Product Description

What is this book about?

This outstanding team of authors shows you how easy it can be to create and maintain dynamic, powerful Web sites using Dreamweaver MX 2004. Our hands–on tutorials guide you step by step through building three complete Web sites: a personal site, a dynamic sports site complete with user preferences, and a configurable online catalog built from reusable components. Along the way, you will learn all the skills you need to work confidently with Dreamweaver MX 2004.

You will also learn about Dreamweaver MX 2004′s built–in support for ASP, ASP.NET, JavaServer pages, and PHP, and ColdFusion MX programming languages.

What does this book cover?

In this book, you will learn how to

• Understand and manipulate the code Dreamweaver MX 2004 generates
• Create, implement, and modify Cascading Style Sheets
• Add dynamic effects with DHTML
• Apply authentication and authorization techniques to protect your sites from unauthorized users
• Store, retrieve, and display dynamic data
• Design your sites with a modular system
• Install and use Dreamweaver MX 2004 extensions

Who is this book for?

If you are new to Web development, this is the perfect guide to help you start creating attractive, functional Web sites quickly and easily using the Dreamweaver MX 2004 tool.

If you have already done some Web site programming in the past but you′re new to Dreamweaver, this book will show you how to develop your sites with the skills you already have, but in far less time and with fewer bugs using Dreamweaver MX 2004.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #461144 in Books
• Published on: 2004-02-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 792 pages

Review
“…the quality of information provided is impeccable…” (PC Utilities, June 2004)

“…hands–on tutorials take readers through creating three complete Web sites….”  (Mac World, May 2004)

Review
“…the quality of information provided is impeccable…” (PC Utilities, June 2004)

“…hands–on tutorials take readers through creating three complete Web sites….”  (Mac World, May 2004)

From the Back Cover
This outstanding team of authors shows you how easy it can be to create and maintain dynamic, powerful Web sites using Dreamweaver MX 2004.

Our hands–on tutorials guide you step by step through building three complete Web sites: a personal site, a dynamic sports site complete with user preferences, and a configurable company Web site built from reusable components. Along the way, you will learn all the skills you need to work confidently with Dreamweaver MX 2004.

You will also learn about Dreamweaver MX 2004′s built–in support for ASP, ASP.NET, JavaServer™ pages, PHP, and ColdFusion® MX programming languages.

What you will learn from this book

• This book will show you how to:
• Understand and manipulate the code Dreamweaver MX 2004 generates
• Create, implement, and modify Cascading Style Sheets
• Add dynamic effects with DHTML
• Apply authentication and authorization techniques to protect your sites from unauthorized users
• Store, retrieve, and display dynamic data
• Design your sites with a modular system
• Install and use Dreamweaver MX 2004 extensions

Who is this book for?

If you are new to Web development, this is the perfect guide to help you start creating attractive, functional Web sites quickly and easily using the Dreamweaver MX 2004 tool.

If you have already done some Web site programming in the past but you’re new to Dreamweaver, this book will show you how to develop your sites with the skills you already have, but in far less time and with fewer bugs using Dreamweaver MX 2004.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

Customer Reviews

excellent, user friendly tutorial
This book is a must for anyone wanting either to start from scratch with Dreamweaver or to progress from having learned the basics. It's divided up into 3 sections, so you can easily identify which level of skill is covered by each project and start wherever suits your own level.

I had got to a certain point with building websites [ie just completed 2 intro courses on ASP] and needed to gain a fuller understanding of how to access Dreamweaver's dynamic data area. I searched around for a while [on Amazon, of course!] and liked the look of what this book had to offer. When I got it I was more than satisfied. I concentrated most on the second section - the football project - and found the style of writing in this section and the book overall very user-friendly and easy to follow. However, if you do hit a problem with your own code at any stage, you can go to the publisher's site and download code for the projects.

I would heartily recommend this book to anyone wishing to gain a good understanding of Dreamweaver - and have fun on the way! Even more to the point, this book has helped enormously in terms of my career progress.

Teaches Dreameweaver MX + Web Design Brilliantly
When I first purchased this book I was just beginning to learn the basics of Dreamweaver MX. The great thing about this book is that it teaches you how to learn Dreamweaver MX AND Web Design at the same time.

The book is divided up into logical sections that introduce the main elements of Dreamweaver MX. The brilliant thing is that the authors have a running commentary on all of the steps and new theory that is introduced. As a result I learnt Dreamweaver MX and the theory behind effective web design too.

The book illustrates the construction of 3 increasingly complex websites moving from the very basic to a database website. There are many 'How it Works' sections where the authors describe the thinking behind the steps that they introduce. It's like having a conversation with expert web designers.

Great. Thank you Wrox. This book rocks :-)

Well structured and well written book
This is the best 'how to' book I've ever come across. The writing style is simple and very effective. The authors know what they are on about and it's a very easy book to navigate. It is a book for beginners, but you can easily skip to the sections you are interested in. A good book to have on your shelf if you are a Dreamweaver MX developer, either new or experienced.