Whether you're a professional Web developer or you're brand new to the Web, "Dreamweaver 3 for Dummies" will have you designing sophisticated Web sites in no time. This easy-to-use guide is designed to make creating a Web site more intuitive and efficient. Filled with practical tips and easy to follow step-by-step instructions, this book will be your secret weapon in the race to design beautiful and functional high-end Web sites. When it comes to the most advanced HTML features, such as Dynamic HTML and Cascading Style Sheets; this book really shines making it fun and easy to add animations, rollover effects, and multimedia to bring your site to life. Includes a CD-ROM packed with Dreamweaver and Fireworks tryouts, valuable templates, scripts, objects, artwork, and useful utilities.
With Dreamweaver 3 and Dreamweaver 3 for Dummies, there's no excuse for not updating your Web site. Dreamweaver 3 provides a good foundation in site design, and it outshines competing applications by offering both a WYSIWYG tool (What You See Is What You Get) and a powerful HTML text editor. While the book explores many aspects of the application, it also surveys the basics of HTML, giving readers a broader knowledge of how Web pages work.
For users who created their sites using another Web authoring application, the author dedicates a chapter to common conversion problems in Macromedia's software. Users starting from scratch will find an extensive chapter on site planning, such as deciding on functionality goals and targeting your audience.
The book begins with a review of the work environment. Then it's on to creating a site and working with the site management tools. Efficiently working with Dreamweaver requires a thorough understanding of features like Templates, the Library, Tracing Image, and History palette. This Dummies guide does a good job of showing not only how to use these, but why they're important for optimizing the creation and maintenance of your site.
This book also features a section on creating images with Fireworks 3 and using them within Dreamweaver. Dynamic HTML, layers, and behaviors are covered, including more advanced uses of these features in timeline animations. Adding multimedia like Shockwave or Flash movies, or including Java or ActiveX, may exceed early aspirations for readers of this book, yet the guide clearly explains the many options offered for implementing these enhancements.
The book concludes by analyzing sites created with Dreamweaver and offers some design and timesaving tips (including a list of online resources). The CD-ROM holds trial versions of the software plus numerous plug-ins such as HTML Rename!, a filename conversion program useful for cross-platform work. You'll also find extra behaviors and templates, sample images and Flash files, to supplement the learning process and a glossary of Web and Dreamweaver lingo useful for beginners. --Angelynn Grant
Topics covered: Basic instruction on using Dreamweaver 3, including creating a site, pages, formatting text, placing images, making links, working with tables, forms, frames, DHTML, and plug-ins; creating graphics in Fireworks 3 and integrating them in Dreamweaver. CD-ROM includes 30-day trial versions of Dreamweaver 3 and Fireworks 3, HTML Rename!, demo versions of companion software like BBEdit Lite 4.6 and the latest browsers, extra Dreamweaver behaviors and templates and sample images and Flash animations.
Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Dreamweaver in 24 Hours shows Web developers and designers how to use Macromedia's powerful Web development tool to create sophisticated Web sites. Written by Betsy Bruce, an authorized trainer who has taught Dreamweaver to thousands of beginning students, the book does not dwell on elementary Web page authoring techniques, but focuses more on intermediate-level Web development topics like building dynamic Web sites, creating image maps and interactive forms, designing animations, setting up frames, and adding interactivity. This edition of the book has been thoroughly revised and updated to cover all the new features of the latest version of Dreamweaver.
This best-selling guide to Macromedia Dreamweaver is now completely revised to cover the newest upgrade of this professional Web development program. Dreamweaver, which combines sophisticated design tools with excellent site management and source code control, appeals to both Web designers and programmers alike. Dreamweaver 4 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide includes all-new coverage of Dreamweaver 4's latest upgrades and features, from setting up a local site and creating basic Web pages to using style sheets, layers, frames, and dynamic media. The popular Visual QuickStart Guide format offers hundreds of screen shots, clear step-by-step directions, and an easy-to-navigate tab format that lets users go straight to the subject they want.
How to Use Dreamweaver and Fireworks visually shows Web designers how to use Macromedia's Dreamweaver and Fireworks to create sophisticated, well-designed Web pages. The book's full-color, two-page spreads illustrate and clearly explain each Dreamweaver and Fireworks task, from entry-level, beginning concepts to more advanced techniques for experienced designers. Dreamweaver and Fireworks can be somewhat intimidating for the beginning user, but How to Use Dreamweaver and Fireworks, with its visual, step-by-step approach, makes it easy to learn the basic techniques involved in using these products. Written by Lon Coley, a principal at a leading British Web design firm, this edition of the book covers the latest versions of both Dreamweaver and Fireworks.
The only classroom-based training and self-assessment system! Osborne's "Dreamweaver Developer Certification Study Guide provides 100% complete coverage of all objectives for this challenging exam. Based on 300,000+ hours of IT training experience, the book contains hundreds of practice exam questions and hands-on exercises. The CD-ROM features full practice exam software with interactive tutorials and lab simulations, plus an adaptive test engine.
Publisher:
McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
Author:
Marc Campbell
Release Date: 2002-09-16
ISBN/EAN: 0072223707 / 9780072223705
Why reinvent the wheel every time you design a new Web site? With this book, you don't have to. By providing real-world recipes for building dynamic Web applications using Dreamweaver with ASP, ColdFusion, or PHP, this book shows you how to save time and money while focusing on the things that make your site unique. In these pages, a trio of Dreamweaver experts provides reusable recipes for User Login, Employee Lookup, Conference Room Scheduler, Survey Builder, In/Out Board, Time Card, Journal, and E-Mail Merge. Included are thorough explanations of all of Dreamweaver MX 2004's new features: dynamic cross-browser validation, improved CSS support, built-in graphics editing, secure FTP, tighter integration with other Macromedia tools, enhanced coding tools, and more. Each recipe includes discussions of application structure, database components, data binding concerns, and application-specific issues. The end result is a collection of recipes for Dreamweaver success that you'll find yourself using again and again.
Publisher:
New Riders Press
Authors:
Joseph Lowery, Eric Ott
Release Date: 2003-12-04
ISBN/EAN: 0735713200 / 9780735713208
Even if you've never used Macromedia Dreamweaver before, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide will have you up and running with Macromedia's popular Web authoring program in no time. This completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to Macromedia Dreamweaver uses step-by-step, task-based instructions to explain all of the program's basic tools and how to use them to design a Web site. The book covers the program's existing features as well as its new ones, including its site setup wizard, context-sensitive toolbar, snippets, and enhanced coding tools. Whether you're using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX as a WYSIWYG page-layout tool and never want to write HTML, or if you're a hand coder who prefers using a sophisticated text editor, you'll find Macromedia Dreamweaver MX for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide indispensable.
Designed to help you build and develop Web sites using Dreamweaver3 in just 24 lessons of one hour or less using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, with each lesson building upon the previous one, allowing you to learn the essentials of Dreamweaver from the ground up. Softcover.
Building contemporary Web pages isn't easy, but using a tool like Macromedia's Dreamweaver makes it easier. Learning to use a tool like Dreamweaver isn't always easy either, but going through the lessons in Teach Yourself Dreamweaver 3 breaks it down into bite (byte?)-size chunks that anyone can digest.
Although oriented toward the new user, the book does not go into historical detail about the Internet or Web browsers, nor does it talk about how computers work. Dreamweaver is the only topic discussed, and no time is wasted in climbing the curve.
Chapter 1 is dedicated to the Dreamweaver interface and getting around the program. The different palettes (Object palette, Property inspector, etc.) are explained briefly, along with almost all menu items. The main window and new features of version 3 are also described. This is a critical chapter, so you really shouldn't skip it. Because of the conciseness of the writing, this chapter, like the others, covers an enormous amount of material quickly. A skipped paragraph will result in questions later on.
Subsequent chapters cover the basics of page construction and adding graphics, links, and other features to a page. The chapters advance rapidly to important topics like navigation via image maps, using tables, getting information through forms, cascading style sheets, using frames, and assigning behaviors.
Even if you're already using Dreamweaver, the lessons in this book will acquaint you with shortcuts and techniques you may not know about. And because concepts are presented with such clarity, you may find yourself learning and using advanced features that seemed too complex before. --Mike Caputo
Packed with the latest Dreamweaver tips and techniques
Get up to speed fast and start creating dynamite Web sites!
Do you want to create a sophisticated Web site that's easy to develop and maintain? Whether you're a beginner or an experienced Web developer, this friendly guide shows you how to utilize Dreamweaver's newest enhancements to build and manage state-of-the-art, professional Web sites quickly and easily.
Set up your site and create new pages
Work with text, graphics, and links
Define and apply styles using CSS
Add audio, video, and Flash® files to your site
Use Dreamweaver's database features
Publisher:
For Dummies
Author:
Janine C. Warner
Release Date: 2007-05-07
ISBN/EAN: 0470114908 / 9780470114902
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Unleashed is the most complete reference guide to cover Dreamweaver MX's powerful features that aid in server-side programming, as well as strategies for designing, managing and developing sophisticated Web sites.
A reference for advanced users on complex application development techniques, this book guides developers into the realm of dynamic sites enabling a richer experience for the end user.
Developers learn how to collect information from a user and personalize their Web experience and how to use Dreamweaver MX management tools that aren't thoroughly covered in other intermediate-level Dreamweaver books.
