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Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide
- By Lucinda Dykes
- Published Dec 21, 2005 by Peachpit Press. Part of the Visual QuickPro Guide series.
- Copyright 2006
- Dimensions: 7 X 9
- Pages: 376
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-38402-4
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-38402-7
- eBook (Adobe DRM)
- ISBN-10: 0-321-44130-3
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-44130-0
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Need to take your Macromedia Dreamweaver skills to the next level? You don't have to be a programmer to build interactivity into your site. You just need Dreamweaver 8—Macromedia's powerful new Web design and development tool—access to a Web server and an application server, and a copy of Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide.
- Takes a visual, task-based approach to guiding you through advanced topics and applying what you learn
- Works like a reference book - you look up what you need and then get straight to work
- Concise, straightforward steps and explanations offer the fastest way to learn tasks and concepts
- Companion Web site includes sample files
You'll get real-world examples and detailed illustrations of how and when features should be put to use, including what's new in Dreamweaver 8: code-editing improvements such as the coding toolbar and code collapse, drag-and-drop integration of XML data, server-side transformations with XSLT, support for PHP 5 and ColdFusion MX 7, and more!
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Excellent, well-written, well-illustrated reference, By The Dude (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide (Paperback)
This is an excellent learning tool and reference. It is written very well; the instructions are concise and clear. The book is well illustrated.I don't think this is the best book to start with if you are just learning about dynamic applications. I would suggest that you begin with Jeffrey Bardzell's Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Dynamic Applications. If you are using DW8, don't worry--it's not out of date. The tutorials in Bardzell's book will enable you to build a web site using ASP or Coldfusion. (I am using ASP). Lucinda Dyke's book, Macromedia DW 8 Advanced, will clearly explain and reinforce what you learned with Bardzell's book. With these two books, you should have no problem building a web site with dynamic applications. The book has one flaw: the lack of complete exercise files. The author refers to the Cafe Townsend tutorial that comes with Dreamweaver, but these files do not completely correspond with the exercises. There are additional files... Read more
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Another excellent book!, By
This review is from: Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide (Paperback)
I've been a fan of Peachpit Press books for a few years now. Their books are always well written and laid out to make them excellent for learning and later for reference. This book takes the somewhat confusing task of setting up a personal web server and breaks it down to a simple process.
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