Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Certified Developer Study Guide : What Every Dreamweaver Developer Needs to Know to Pass the Certified Dreamweaver 8 Developer Exam,9780321336286

Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Certified Developer Study Guide : What Every Dreamweaver Developer Needs to Know to Pass the Certified Dreamweaver 8 Developer Exam

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780321336286
ISBN10: 0321336283
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-02-08
Publisher(s): Macromedia Press
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Summary

This is the definitive exam study guide that will help you review what you need to know to pass the Certified Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Developer Exam. Designed specifically to simplify exam preparation for intermediate to advanced Dreamweaver developers, each subject is presented in clear and direct language, with useful and well-explained code examples. The guide includes 24 concise, focused chapters with extensive notes, tips, and cautions. Each chapter concludes with sample questions and answers designed to facilitate review. Intermediate Dreamweaver developers will get the grounding they need to complete the Macromedia certification process, and veteran users will find coverage of all the new Dreamweaver 8 features you need to keep your certification up to date: visual authoring with XML data, improved CSS support for media types (unified panel, rendering improvements, layout visualization, and style rendering toolbar), integrated accessibility, improved WebDAV, and more. Coverage of the following Dreamweaver topics: Design basics Library items and extensions Team collaboration Layers and tables in page layout

Author Biography

Sue Hove is Macromedia Inc.'s Director of Instructor Readiness for Customer Training. She has been working on shaping the curriculum for Macromedia during the last 9 years and has worked on the last four iterations of the Macromedia Certified Developer program.

Donald Booth is a Quality Assurance Engineer for Dreamweaver. Since 2000, he has worked for Macromedia as a Technical Support Lead and as a member of the Dreamweaver Product Team. He is the co-author of Inside Dreamweaver MX and has also participated in the development of the Dreamweaver Certification Exam since 2002 .

Table of Contents

Introduction xv
PART 1 Getting Started 1(36)
CHAPTER 1 Web Basics
3(16)
The Internet
3(1)
DNS
4(1)
The World Wide Web
4(4)
Web Browsers
5(1)
Web Servers
6(1)
URLs
7(1)
Client-Side Web Technologies
8(8)
HTML
9(1)
XHTML and XML
10(1)
Global Structure of HTML Documents
11(2)
Structure and Display Specifications
13(1)
Cascading Style Sheets
14(1)
JavaScript
14(2)
DHTML
16(1)
Summary
16(1)
Sample Questions
17(2)
CHAPTER 2 Using the Macromedia Dreamweaver Interface
19(10)
Dreamweaver Interface Elements
19(5)
Dreamweaver Menu
20(1)
Insert Bar
20(1)
Document Window
21(1)
Document Toolbar
21(1)
Design View
22(1)
The Status Bar
22(1)
Tag Selector
23(1)
Property Inspector
24(1)
Panel Sets
24(2)
Summary
26(1)
Sample Questions
26(3)
CHAPTER 3 Creating a Local Site
29(8)
Creating a Dreamweaver Site
30(3)
Folder Organization
30(1)
Managing Sites
30(1)
Creating a New Site
31(2)
Local Site Benefits
33(1)
Using the Files Panel
33(1)
Preferences
33(1)
Summary
34(1)
Sample Questions
35(2)
PART 2 Building Web Sites 37(76)
CHAPTER 4 Adding Basic Content
39(12)
Text
39(1)
Pasting in Content
40(1)
Paragraphs
41(1)
Headings
41(1)
Lists
41(1)
Line Breaks
42(1)
Formatting with the Property Inspector
43(2)
Format
43(1)
Style (Bold and Italic)
43(1)
Alignment
43(1)
Link and Target
44(1)
Lists (Ordered and Unordered)
44(1)
Text Indent and Outdent
44(1)
Horizontal Rules
45(1)
Special Characters
45(1)
Head Content
46(3)
Meta Properties
46(1)
Keywords and Descriptions
47(1)
Refresh
47(1)
Base URL
48(1)
Link Information
49(1)
Summary
49(1)
Sample Questions
50(1)
CHAPTER 5 Using Cascading Style Sheets
51(12)
CSS Syntax
52(5)
Tags
54(1)
Classes
55(2)
Advanced Selectors
57(1)
Linking Style Sheets
57(1)
Embedding Style Sheets
58(1)
Inline Styles
59(1)
Cascading Order
59(1)
Inheritance
60(1)
Adding, Modifying and Deleting styles
60(1)
Box Model
60(1)
Summary
61(1)
Sample Questions
62(1)
CHAPTER 6 Using Images
63(10)
Image Types and Uses
64(2)
GIFs
64(1)
JPEGs
65(1)
PNGs
66(1)
Inserting Images
66(3)
Image Properties
67(2)
Image Maps
69(1)
Tracing Image
70(1)
Summary
70(1)
Sample Questions
71(2)
CHAPTER 7 Linking Pages and Sites
73(8)
Complete and Partial URLs
74(2)
Defining Relative Paths
75(1)
Choosing the Pathing Method in Macromedia Dreamweaver
75(1)
Using Named Anchors
76(2)
Targeting Links
77(1)
Creating Links Using Dreamweaver
78(1)
Creating Full URL Links
78(1)
Creating Partial URL Links
78(1)
Creating Mailto: Links
79(1)
Case Sensitive Links
79(1)
Updating Links
79(1)
Summary
79(1)
Sample Questions
80(1)
CHAPTER 8 Using Layers for Page Layout
81(6)
Creating CSS Layers
82(3)
Layer Attributes
82(3)
Visualizing Layout
85(1)
DIV Visualization
85(1)
Box Model Layout
85(1)
Summary
85(1)
Sample Questions
86(1)
CHAPTER 9 Using Tables for Page Layout
87(16)
Inserting Tables in Standard Mode
88(1)
Table Code
89(1)
Selecting Table Elements
90(2)
Selecting a Cell
90(1)
Selecting Several Cells
91(1)
Selecting Columns or Rows
91(1)
Selecting an Entire Table
91(1)
Modifying Table Elements
92(2)
Importing Tabular Data
94(1)
Sort Table
95(2)
Format Table
97(1)
Layout Mode
98(3)
Layout Tables
98(1)
Adding Cells and Content in Layout Mode
99(1)
Manipulating Cells in Layout Mode
99(1)
Manipulating Layout Tables
100(1)
Autostretch
100(1)
Converting Layers to Tables
101(1)
Summary
101(1)
Sample Questions
102(1)
CHAPTER 10 Adding Interactivity Using Forms
103(10)
Creating Forms
103(2)
Form Name
104(1)
Action
104(1)
Method
104(1)
Enctype
105(1)
Form Objects
105(5)
Text Input Field Objects
105(2)
Buttons
107(1)
Checkboxes
107(1)
Radio Buttons
108(1)
List/Menu Objects
109(1)
File Field Objects
109(1)
Hidden Fields
110(1)
Form Validation
110(1)
Summary
111(1)
Sample Questions
112(1)
PART 3 Reuse, Collaboration, and Automation 113(56)
CHAPTER 11 Managing Site Assets
115(6)
Assets Panel
115(1)
Adding an Asset to a Page
116(1)
Editing Assets
117(1)
Using Favorites
117(1)
Adding and Removing Favorites
117(1)
Nicknaming Favorites
118(1)
Grouping Assets in a Favorites Folder
118(1)
Working with Assets and Sites
118(1)
Summary
119(1)
Sample Questions
119(2)
CHAPTER 12 Using Templates and Library Items
121(14)
Creating Templates
122(1)
Creating Editable Regions
122(2)
Creating New Pages from Templates
124(1)
Creating and Working with Optional Content
125(1)
Creating and Working with Repeating Regions
125(1)
Creating and Working with Editable Tag Attributes
126(1)
Updating Pages Created from Templates
126(1)
Creating Nested Templates
127(1)
Library Items
128(5)
Advantages of Library Items
128(1)
Drawbacks of Library Items
128(1)
Creating Library Items
129(1)
Adding Library Items to Your Documents
129(1)
Editing a Library Item
129(1)
Updating a Library Item
130(1)
Updating All Items in a Site
130(1)
Detaching a Library Item
131(1)
Storing Library Items
131(1)
Managing Library Items with the Assets Panel
132(1)
Summary
133(1)
Sample Questions
134(1)
CHAPTER 13 Editing Code
135(10)
Dreamweaver's Code View
135(3)
Document Toolbar Code Features
136(1)
Coding Toolbar Features
136(1)
Using Tag Definition Libraries
137(1)
Using the Code Inspector
138(1)
Including Server-Side Files
138(4)
Support for SSI
138(1)
Create the SSI File
139(1)
Adding a Server-Side Include
139(1)
Modifying SSI Properties
139(1)
Adding a Server-Side Include Placeholder
140(1)
File Versus Virtual Types
140(1)
Understand SSI Code
141(1)
Advantages
141(1)
Disadvantages
141(1)
Summary
142(1)
Sample Questions
142(3)
CHAPTER 14 Using Behaviors and JavaScript
145(16)
Applying Behaviors
146(1)
Removing Behaviors
147(1)
Behavior Order
147(1)
Target Browser Levels
148(1)
Behaviors and Hyperlinks
149(1)
JavaScript and Behaviors
149(3)
Exploring a Simple Behavior
150(2)
Commonly Used Behaviors
152(6)
Check Browser
152(4)
Go to URL
156(1)
Open Browser Window
156(1)
Swap Image
157(1)
Hide/Show Layers
157(1)
Commonly Used Events
158(1)
Summary
159(1)
Sample Questions
159(2)
CHAPTER 15 Team Collaboration
161(8)
Commenting Files
161(2)
Viewing Comments in Design View
162(1)
Design Notes
163(1)
Enabling and Creating Design Notes
163(1)
Sharing Notes
164(1)
Storage Location
164(1)
Notes Clean Up
164(1)
Check In/Out
164(2)
Using an Enterprise Development Environment
166(1)
Summary
166(1)
Sample Questions
167(2)
PART 4 Testing and Deployment 169(20)
CHAPTER 16 Testing Web Sites
171(6)
Testing Server Setup
171(1)
Checking Links
172(1)
Site Reports
173(1)
Download Time Testing
174(1)
Create "Smaller" Pages
175(1)
Site Map Generation
175(1)
Summary
175(1)
Sample Questions
176(1)
CHAPTER 17 Transferring Files to Remote Servers
177(12)
Remote Site Definition
177(4)
FTP
178(1)
Local/Network
179(1)
Microsoft® Visual SourceSafe®
180(1)
WebDAV
180(1)
Site Preferences
181(1)
Working with Files
181(3)
Connecting and Showing Files
181(1)
Put
182(1)
Get
182(1)
Dependent Files
182(1)
Background File Transfer
182(1)
Cloaking
183(1)
Synchronize
183(1)
Check In/Out
184(1)
Locally Moving and Renaming Files (Drag Around)
184(1)
Design Notes
184(1)
Find and Replace
184(2)
Regular Expressions
185(1)
Summary
186(1)
Sample Questions
187(2)
PART 5 Appendix 189(10)
APPENDIX A Answers
191(8)
Chapter 1
191(1)
Chapter 2
191(1)
Chapter 3
192(1)
Chapter 4
192(1)
Chapter 5
192(1)
Chapter 6
193(1)
Chapter 7
193(1)
Chapter 8
193(1)
Chapter 9
194(1)
Chapter 10
194(1)
Chapter 11
194(1)
Chapter 12
195(1)
Chapter 13
195(1)
Chapter 14
196(1)
Chapter 15
196(1)
Chapter 16
196(1)
Chapter 17
197(2)
Index 199

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