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Dreamweaver is Macromedias best-selling web design/development environment, and the updated version of Dreamweaver will be available later this year. Dreamweaver has the capability to generate dynamic website code using server-side languages like ASP, PHP, and ASP.NET. We know that you don't always require a full database driven site though, so this book focuses on using the latest version of Dreamweaver to design and create usable, standards-compliant websites using XHTML and CSS. One of the highlights of this version is much closer, tighter CSS/XHTML. This book will show you how to make the most of that feature.

After a brief introduction to the latest version of Dreamweaver, and how CSS and XHTML fit into it, Craig looks at using the software for your web design projects in a hands-on, task based manner, covering these topics:

• Setting up a site in Dreamweaver
• Global web site essentials, such as dealing with doctypes, meta tags, comments, and page defaults, and attaching CSS and JavaScript files to your page
• Styling page content properly using CSS
• Working with images
• Creating web site navigation
• CSS for impressive page layouts that work
• Getting user feedback via forms

Following these exercises, the book then shows how to bring everything together with a final case study using Dreamweaver to build a complete web site.

Summary of Contents:

• Chapter 1: A New Kind of Web Design
• Chapter 2: Getting Started with Dreamweaver
• Chapter 3: Setting Up a Website
• Chapter 4: Web Page Essentials
• Chapter 5: Working with Text
• Chapter 6: Working with Images
• Chapter 7: Creating Navigation for Your Website
• Chapter 8: Web Page Layouts
• Chapter 9: Getting User Feedback
• Chapter 10: Putting It All into Practice

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Using a very practical approach, the book is a series of tutorials working toward a common goal. By the end of the final chapter, and after building a functional site, the reader comes away with working knowledge of how UltraDev works. Fourteen chapters lead the reader from the very beginning (setting up the software and a local database engine) through building a site, moving data between the database and the pages of the site, setting up user logins and shopping carts, using e-mail functions, and more.

Many graphics designers quickly shy away from the technical end of site design, but the authors have done a wonderful job of keeping things simple and clear. Each chapter is concisely written, offering step-by-step instruction and plenty of screen shots. Each chapter builds on the last, and the result is a Web site with all the functions of a true commerce site. The ideas and features learned can be easily adapted to almost any site concept.

Often, it is not enough to be a talented graphics artist when selling yourself as a Web designer. Customers increasingly want more than fancy graphics, and, in addition, demand sites that are dynamic, constantly updated, and able to tie into a database of some kind. This kind of work is not for every designer, but the combination of Dreamweaver UltraDev and this book make a project like this less intimidating. --Mike Caputo

Dreamweaver Ultradev 4 combines the hugely popular Dreamweaver interface with point-and-click middle-tier programming capability with ASP, JSP and ColdFusion. Dreamweaver Ultradev effectively upgrades the skillset of millions of Dreamweaver web-developers, by now enabling them to build dynamic content into their sites without having to become full-time programmers. The Swiss army knife of software tools, Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 lets graphic designers create great-looking, data-driven web sites with visual ease, while at the same time for programmers it provides a powerful productivity tool for generating reams of code fast. This book uses a PC platform for all examples.

Publisher: Peer Information Inc.
Authors: Rob Paddock, Spencer Steel
Release Date: 2001-01-15
ISBN/EAN: 1903450349 / 9781903450345

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With its powerful combination of visual layout tools, application development features, and code editing support, Dreamweaver MX 2004 is sure to become the constant companion of many Web developers. Here to get you hands-on with it fast is the definitive project-based training on the topic from one of the master teachers at Linda.com training. Using a combination of project-based lessons, guided exercises, and QuickTime tutorials, veteran author Garo Green walks you through all the Dreamweaver MX 04 basics: navigating the new interface, creating and managing Web sites, and linking among pages. You'll learn about frames and forms, cascading style sheets, and Fireworks and Flash integration, and gobble up Garos about best layout and typography practices. You'll also find extensive coverage of all of Dreamweaver's newest features: dynamic cross-browser validation, improved CSS support, built-in graphics editing, and more. Throughout, Garo shows you not just how to do something but why you¿re doing it and the results of your actions.

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As the Web has evolved, so too have users' expectations of it--which means that today's Web developers are being forced to deal with issues that weren't even considerations not long ago. How do you develop a site that customizes itself to individual users? How can you design your site so that even nontechnical users will be able to contribute content? To answer these questions and more, you need this book. By examining your favorite Web authoring program--Dreamweaver MX 2004--in the context of databases and the technology solutions that have grown out of them, this book/CD combo will have you moving from static to dynamic sites in no time. You don't need programming experience to construct the fictional travel tour site that's the centerpiece of this volume. Just follow along with the 16 hands-on lessons (which include side-by-side ASP PHP, and ColdFusion code), and you'll be well on your way to the interactive, easy-to-maintain, and standards-compliant sites that represent the way of the future.

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Harness the power of Templates in Dreamweaver MX! With the release of Dreamweaver MX, the functionality and power of templates is greatly enhanced. In Dreamweaver MX Templates, the authors provide an in-depth examination of the templates functionality, along with Dreamweaver's other reusable design elements: library items and snippets. This examination is cast in the context of the development of a web site for a fictitious company. Early chapters will provide the foundational information about templates, library items, snippets, and assets. The second part of the book will focus on providing detailed instructions about how to use templates and reusable elements to create a corporate web site. In addition to step-by-step instructions, the authors include tips, notes, and warnings. The web site will include the completed project and all necessary files to create that site; extensions that have been created specifically for the book; a support forum; and other items to be determined during the course of development.

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Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Hands-On Training is the latest, updated version of the highly acclaimed publication from the leading trainers on Dreamweaver at lynda.com. In this book, readers will find carefully developed lessons and exercises that teach readers modern Web design techniques and workflow with the latest version, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. Now that the software is an integral part of the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium, Web Standard, and Design Premium packages, there is an even greater need for the clear, step-by-step approach this book offers. Readers will learn to define a Web site; lay out pages effectively with Cascading Style Sheets; use tables; create rollovers; work with templates, media objects, and forms; and design for mobile devices. They'll also learn how to use the new features in Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, including the new Spry framework for Ajax, Spry widgets and effects, advanced Photoshop CS3 integration, a new Browser Compatibility Check feature, CSS layouts, a new Manage CSS feature, integration with Adobe Device Control for creating mobile content, and Adobe Bridge CS3. Accompanied by a CD-ROM loaded with classroom-proven exercises and QuickTime training videos, this book ensures you'll master the key features of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 in no time.

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