Author:David Sawyer McFarland Binding: Paperback ISBN: 0596006314 Availability:
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Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX 2004 offers a rich environment for building professional web sites, with drag-and-drop simplicity, clean HTML code, and dynamic database-driven web site creation tools. It comes with everything except perhaps the most important feature of all: a printed manual.
Enter Dreamweaver MX 2004: The Missing Manual, the book that enables both first-time and experienced web designers to bring stunning, interactive web sites to life. What sets this new edition apart is the crystal-clear writing, welcome humor, and exclusive features like these:
Live examples. With a step-by-step annotated tutorial, readers follow the construction of a state-of-the-art commercial web site, complete with Flash buttons, Cascading Style Sheets, and dynamic databases.
Tricks of the trade. The book is bursting with undocumented workarounds and shortcuts.
Design guidance. Readers can create any modern web feature, including forms, animations, pop-up windows, and more. This book lets you know which browsers, situations, and audiences are appropriate for each.
With over 500 illustrations, a handcrafted index, and the clarity of thought that has made bestsellers of every Missing Manual to date, this edition is the ultimate atlas for Dreamweaver MX 2004.
Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX 2004 is the leading software tool for the creation of Web sites and other HTML interfaces. It's remarkably capable, able to deal intelligently with everything from fonts and images to JavaScript for client-side data validation and embedded Java applets. In most cases, Dreamweaver will save you time over hand-coding--and yield better-looking pages to boot. The program's learning curve, though, isn't trivial. That's why Dreamweaver MX 2004: The Missing Manual is worth having on hand as you learn to use Dreamweaver, and worth keeping within reach as you tackle increasingly difficult Web development work.
David McFarland wrote this book, but the influence of esteemed series editor David Pogue is obvious in the careful coverage of features and frequent touches of humor (books about applications can be whangingly dull; the books in Pogue's Missing Manual series consistently manage to avoid this problem while maintaining comprehensiveness). The two men treat Dreamweaver's numerous features (and the even more numerous ways of putting them to use) cleverly, with a combination of procedures and side information that clarifies many oddball situations as well as straightforward conditions. --David Wall
Topics covered: How to create HTML (XHTML and CSS, strictly speaking) documents using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004. In addition to the basic stuff (text, images, links, and frames), the book shows you how to build forms for data submission and embed Flash movies and Java applets. There's also a lot of helpful emphasis on Dreamweaver's productivity features, like snippet libraries and file transfer utilities. A special section shows you how to do some server-side work with databases.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Excellent Guide:
I had previously stretched the limits of what I knew about Dreamweaver and programming with all other books, tutorials and research realizing that there were still a lot of holes in what I knew. I needed something to help fill in the blanks. This book did just that. Plus it gives a lot of outside the box info such as where you can get great Dreamweaver extensions which are absolutely essential to dynamic websites. It even gives instruction on using some of those extensions which you can't get anywhere else.... more info
Great How To Manual:
I don't usually write reviews for books, but on this one I had to. I took two courses on web site development both were taught on Dreamweaver. I had built about a dozen websites using both Dreamweaver MX and Dreamweaver MX 2004 but I knew that there was just so much that I didn't know about the software. Finally when I got serious about the business, after getting laid off when my plant closed, I bought this book. I have about half a dozen other books on Dreamweaver. I can throw them all away and just... more info
This book should have come with the program!!:
An amazing and thorough book! Each chapter teaches you the information in two ways: one in the standard paragraphs and illustrations, then the second at the end of each lesson with a detailed tutorial to follow in the Dreamweaver program itself. So you can choose to learn the lesson the way it best suits you. There were a couple of lessons where I skipped right to the tutorial, a couple where I didn't feel that I needed to go through the tutorial, and some where I went through both. Don't be... more info
Dreamweaver Manual:
Fantastic, really simple tutorials and suggested websites for further info. Deals with the basics to get an extemely powerful website online. There are many more aspects to web design but anyone from the total beginner to intermediate should find this book helpful.
