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The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP
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Product Description
With over 3 million users worldwide, Adobe's Dreamweaver is the most popular web development software in the world, and it just took another step forward with CS3, the new version released in 2007. Having come a long way from its humble beginnings as a simple web design tool, CS3 allows you to rapidly put together standards compliant web sites and dynamic web sites with server-side languages and Ajax, and much more. To complement this great new application, David Powers has written the ultimate guide to itThe Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 teaches you everything you need to know about the application, from setting up your development environment environment to publishing your sites and applications on the web, and everything in between.
- Takes you through your development environment set up
- Covers everything you need to create both standards compliant web sutes, and dynamic web applications
- Teaches several real world techniques using a series of step by step tutorials
What youll learn
- How to set up your ideal development environment, using Mac OSX/Windows, Apache (and IIS on Windows,) Apache, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin
- Creating standards compliant web sites using CS3's XHTML and CSS features
- Creating dynamic web applications using CS3's PHP and Spry Ajax server behaviors
- Building several real world web site functions, such as form validation, random quote generator, search function, user management/login pages, dynamic Ajax gallery, and much more.
- Creating an interface design in Fireworks CS3 and importing it into Dreamweaver CS3.
- How use Dreamweaver CS3's XML functionality, to consume RSS feeds, and create Spry data sets
- Using includes, templates and master detail pages.
- How to publish your site after you've created it
Summary of Contents
- Chapter 1: Dreamweaver CS3Your Creative Partner
- Chapter 2: Building Dynamic Sites with Ajax and PHP
- Chapter 3: Getting the Work Environment Ready
- Chapter 4: Setting Up a PHP Site
- Chapter 5: Adding a Touch of Style
- Chapter 6: Creating a CSS Site Straight Out of the Box
- Chapter 7: Building Site Navigation with the Spry Menu Bar
- Chapter 8: Sprucing Up Content with Spry Widgets
- Chapter 9: Building Online Forms and Validating Input
- Chapter 10: Introducing the Basics of PHP
- Chapter 11: Using PHP to Process a Form
- Chapter 12: Working with PHP Includes and Templates
- Chapter 13: Setting Up MySQL and phpMyAdmin
- Chapter 14: Storing Records in a Database
- Chapter 15: Controlling Access to Your Site
- Chapter 16: Working with Multiple Tables
- Chapter 17: Searching Records and Handling Dates
- Chapter 18: Using XSLT to Display Live News Feeds and XML
- Chapter 19: Using Spry to Display XML
- Chapter 20: Getting the Best of Both Worlds with PHP and Spry
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1497 in Books
- Published on: 2007-07-22
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 784 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
David Powers is an Adobe Community Expert for Dreamweaver and author of a series of highly successful books on PHP, including PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy (friends of ED, ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-731-6) and Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8 (friends of ED, ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-569-5). As a professional writer, he has been involved in electronic media for more than 30 years, first with BBC radio and television and more recently with the Internet. His clear writing style is valued not only in the English-speaking world; several of his books have been translated into Spanish and Polish.
What started as a mild interest in computing was transformed almost overnight into a passion, when David was posted to Japan in 1987 as BBC correspondent in Tokyo. With no corporate IT department just down the hallway, he was forced to learn how to fix everything himself. When not tinkering with the innards of his computer, he was reporting for BBC TV and radio on the rise and collapse of the Japanese bubble economy. Since leaving the BBC to work independently, he has built up an online bilingual database of economic and political analysis for Japanese clients of an international consultancy.
When not pounding the keyboard writing books or dreaming of new ways of using PHP and other programming languages, David enjoys nothing better than visiting his favorite sushi restaurant. He has also translated several plays from Japanese.
Customer Reviews
This Book Saved Me!
I'm currently taking a class in PHP/MySQL and it's use in eCommerce, and this book has really helped me along the way! The author shows you the ways in which Dreamweaver can help you to reduce your development time, but still produced some really great, dynamic sites. He goes into detail on some of the code as well, which is helpful. Additionally, the author is very honest and recommends other resources for items he covers in a limited manner. If you want to learn more about connecting to a database or just using PHP for simple mailing forms, as well as some nice CSS tips, this book is for you!
The very best programming/instructional book I've ever read
I have read many books on programming. While I have gleaned some value from just about every book, the page-count-to-learning ratio hasn't been great. And on a few occasions, I hit a roadblock where I simply wasn't getting what author was telling me I should be completely proficient with at that moment...anyone else experience that?? Makes me feel like a coloring-by-the-numbers code monkey. I've gone back to some of those books once I have gained some proficiency on the topic (elsewhere) to find that those authors made things unnecessarily complex. Who knows why, but it sure pisses me off.
I give you this background, so that when I say that this book is absolutely without equal in delivering actionable, easy-to-understand content on almost every single page, that is no exaggeration. I lost count of the number of times I came up with a question, only to read the very next sentence which usually went something like this, "...you are probably wondering why this is the case. Here's why..." It was incredible! And the exercises start to ween you off of the minutia at precisely the right pace (for me, anyway). It was a great confidence builder when the author wrote, "You should be comfortable with these steps at this point..." and I totally was.
Truly excellent work by David Powers and Tom Muck (who did the technical review). And they've kept their errata/updates site up-to-date with DW CS3, which definitely came in handy as I encountered current-version discrepancies with things like Spry 1.6.
One miss was, the very last exercise did not work for me. After thoroughly reviewing the sample code, my code, etc. I submitted it as errata...waiting for a response.
Great Book
I haven't finished this book yet. I have completed the chapter on how to setup a testing server for php. So far I am very pleased with the book it has allowed me to setup a server and test my php code. This book is well worth the price just for this.
