Dreamweaver MX 2004 Savvy(tm) [Paperback]

Christian Crumlish (Author), Lucinda Dykes (Author), Sybex (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0782143067 | ISBN-13: 978-0782143065 | Publication Date: April 12, 2004

Savvy - n. Practical know-how.

Dreamweaver MX 2004 Savvy is an incredibly in-depth and thorough guide to Macromedia's powerful web publishing software. This book includes detailed coverage of everything from migrating sites over from other applications to using Cascading Style Sheets to working with the five major server technologies to supporting e-commerce and blogs.

Hands-on tutorials reinforce the tricks, tips, and techniques presented. This book covers every aspect of using Dreamweaver, including:

• Planning Your Site: using the Site Definition Wizard; using templates, assets, and libraries; setting up a remote server; serving and testing your site locally; customizing and extending Dreamweaver.
• Designing Web Pages: using tables, layers, and style sheets; using image placeholders; taking advantage of Dreamweaver's latest CSS features; building a navigation interface; adding interactive behaviors.
• Building Database-Backed Web Apps: assembling forms from front to back; choosing from and using ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, ColdFusion, and PHP/MySQL server technologies; managing dynamic content with ASP and a database.
• Handing Over a Finished Project: validating and testing your site; going live; managing your site with Macromedia Contribute or tools you build yourself.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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From the Back Cover

Savvy – n. Practical know-how.

Dreamweaver MX 2004 Savvy is an incredibly in-depth and thorough guide to Macromedia's powerful web publishing software. This book includes detailed coverage of everything from migrating sites over from other applications to using Cascading Style Sheets to working with the five major server technologies to supporting e-commerce and blogs.

Hands-on tutorials reinforce the tricks, tips, and techniques presented. This book covers every aspect of using Dreamweaver, including:

Planning Your Site: using the Site Definition Wizard; using templates, assets, and libraries; setting up a remote server; serving and testing your site locally; customizing and extending Dreamweaver.

Designing Web Pages: using tables, layers, and style sheets; using image placeholders; taking advantage of Dreamweaver’s latest CSS features; building a navigation interface; adding interactive behaviors.

Building Database-Backed Web Apps: assembling forms from front to back; choosing from and using ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, ColdFusion, and PHP/MySQL server technologies; managing dynamic content with ASP and a database.

Handing Over a Finished Project: validating and testing your site; going live; managing your site with Macromedia Contribute or tools you build yourself.

About the Author

Lucinda Dykes is a web developer in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has been developing websites and writing code since 1994. She teaches Web-related classes at Santa Fe Community College, and has written extensively on XML, XML Schemas, XHTML, HTML, and Dreamweaver.

Christian Crumlish is a writer, consultant, and artist who has been designing web sites since 1994. He's a senior consultant with Groundswell and Enterpulse, developing web-enabled B2B applications for such clients as Visa and Sprint.

Product Details

• Paperback: 816 pages
• Publisher: Sybex (April 12, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782143067
• ISBN-13: 978-0782143065
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,444,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Christian Crumlish has been participating in, analyzing, designing, and drawing social interactive spaces online since 1994. These days he is the curator of the Yahoo! design pattern library, a design evangelist with the Yahoo! Developer Network, and a member of Yahoo!'s Design Council.

He is the author of the bestselling The Internet for Busy People, The Power of Many, and Designing Social Interface with Erin Malone.

He has spoken about social patterns at BarCamp Block, BayCHI, South by Southwest, the IA Summit, Ignite, and Web 2.0 Expo.

Christian has a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Princeton. He lives in Oakland with his wife Briggs, his cat Fraidy, and his electric ukulele, Evangeline.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Learning More about Dreamweaver, June 30, 2004

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Barbara Rhoades "Jackie of all Trades" (O'Fallon, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dreamweaver MX 2004 Savvy(tm) (Paperback)

DW MX 2004 Savvy is not a quick read book. You will spend days getting all the information that it contains. And, if you really want to know everything it contains, even weeks! It is not written more like a college textbook than a true tutorial. That said there is a ton of information a web designer can learn from DW MX 2004. Fat pipes CCS (Cascading Style Sheets) in detail, expanded tables, tracing image and testing links are only a few of the subjects you will learn about when reading this book. There are even whole chapters dedicated to such things as E-Commerce Sites, hand coding and creating dynamic pages, as well as PHP and XML.

A CD is included with this text and has several sections. The Bonus Chapter on the CD covers optimizing, slicing and exporting images with Fireworks, Photoshop and Illustrator. This is a nice extra but has nothing to do with the title itself. The Software section contains BNBBook - a guest book program; Contribute 2; Director MX 2004; Dreamweaver MX 2004; Fireworks MX 2004; Flash MX 2004; JRun 4: and TopStyle Pro 3.1. There are four browsers available, IE, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape and Opera and eight extensions to add to your DW program to help you create web sites with more ease.

Last but not least there are the files to go with the activities in each chapter so you can follow along with what is being discussed. I would suggest once you have read through the book that you sit down at your computer and try out some of the things the book talks about. If you have the time to delve into Dreamweaver, this book will give you a good grasp of what the program contains. Who knows, you may learn one or two things you didn't know DW could do!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dreamweaver MX 2004 Savvy, August 15, 2004

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Darren "Daz" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dreamweaver MX 2004 Savvy(tm) (Paperback)

You will spend days/weeks absorbing the abundance of information Dreamweaver MX
2004 Savvy contains, but that's what one buys a book of this nature for.
Very good book, packed with information and guidance for one to learn Dreamweaver.
(the book includes a CD by Christian Crumlish and Lucinda Dykes).
Be prepared to spend time with this book if you are serious about learning Dreamweaver. You can read the book and complete the tutorials as you go along (recommended).
The CD that comes with Dreamweaver MX 20004 Savvy contains all the files to complete the tutorials. A bonus graphics chapter on the CD covers image optimization and slicing on Fireworks, Photoshop and Illustrator, an important chapter to help you produce a web site that is efficient. The CD also contains browsers, Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera, again necessary to test your web pages in different browsers. Demo's of Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash are included on CD.
A bonus chapter on PDF file and extensions and more. After you have finished reading the book and completed the tutorials, what a great book to refer to when one gets stuck, because believe me, you will get stuck.

Very good book, heavy going at times, particularly for the raw beginner, the tutorials will get the beginner up and ready in no time.

For the advanced user this book goes deeper into Dreamweaver, there are sidebars all through - out the book that gives additional and interesting detailed information.

This book is a must, heavy book to read, but it's full of good information.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Desk reference, not-so-good training manual, October 8, 2004

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C. Cox "Connie Cox" (LA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dreamweaver MX 2004 Savvy(tm) (Paperback)

This book gives great tips and shortcuts and good memory joggers for those who are already experienced with Dreamweaver MX 2004. While it doesn't highlight the differences in MX and MX 2004, the reader can easily extract the new, improved stuff.

If you've never touched Dreamweaver and need more explicit training, stick with the TRAINING FROM THE SOURCE manual, DreamweaverMX 2004 by Khristine Annwn Page.