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He is also the author of Joseph Lowery’s Beyond Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver MX 2004 Killer Tips (with Angela Buraglia), and Dreamweaver MX 2004 Web Application Recipes and Dreamweaver 8 Recipes (with Eric Ott), all published by New Riders. He has also written books on HTML and on using the Internet for business. His books are international bestsellers, having sold more than 400,000 copies worldwide in eleven different languages. Joe is also a consultant and trainer and has presented at Seybold in both Boston and San Francisco, Adobe conferences in the U.S. and Europe, and at ThunderLizard’s Web Design World. He is currently a partner in Mark of the Joe Communications, an eLearning consultancy. About the Technical Editor Derren Whiteman has been working on computer books as an author, ghost writer, and techni- cal editor since 1999. He has served as technical editor for this release of the Dreamweaver Bible and the previous five versions of it, and provided technical editing and screenshot creation for other books, including Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips and Dreamweaver MX 2004 Killer Tips. On the Fireworks side, Derren is the coauthor of the Fireworks MX Bible and technical editor of Adobe’s Fireworks CS4 Classroom in a Book and the Fireworks 3 and 4 Bibles. In all, he has made substantive contributions to 17 books on Dreamweaver and Fireworks. Derren practices what he preaches by using Dreamweaver and Fireworks in the Web design field and can often be found in discussions about why you don’t “need” to use Photoshop to create great Web sites. When not working in Web-related fields, Derren enjoys digital photography, videography, and DVD creation, usually entailing the use of iMovie, iDVD, Final Cut Express, or DVD Studio Pro. He is an avid Mac user and Apple proponent who makes his home in Toronto, Canada. 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Trent Cover Image Joyce Haughey Credits [...]... 11 14 Chapter 32: Integrating with XML and XSLT. 11 15 Understanding XML 11 16 Exporting XML 11 18 Importing XML 11 21 Building Your Own XML Files 11 22 Styling with XSL 11 23 Including XSLT fragments 11 23 Building full XSLT pages 11 33 Summary 11 40 xxvi... 11 59 Using the Keyboard Shortcut editor 11 60 Adjusting the menus.xml file 11 62 Building menu commands 11 67 Working with Custom Tags 11 68 Customizing Property Inspectors 11 71 Coding a Property inspector 11 71 Designing a Property inspector 11 75 Making Custom Floating Panels 11 76 Developing Translators 11 79... Part VII: Extending Dreamweaver 11 41 Chapter 33: Customizing Dreamweaver. 11 43 Adding New Commands 11 44 Understanding Dreamweaver commands 11 45 Recording and replaying commands 11 48 Scripting commands 11 51 Useful command routines 11 53 Managing Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts 11 58 Handling History... 10 23 Chapter 30: Maximizing Cross-Browser Compatibility 10 43 Chapter 31: Building Web Sites with a Team 10 61 Chapter 32: Integrating with XML and XSLT 11 15 Part VII: Extending Dreamweaver 11 41 Chapter 33: Customizing Dreamweaver 11 43 Chapter 34: Handling Server Behaviors 11 93 Chapter 35: Creating Adobe AIR Applications 12 27... 11 80 Locking code 11 82 Extending C-Level Libraries 11 83 Calling C-level extensions 11 84 Building C-level extensions 11 85 Customizing Your Tag Libraries 11 86 Editing tag libraries, tags, and attributes 11 86 Creating and deleting tag libraries, tags, and attributes 11 88 Importing a DTD or schema to create a new tag library 11 90... 11 90 Chapter 34: Handling Server Behaviors. 11 93 Understanding Server Behaviors 11 94 Applying and Managing Server Behaviors 11 95 Inserting and removing server behaviors 11 95 Editing the parameters 11 96 Standard Server Behaviors 11 97 Recordset (Query) 11 97 Repeat Region 11 98... 12 20 Creating Custom Server Behaviors 12 21 Summary .12 25 Chapter 35: Creating Adobe AIR Applications. 12 27 About Adobe AIR 12 28 Installing AIR into Dreamweaver 12 30 Designing for AIR 12 31 Packaging Your AIR Application 12 35 Summary 12 41 Appendix A: What’s New in Dreamweaver CS5. ... 11 4 New Document preferences 11 6 Adjusting Advanced Features 11 8 Accessibility preferences 11 8 AP Elements preferences 11 9 CSS Styles preferences 12 2 Making Online Connections 12 4 Site preferences 12 4 Preview In Browser preferences 12 7 Customizing Your Code 12 9 Fonts preferences 12 9... 10 09 Exporting a site without template markup 10 10 Changing the Default Document 10 11 Editing Content in the Browser 10 12 Setting up InContext Editing templates 10 13 Registering an InContext Editing site 10 18 Making edits online 10 20 Summary 10 22 Chapter 29: Using Library Items and Server-side Includes. 10 23... Paging 11 99 Move To Specific Record 12 00 Show Region 12 01 Go To Detail Page 12 02 Go To Related Page 12 04 Insert Record .12 05 xxvii Contents Update Record .12 06 Delete Record 12 07 User authentication 12 08 Dynamic elements 12 13 Stored procedure/command/callable 12 18 Installing Additional . Additional Dreamweaver techniques Adobe ® Dreamweaver ® CS5 Adobe ® Dreamweaver ® CS5 Bible Adobe ® Dreamweaver ® CS5 Bible Joseph Lowery Adobe Dreamweaver CS5. . . .11 41 Chapter 33: Customizing Dreamweaver 11 43 Chapter 34: Handling Server Behaviors 11 93 Chapter 35: Creating Adobe AIR Applications 12 27 Appendix A: What’s New in Dreamweaver CS5 12 43 Appendix. preferences 10 0 Preferences for invisible elements 10 6 Highlighting preferences 10 8 Status Bar preferences 10 9 File Types/Editors preferences 11 1 Copy/Paste preferences 11 4 New Document preferences 11 6 Adjusting