Useful Books and Software

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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• A tour of the desktop, covering the toolbars, menu options, the Insert bar, the Document window, the Properties inspector, the Vertical Docking panels, and more
• Popular features such as sophisticated template capabilities and Library items Tracing images, the Quick Tag Editor, Design Notes, and the History palette
• Making the most of Dreamweaver’s site management features, including a Testing Server, the Check IN/Out feature, integrated e-mail, Design Notes, Site Map Layout and more
• Using HTML tables to create page layouts
• 14 different benefits of using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and how to capitalize on them

Dreamweaver 8 For Dummies includes tips to save you time and money so you can create a Web site that makes a big impression without spending big bucks. Whether you’re a beginner who wants to get started or an experienced pro who wants to enhance your skills…whether you want something simple like a site to promote a quaint bed & breakfast or something wild to catapult your rock band to the big time, Dreamweaver gives you the tools and this guide helps you make the most of them. When you’re ready to tackle more complex sites, it covers:

• Using Fireworks with Dreamweaver to automate your workflow, optimize graphics for Web use, and create sophisticated animations, fancy rollovers, and special effects
• Showing off with multimedia: creating Flash buttons and text; adding Flash movie files; working with sound and video files; getting familiar with Java and ActiveX control
• Integrating forms into dynamic, interactive sites and creating shopping cart systems, guest books, contact forms, search engines, chat rooms, and more
• Building a simple database-driven site
• E-commerce basics

With Dreamweaver, you don’t have to be a techie to design and create a terrific Web site. So get this book and get started!

Publisher: For Dummies
Author: Janine C. Warner
Release Date: 2005-10-21
ISBN/EAN: 0764596497 / 9780764596490

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Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Unleashed is your complete reference guide to developing dynamic, data-driven web sites and applications with Dreamweaver 8. Based on the newest version of Dreamweaver, you will find comprehensive and up-to-date instruction on developing complex applications, as well as how to collect information from users, personalize their online experience, and use a variety of built-in site management tools to create the ultimate web site experience. With Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Unleashed, you will learn how to fully exploit Dreamweaver 8 by working with frames and framesets, layers, incorporating multimedia and animation, and adding dynamic elements such as a shopping cart.

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PHP is the most popular Open source server-side scripting language, with extensive support available in Dreamweaver MX. This concise, no-nonsense book teaches you how to develop accessible, standards-compliant PHP-driven websites using PHP 4 and Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004.

PHP Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 presents real-world tutorials so you can expect fast results as you progress through the book. It also covers vital web development topics such as web standards principles and implementation, and it includes a useful setup section to get you up-and-running quickly and easily.

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No other book is positioned to perform for the intermediate-through-advanced user market like Inside UltraDev 4. Each chapter first provides a detailed description of the chapter topic including call-outs that alert the reader to potential pitfalls. This discussion is followed by a step-by-step exercise, during which the reader will construct an element of a Website based on the chapter topic. The final section of each chapter focuses specifically on technical aspects. These discussions range from the detailed analysis of specific code to the troubleshooting of common database connectivity issues and provide advanced users with the ability to extend the results of the exercises. The exercises in each chapter come together to form a complete project that constructs a fully-functional Website.

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With this book you'll quickly be creating powerful, dynamic web sites with Dreamweaver MX - the latest version of Macromedia's powerful, integrated web development and editing tool.

You'll learn how to use the tools and features of Dreamweaver to construct three complete sites using HTML, JavaScript, Active Server Pages (ASP), and databases.

We start by creating a hobbyist site - The Cooking Place - that you can use to list your favorite recipes, ingredients, and dishes.

What does this book cover?

As you build this site you'll learn how to use Dreamweaver MX to

• Plan, create, and set up a web site
• Add web pages to the site and edit their content
• Use Stylesheets and templates to create a consistent style across the site
• Use tables, frames, and layers to lay out web pages
• Add dynamic effects - like drop down menus - to web pages using JavaScript and DHTML
• Interact with users via forms on web pages
• Create dynamic ASP web pages to respond to user actions and input

As you progress through the book, the sites you create become ever more ambitious. The second site you build is a fan site for soccer that provides information on upcoming events for fans around the world.

As you build the second site you'll learn how to use Dreamweaver MX to:

• Add logic to your ASP pages, so that you can display different information to different users, based on their location, or even the time of day
• Keep track of users as they move around the site, so that you can learn what parts of your site are the most popular
• Secure parts of the web site so that only authorized users are allowed to see sensitive information
• Personalize the web site for individual users - so that the site appears in the colors of the user's favorite team or so that the user only sees events in their home country
• Store and extract information about users and upcoming events in a database - and use this information to dynamically create web pages

The final site in the book shows off many of the advanced features of Dreamweaver MX, as you walk through how to design a modular, extensible, and scalable site, and create a set of dynamic building blocks that can be quickly modified and reused in different sites.

As you build this site - which is used to display a set of images that users can view and purchase - you'll learn how to use Dreamweaver MX to:

• Create a set of building blocks whose look and content is determined dynamically by the settings in a database
• Create a content management page that you can use to mange the database that stores information about the images on the site, including their title, price, and how they should be laid out
• Put the building blocks you created earlier to a variety of uses, including a news blogger, a media display, and a product display
• Use Dreamweaver Extensions to make our building blocks easy to reuse and to add e-commerce functionality to the site

At the end of some of the chapters you'll find a series of suggested exercises from the author that are designed to test your understanding of what's been covered in the chapter as well as to encourage you to experiment with the features of Dreamweaver MX and to modify and extend the example applications.

Who is this book for?

This book is primarily for complete beginners to web site programming who have access to Dreamweaver MX and want to learn how to create dynamic web sites with it.

But the book doubles as a comprehensive reference to the features of Dreamweaver MX, so it will also be a useful resource to more experienced web developers who want to learn how to use the latest version of Dreamweaver.

As you work through the book, you'll learn how to program using Active Server Pages (ASP), but this will prove useful even if you eventually want to use Dreamweaver MX to create web sites with JavaServer Pages (JSP), ASP.NET, PHP, or ColdFusion MX. Programming in any of these languages is very similar in Dreamweaver MX, and the core concepts you learn in building web sites with ASP are applicable and easily transferred to other languages. To help, the book includes four appendices that provide fast paced guides on how to get started using JSP, ASP.NET, PHP, and ColdFusion MX with Dreamweaver MX.

What do you need to use this book?

To run the examples in this book on your computer you'll need:

• Dreamweaver MX
• Microsoft Windows 98, 98SE, 2000 or XP Professional

If you don't have a copy of Dreamweaver MX you can download a 30-day evaluation edition from Macromedia at http://www.macromedia.com/software/trial_download/. The evaluation edition is fully-featured, and you'll be able to use it to work through all the examples in the book.

If you have Microsoft Windows Me, Windows XP Home Edition, or a Macintosh you'll still be able to create all the examples in the book but to see them in action you'll need to use a remote server, as your operating system doesn't, by default, include a web server that can process ASP pages. Fortunately, getting access to an ASP web host is easy -- there are dozens available. And to make things even easier, the book includes detailed information on how to set up a web application to use a remote server or web host.

Publisher: Wrox
Authors: Charles E. Brown, Imar Spaanjaars, Todd Marks
Release Date: 2003-02-10
ISBN/EAN: 0764544047 / 9780764544040

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