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Summary: great for the beginner
Comment: david really gives you the tools to build a professional website, even if you are completely new to dreamweaver. if you go through his exercises/tutorials, you'll really get to know the functions of dreamweaver and can take off with them. when i'm making websites, i never hesistate to consult this book, which is fast and easy to read and understand.
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Summary: Dreamweaver ABC's and XYZ's
Comment: By far the best Dreamweaver 8 resource I've found both for a novice and advanced user. It has everything and is clearly written to cater to both a design or code oriented web designer. You won't be disappointed!!!!
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Summary: Success!
Comment: I have never developed a website, nor know anything about HTML. I bought Dreamweaver. Although my website design is not overly complex (nor is it simple), I had many questions that I could not answer within the help system of Dreamweaver. I was in trouble. I bought this book. This book had all of the answers that I needed. The writing style is lighthearted enough to raise a smile now and then, but does not waste the reader's time. The descriptions are complete with copious illustrations and germane examples. Now I have a clean design based on templates and CSS that does the job and is easy to maintain.
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Summary: Useful Tutorial
Comment: I have several of the Missing Manual series and found them much better than the scant information software publishers provide these days. The Dreamweaver Missing Manual works you through all aspects of the program with detailed tutorials covering everything from CSS programming to setting up ecommerce sites.
BW Tucson AZ
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Summary: Thorough book on making the most of Dreamweaver 8
Comment: Dreamweaver is a complete Web site production and management tool that works with Web technologies like HTML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This book provides great insight into using this tool. Along with basic instruction it also has tips I haven't found anywhere else. As you read the book's chapters, there are a number of living examples--step-by-step tutorials that you can build yourself, using raw materials like graphics and half-completed Web pages that you can download from from the web. Simply reading these step-by-step lessons might not gain you much. However, if you take the time to work through the examples at the computer, you'll discover that these tutorials give you unprecedented insight into the way professional designers build Web pages. Also in this book's lessons are the URLs of the finished pages so that you can compare your Dreamweaver work with the final result. In other words, you won't just see pictures of Dreamweaver's output in the pages of the book. You can also find the actual working Web pages on the Internet.
Part One, Building a Web Page, explores Dreamweaver's interface and goes through the basic steps of building a Web page. It explains how to add text and format it, how to link from one page to another, and how to spice up your designs with graphics.
Part Two, Building a Better Web Page, goes deeper into Dreamweaver and explains how to gain greater control of the design of a Web page. It shows how to use more advanced features, such as tables, layers, and Cascading Style Sheets. In addition, there's get step-by-step instructions for creating advanced page layouts, as well as on how to view and work with the underlying HTML code of a page.
Part Three, Bringing Your Pages to Life, discusses adding interactivity to your site. From using forms to collect information from your site's visitors to adding complex JavaScript programs, this section guides the reader through adding animation, multimedia, and other interactive effects with ease.
Part Four, Building a Web Site, covers the big picture including managing the pages and files in a Web site, testing links and pages, and moving a site onto a Web server connected to the Internet. This section also covers features that let you work with a team of Web developers.
Part Five, Dreamweaver Power, shows how to take full advantage of such time-saving features as Libraries, Templates, and History panel automation. It also covers Dreamweaver's Extension Manager, a program that can add hundreds of new free and commercial features to the program.
Part Six, Dynamic Dreamweaver, presents a gentle introduction to the often confusing and complex world of database-driven Web sites. It discusses how to build a dynamic Web site; how to connect Dreamweaver to a database; and how to use Dreamweaver to build pages that can display database information as well as add, edit, and delete database records. The last chapter of this section covers Dreamweaver 8's powerful new XSLT tools for converting XML files (including RSS feeds) into browser-ready Web designs.
At the end of the book, two appendixes provide a list of Internet resources for additional Web design help and a menu-by-menu explanation of Dreamweaver 8. I highly recommend this addition to the Missing Manual series for anyone interested in using and thoroughly understanding the latest version of Dreamweaver. The following is the detailed table of contents:
Part I: Building a Web Page
Chapter 1. Dreamweaver 8 Guided Tour
Chapter 2. Adding Text to Your Web Pages
Chapter 3. Text Formatting
Chapter 4. Links
Chapter 5. Images
Part II: Building a Better Web Page
Chapter 7. Page Layout 101
Chapter 8. Advanced Page Layout
Chapter 9. Under the Hood: HTML
Part III: Bringing Your Pages to Life
Chapter 10. Forms
Chapter 11. Dreamweaver Behaviors
Chapter 12. Flash, Shockwave, and Other Multimedia
Part IV: Building a Web Site
Chapter 13. Introducing Site Management
Chapter 14. Testing Your Site
Chapter 15. Moving Your Site to the Internet
Part V: Dreamweaver Power
Chapter 16. Snippets and Libraries
Chapter 17. Templates
Chapter 18. Automating Dreamweaver
Chapter 19. Customizing Dreamweaver
Part VI: Dynamic Dreamweaver
Chapter 20. Getting Started with Dynamic Web Sites
Chapter 21. Adding Dynamic Data to Your Pages
Chapter 22. Web Pages that Manipulate Database Records
Chapter 23. Advanced Dynamic Site Features
Chapter 24. XML and XSLT
Part VII: Appendixes
Appendix A. Getting Help
Appendix B. Dreamweaver 8, Menu by Menu
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