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Learn Dreamweaver 4 using IconLogic's critically acclaimed "skills & drills" approach.

This book has been designed to quickly teach you all of the essential skills necessary to work with this fantastic web page development tool. You will learn how to define sites, format text using cascading style sheets, use the new Design View to create tables, use the History palette, import text into a table and format tables, create templates, use libraries, create and work with online forms, create and use frames, add animation and even FTP your completed files to your Internet Service Provider. All this, and most people will be able to finish within 2 short days (or less).

The book comes with a CD that contains all of the student data files necessary to complete the book. All you need is a Macintosh or PC, Dreamweaver 4, this book and a few days.

Note: Dreamweaver 4 does not come with this book. You can download a free demo version from Macromedia's web site.

Here's exactly what you'll learn:

Module One Lessons: The Basics

What is HTML? | Dreamweaver's Role | Site Management Essentials | Browsers, Versions & HTML Overview | HTML Basic Structure | Explore Dreamweaver's Palettes | Define a New Site | Create an Index Page | Add Content to a Page | Preview a Web Page in a Browser | Hexadecimal Color | Modify Page Properties | Heading Tags | Format Text on a Web Page | HyperLinks | Link Web Pages Together | Link Web Pages to Web Sites | Add an Email Link | Use the History Palette

Module Two Lessons: Tables & Layers

Define a New Site | Set Page Properties | Import Table Data | Sort a Table | Add Rows and Merge Cells | Format a Table | Use the New Design View to Create Tables | Add a Tracing Image | Create Layers | Add Images to Layers | Convert Layers to a Table

Module Three Lessons: Templates

Templates Overview | Define a New Site | Create a Template | Add Layers to a Template | Insert Images Inside Layers | Add an Editable Region to a Template | Assign a Template to Web Pages | Link Images to Web Pages Using a Template | Create an Image Map | Create and Use Library Items | Update Library Items

Module Four Lessons: HTML Source & CSS

Use Code View | CSS Overview | Redefine an HTML Tag | Style Sheet Classes | Create a Custom Class | Use Custom Styles | Edit a Custom Style | Create an External Style Sheet | Apply an External Style Sheet | Edit an External Style Sheet | Make Styles Compatible with 3.0 Browsers | Behaviors & JavaScript Overview | Add a Check Browser Behavior

Module Five Lessons: Forms

Forms Overview | Define a New Site | Create a Basic Form with Text Boxes | Add Radio Buttons | Add a Check Box | Add a Drop Down List | Add a Text Field with Scroll Bars and a Value | Add Submit and Reset Buttons | Set Form Properties

Module Six Lessons: Frames

Frames Overview | Define a New Site | Create a Frameset | Add Content to a Frameset | Region | Name Frameset Regions | Link Files into Named Frameset Regions | Link a Frameset Region into Itself | Control Frame Properties

Module Seven Lessons: Behaviors & Timelines

The Drag Layer Behavior | Add the Drag Layer Behavior | Add the Swap Image Behavior (Rollover Effects) | Timelines Overview | Create a Timeline | Extend a Timeline | Add Keyframes

Module Eight Lessons: Site Management & FTP

Retrieve and Delete Sites | Check and Repair Site-wide Links | Designate a Page as the Home Page | Explore the Site Map | Use the Site Map to Link Files Together | Set Up FTP Access | Add Design Notes to a File | FTP Files to a Host

Publisher: IconLogic
Author: Kevin A. Siegel
Release Date: 2001-01
ISBN/EAN: 1891762672 / 9781891762673

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Beginners and intermediate users will appreciate the solid foundation provided in the opening 12 chapters. Readers are given a quick tour of the work environment, shown how a sample site is built up from scratch, and introduced to all the features of Dreamweaver. Here and throughout Dreamweaver 3 Bible, the text is augmented by frequent screenshots (from the Windows platform, although the text includes Macintosh instructions and commands) and applicable generated HTML code. More importantly, the book provides ample reasons for why things work the way they do and examples of how a feature might be put to use.

Other sections of the book cover frames, tables, forms, objects, behaviors, integrating Shockwave and Flash, working with layers, creating templates, using the Library, and many more topics. The appendices cover the companion text editors (Homesite 4.5 for Windows users, BBedit 5 for Mac users) and CourseBuilder for creating instructional Web pages. The companion CD-ROM includes 30-day trials of Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, and CourseBuilder, plus lots of extensions and sample files mentioned in the text.

Changes since the last edition include all the new features of Dreamweaver 3: the History palette, Design Notes, and the enhanced interrelationship with Fireworks, for example. Many processes are now automated in the latest version, like creating a command out of a group of steps from the History palette. Within Dreamweaver 3 Bible, new features like these are set in a different font and marked by an icon in the margin, making it easy for those already familiar with Dreamweaver to quickly access what's new.

One great benefit of a well-written book such as this is the confidence one gains with the application--confidence to look beyond the text and explore on one's own. This is especially fulfilling given Dreamweaver's expandability. By helping readers customize Dreamweaver, the text saves hours and hours of work time. --Angelynn Grant

Topics covered:

• Thorough instruction on all features of Dreamweaver 3
• Introduction to the work environment
• How to customize features and preferences
• Creating Web pages and managing sites
• Using the History palette
• Creating commands
• Using the new HTML styles
• Effectively using Templates and Libraries
• Working with Fireworks integration
• Working with DHTML, JavaScript, XML and CSS
• Incorporating plug-ins, ActiveX objects, and Java applets

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Dreamweaver MX Magic will give you time-saving solutions presented in a user-friendly manner. Your project based-guide to learning Dreamweaver MX tips, tricks, and best practices with 13 unique tutorials is easy to follow step-by-step tutorials guide you through the projects.

The authors use their knowledge of Dreamweaver MX to select approximately 13 areas that are troublesome for professional users of Dreamweaver. They examine each of these areas through carefully designed projects. Each project provides guidance in the form of tips, tricks, and best practices to enhance the reader's ability to use Dreamweaver MX effectively.

Creating dynamic, database-driven Web sites used to be too cumbersome for anyone but serious hand-coding programmers. Now, thanks to Dreamweaver's improved code generation tools, you can use Dreamweaver MX and ColdFusion MX to bypass the hurdles formerly involved with creating dynamic Web applications. ColdFusion MX Development with Dreamweaver MX: Visual QuickPro Guide, written by Macromedia's own certified instructors and developers, eases you into creating complex Web applications using these improved code generation tools. The book relies on the Visual QuickPro Guide's trademark task-based format with plenty of screenshots to show you how to use Dreamweaver's built-in wizards and behaviors before moving on to tackle more complex tasks such as creating and assigning variables and performing more advanced coding in the Code View.

If you've hit a wall with your site and want to quickly and easily transform it into a full-fledged Web application through the addition of dynamic elements and database connectivity, no other book will help you reach your goal faster. Easy-to-follow step-by-step tasks let you get to work from the very first chapter, and in no time, you'll be creating database-driven Web applications that can process forms, display data from databases, prompt for logins, send email, and more.

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As a designer himself, author Jeffrey Bardzell is keenly aware of the dilemma you're faced with today: With clients and users demanding more than the static, HTML pages that defined first-generation Web sites, you have no choice but to migrate to dynamic, service based sites. But that means a world of programming, servers, databases, and configuration options you know little about. Not to worry: Dynamic Macromedia Dreamweaver MX: Advanced Training from the Source has you covered.

Through the graphics-intensive, self-paced tutorials that form the heart of this popular series, Bardzell takes you through everything you need to know to start designing dynamic, database-driven sites using the powerful new tools available in Macromedia Dreamweaver MX. And unlike other books, this one assumes no prior knowledge of programming or database concepts, terms, and techniques. If you've ever created static HTML pages, you'll be able to dive right in with tutorials that cover configuration options, programming basics, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX's server behaviors, and connecting to databases-all in the context of overhauling a static HTML site into a dynamic, maintainable business application, with code you can use in your own projects!

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A typical page of this short but fact-dense book (which is printed entirely in full color--a real advantage for a book so focused on graphic design) contains two tips. They sometimes have to do with design ideas and occasionally deal with elements of HTML, JavaScript, or stylesheet code, but more often concern little-known capabilities or user-interface details of Dreamweaver MX. For example, in a section about aligning text between two flanking images, the authors explain the exact procedure to follow and offer some warnings about how it's possible for the strategy to go awry. More useful to browsers than as a reference, you'll almost certainly expand your knowledge of Dreamweaver MX with this book. --David Wall

Topics covered: How to convert your mere competence with Dreamweaver MX into profitable efficiency.

Publisher: New Riders Press
Authors: Joseph Lowery, Angela C. Buraglia
Release Date: 2003-01-10
ISBN/EAN: 0735713022 / 9780735713024

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This book has been designed to quickly teach you all of the essential skills necessary to master this fantastic web page development tool. You will learn how to define sites, format text using cascading style sheets, use the new History palette, import text into a table and format tables, create templates, use libraries, create and work with online forms, create and use frames, add animation and even FTP your completed files to your internet service provider.

All this... and most people will be able to finish within 2 short days (or less).

The book comes with a 3 1/2 inch floppy disk that contains all of the student data files necessary to complete the book. All you need is a computer with Dreamweaver 3.0 installed, this book and a few days.

Publisher: Iconlogic
Author: Kevin A. Siegel
Release Date: 2000-05-01
ISBN/EAN: 1891762443 / 9781891762444

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