 starters


Dreamweaver CS5.5 comes with three jQuery Mobile-based starter pages: jQuery Mobile (CDN), jQuery Mobile (Local), and jQuery Mobile (PhoneGap).

The content of each of the three is identical, which is reasonable since there are a few basic jQuery Mobile elements you need for mobile pages and apps, and they are included in all three.

All three jQuery Mobile Sample Pages require, and include, links to a specific CSS file that supports and integrates with the jQuery Mobile objects. As you will see when we begin working with jQuery Mobile pages, there is a very complex and essential interdependency between jQuery Mobile and the particular CSS file that enables it.

The most substantial difference between the three Sample Page options is in how the linkage is defined between the jQuery Mobile page you generate, and the required CSS file.

The jQuery Mobile (CDN) Sample Page links to a version of the CSS file at the jQuery Mobile site. Therefore...