Build your own standards compliant website using Dreamweaver 8 / Rachel Andrew

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Build Your Own Standards Compliant Website with Dreamweaver 8 is writtenfor any user of Dreamweaver who wants to create standards compliant, usableand fully accessible websites.

By applying Web Standards and best-practices, readers will learn to createfast-loading, easy-to-maintain and cross-browser compatible Websites.

This book focuses on using XHTML & semantic markup, CSS Layouts,and accessibility guidelines to show users how to make the most ofDreamweaver 8.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction (p. ix)
• Who Should Read This Book? (p. x)
• What's In This Book? (p. x)
• Further Reading (p. xii)
• The Book's Website (p. xii)
• The Code Archive (p. xii)
• Updates and Errata (p. xiii)
• The SitePoint Forums (p. xiii)
• The SitePoint Newsletters (p. xiii)
• Your Feedback (p. xiii)
• Acknowledgements (p. xiv)
• 1 What are Web Standards? (p. 1)
• Web Standards Defined (p. 1)
• Who Needs Web Standards? (p. 2)
• Web Designers and Developers (p. 3)
• Browser Manufacturers (p. 5)
• Authoring Tool Manufacturers (p. 5)
• Web Users (p. 5)
• Using Web Standards (p. 6)
• Creating a Valid XHTML Document (p. 6)
• Validating your Document (p. 9)
• Using Valid CSS (p. 10)
• Validating for Accessibility (p. 11)
• Applying a Semantic Document Structure (p. 13)
• Separating Presentation from Document Structure (p. 16)
• Summary (p. 16)
• 2 Site Planning and Setting up for Development (p. 19)
• The Code Spark Site Design (p. 19)
• Features of the Code Spark Website (p. 19)
• Designing the Site (p. 21)
• Structuring the Site (p. 24)
• Dealing with Common Elements (p. 24)
• Setting up a Web Server (p. 28)
• Installing Apache (p. 29)
• Testing SSI (p. 33)
• Using IIS as your Local Web Server (p. 35)
• Hosting your Site (p. 35)
• Setting up Dreamweaver (p. 36)
• Your Workspace (p. 38)
• Setting Preferences (p. 40)
• Summary (p. 42)
• 3 XHTML and Semantics (p. 45)
• What is XHTML? (p. 45)
• XML (p. 45)
• XHTML (p. 46)
• What Makes a Valid XHTML Document? (p. 47)
• The DOCTYPE (p. 47)
• The html Element (p. 48)
• The head Element (p. 49)
• The body Element (p. 49)
• XHTML and HTML: the Differences (p. 50)
• Quoting Attribute Values (p. 50)
• Closing all Empty and Non-empty Elements (p. 50)
• Avoiding Minimizing Attributes (p. 51)
• Writing Elements and Attributes in Lowercase (p. 51)
• Nesting Elements Properly (p. 52)
• Using id Instead of name to Identify Elements (p. 52)
• Why use XHTML? (p. 53)
• Creating Clean Markup (p. 53)
• Making Code Easier for Machines to Process (p. 54)
• Boosting the Portability of Content (p. 54)
• Allowing Integration with other XML Applications (p. 54)
• XHTML in Dreamweaver (p. 54)
• Creating New Pages (p. 54)
• Converting Existing Pages (p. 56)
• Semantic Markup (p. 57)
• Using Elements Semantically (p. 59)
• Semantic Markup and Text-Only Devices (p. 66)
• Summary (p. 72)
• 4 Constructing the Document (p. 73)
• The New XHTML Document (p. 73)
• The Main Content Area (p. 76)
• Linking to Other Tutorials (p. 83)
• Displaying Browser Statistics (p. 86)
• Other Page Elements (p. 89)
• The Heading and Main Navigation (p. 93)
• The Sidebar (p. 95)
• Validating your XHTML (p. 99)
• Validation in Dreamweaver (p. 99)
• Summary (p. 100)
• 5 CSS and Dreamweaver (p. 101)
• Why CSS? (p. 101)
• CSS Basics (p. 102)
• Your Basic Toolkit (p. 106)
• Setting Preferences for CSS (p. 106)
• The Page Properties Dialog Box (p. 108)
• The CSS Panel (p. 109)
• The Property Inspector (p. 118)
• Editing CSS in Code View (p. 120)
• Sample CSS Styles (p. 121)
• CSS Page Designs (p. 122)
• Design Time Style Sheets (p. 123)
• The Style Rendering Toolbar (p. 124)
• CSS "Layout Blocks" (p. 124)
• Summary (p. 126)
• 6 Constructing the Layout with CSS (p. 127)
• The Homepage Document (p. 127)
• Defining the Basic Layout (p. 128)
• The Header (p. 129)
• The Content Area (p. 132)
• The Navigation Area (p. 133)
• Creating CSS Rules (p. 133)
• The Body Area (p. 133)
• Styling the Header div (p. 137)
• The Top of the Header Area (p. 140)
• The Accessibility Buttons (p. 144)
• The Main Navigation (p. 147)
• Styling the Navigation Links (p. 149)
• The Properties Pane of the CSS Panel (p. 153)
• The Content Area (p. 154)
• The Content Sections (p. 156)
• Using Dreamweaver Visual Aids (p. 159)
• The Headings (p. 160)
• The Contents of the Homepage Boxes (p. 160)
• Styling Tables (p. 164)
• The Browser Statistics Section (p. 168)
• The Sidebar (p. 170)
• The Search Box (p. 173)
• The Topics List (p. 174)
• The Articles Lists (p. 176)
• Rounding Out the Sidebar (p. 177)
• CSS Validation and Browser Testing (p. 178)
• Validating the Code (p. 178)
• Browser Testing (p. 180)
• Summary (p. 184)
• 7 Accessibility (p. 185)
• Will Considering Accessibility Stop us Creating Exciting Designs? (p. 186)
• Which Users Benefit? (p. 186)
• Which Guidelines are we Working to? (p. 187)
• The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) (p. 187)
• WACG Checkpoint Priorities (p. 187)
• Legislation (p. 190)
• Dreamweaver Tools for Accessibility (p. 192)
• Accessibility in Practice (p. 193)
• Priority 1 (p. 194)
• Priority 2 (p. 205)
• Priority 3 (p. 213)
• Accessibility Validation (p. 219)
• The Dreamweaver Accessibility Validator (p. 220)
• Cynthia Says: Online Validation (p. 221)
• Summary (p. 224)
• 8 Building the Site (p. 225)
• Creating the Includes (p. 226)
• The First Include: head.html (p. 226)
• The Second Include: top.html (p. 228)
• The Final Include: bottom.html (p. 230)
• Creating The Base Page (p. 232)
• The Tutorial List Page (p. 235)
• Creating the Lists (p. 236)
• Adding to the CSS (p. 237)
• An Example Tutorial Page (p. 238)
• Adding CSS for the Tutorial Page (p. 239)
• The Author Image (p. 240)
• The Author Credit and Date (p. 241)
• The Introduction Text (p. 241)
• Inline Images (p. 242)
• Quotes (p. 243)
• Highlighting the Current Section in the Navigation Area (p. 246)
• The Sitemap (p. 249)
• Marking up the Sitemap (p. 251)
• Styling the Sitemap with CSS (p. 255)
• Summary (p. 257)
• 9 Forms and Third-party Services (p. 259)
• The Contact Form (p. 259)
• Marking up the Form (p. 260)
• Laying out the Form with CSS (p. 267)
• Client-side Validation Using Dreamweaver (p. 270)
• Submitting the Form (p. 275)
• Adding a Search Facility (p. 276)
• Creating an Atomz Account (p. 277)
• Adding the Search Form to Your Site (p. 277)
• Editing the Atomz Templates (p. 280)
• Summary (p. 288)
• 10 Alternate Style Sheets (p. 289)
• Accessibility Controls (p. 290)
• Text Resizing (p. 290)
• Switching Style Sheets (p. 299)
• A "Low Graphics" Layout (p. 304)
• Media Types (p. 316)
• Print Style Sheet (p. 317)
• Final Tasks (p. 320)
• Final Validation (p. 321)
• Summary (p. 321)
• Index (p. 323)