Product Description

Learn to create dynamic, data-driven Web sites using the exciting enhancements in the Dreamweaver CS3 version. You get a thorough understanding of the basics and then progress to learning how to produce pages with pizzazz, connect to live databases, integrate with Flash and Photoshop, use advanced technologies like Spry and Ajax, incorporate Flash, Shockwave, QuickTime, and WAV files, import Photoshop files directly into Dreamweaver, and enjoy Web success.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27115 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-21
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1152 pages

From the Back Cover
Learn to create dynamic, data-driven Web sites—easily

If you're among the two and a half million Web professionals who already use Dreamweaver, here's your ticket to the exciting enhancements in the CS3 version. If you're just breaking into Web development, you'll get a thorough understanding of the basics. Either way, you'll learn to produce pages with pizzazz, connect to live databases, integrate with Flash® and Photoshop®, use advanced technologies like Spry and Ajax, and enjoy Web success.

• Create multifaceted Web pages that draw from data sources

• Learn the fundamentals of static and dynamic pages

• Explore the Spry framework and tools

• Add Flash, Shockwave®, QuickTime®, and WAV files

• Use Dreamweaver in site management

• Build custom objects to extend Dreamweaver

Import Photoshop files directly into Dreamweaver

Highlight CSS tags at design time

Integrate your pages with live data

What's on the CD-ROM?

• Bonus Chapter 1: Creating and Using Objects

• Bonus Chapter 2: Creating a Behavior

• Interactive simulations from master trainer Mark Fletcher that guide you through every step of each Dreamweaver Technique

• Practice files for all the Dreamweaver techniques

• Additional Dreamweaver server behaviors, objects, commands, and other extensions

• Other relevant code from the book

System Requirements: Please see About the CD-ROM Appendix for details and complete system requirements

About the Author
Joseph Lowery has been writing about computers and new technology since 1981. He is the author of the previous editions of Dreamweaver Bible and Fireworks Bible as well as the recent publishing of CSS Hacks and Filters (all published by Wiley). He is also the author of Joseph Lowerys Beyond Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver MX 2004 Killer Tips (with Angela Buraglia), and Dreamweaver MX 2004 Web Application Recipes and Dreamweaver CS3 Recipes (with Eric Ott), all published by New Riders. He has also written books on HTML and using the Internet for business. His books are international bestsellers, having sold more than 400,000 copies worldwide in eleven different languages. Joe is also a consultant and trainer and has presented at Seybold in both Boston and San Francisco, Adobe conferences in the U.S. and Europe, and at ThunderLizard’s Web Design World. He is currently the Vice President of Marketing for WebAssist, the leading provider of Adobe extensions.

Customer Reviews

A Little Dry
Aside from the obvious, that it has nothing whatsoever to do with THE Bible, it's quite dry and un-informing. I'm unable to get much from the book; other than "history of the web" type stuff. Buy at your own risk.

A good reference book, but perhaps not the one to choose to learn with.
Just speaking from one who does not build websites for a living. I purchased Dreamweaver to build our own company websites. We have used primarily Frontpage in the past for our basic websites, despite it's obvious limitations. So obviously there is a steep learning curve towards learning Dreamweaver. We are fairly competent with computers, but the biggest problem we have with this book is that it is so wordy. This book is over one thousand pages long, and the first one hundred pages do little more than describe Dreamweaver's features and attributes, without getting into any of the meat of how to actually run the software. Time is a limited commodity for us, and we don't need to wade through a thousand page book to find our answers.
I would agree that this is an excellent reference book, and I would recomend purchasing it to improve your web design capabilities, once you're already familiar with Dreamweaver. But I would prefer to see the big picture first. That is, I would rather learn the basics first, on how to run Dreamweaver, then learn about all of it's intricacies later.
So I would recomend this book as the second Dreamweaver book to read, if you are new to Dreamweaver. The first one should be more basic and more to the point.

Complete.
This book, while daunting in size, is very accessible and contains everything you need to know about Dreamweaver CS3. I'm a designer, comfortable coding CSS/HTML but pretty green when it comes to things like XML and Spry. Other Dreamweaver books I looked at didn't have anything I didn't already know...so I knew they were lacking in a big way. This book takes you through every nook and cranny and when compared to others its astounding how glaring their shortcomings are and much more is in here. While you probably won't lay in bed reading this giant book it is by far the best and only book to consider for Dreamweaver. For me its serving as a springboard to learn other technologies/languages, so I'd have to say you'll learn a lot even beyond Dreamweaver. Covers the subject matter thoroughly and teaches you so much more...they didn't have to bother writing any other Dreamweaver books. This is the one.