Dreamweaver UltraDev 4: The Complete Reference [Paperback]

Ray West (Author), Tom Allen (Author), Tom Muck (Author)

Book Description

Series: Complete Reference | Publication Date: February 7, 2001

Dreamweaver UltraDev is the eagerly anticipated, application development environment for Web sites that use ASP, JSP and Cold Fusion. UltraDev is a combination of Macromedia's Dreamweaver and Elemental software's Drumbeat technology. Dreamweaver has an installed base of more than 500,000 users. According to PCData, 69% of web developers use Dreamweaver to build web sites. UltraDev contains powerful tools for building data-driven applications. This book is a concise, single-volume reference for all the relevant technologies that a user might encounter while learning and using Dreamweaver UltraDev. For the beginner, intermediate and more advanced users, this soup to nuts reference should appeal to users of varied skill levels. The CD-ROM included contains eight multimedia tutorials showing readers how to build data-driven sites with UltraDev.

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From the Back Cover

Customize powerful Web applications quickly and cleanly with this ultra-useful development tool.

Dreamweaver UltraDev 4: The Complete Reference will teach you the easiest, most effective way to design, plan, and build a Web site, then use it to collect, distribute, and leverage information for customers and employees. Create the ideal Web site using a visual design environment that concurrently allows code editing through a logical parallel-window system. From constructing a Web site from the ground up to analyzing your information needs and developing a Web application to meet them, this book is the perfect companion to the latest of Macromedia's extremely useful tools.

• View and edit code through a second window while graphically constructing your site with objects
• Design, plan, and build powerful, information-rich Web sites for any purpose
• Create and customize Web applications with Dreamweaver's popular design interface
• Maintain an organized server with Clean Code upload filtration
• Configure scripts using ColdFusion, ASP, or JSP, depending on your server and operating system needs
• Use objects or write scripts for managing information flow to and from your database
• Connect your Web applications to legacy systems, including independent servers and e-commerce solutions
• Learn from included CD-featuring multimedia tutorials, sample code, scripts, and more

About the Author

Ray West (Orlando, FL) is the Vice President and CIO of WorkAble Solutions, Inc; an Orlando, FL based company specializing in the web-based administration of health care alliances. He is an experienced developer that has used Drumbeat to build enterprise-level web applications. Thomas Muck (Dale City, VA) is the Web Application Developer for Integram, a privately held corporation in Northern Virginia. He is responsible for the development of front- and back-end e-commerce capabilities. Tom Allen (Oriedo, FL) is a Vice President for MazePath, Inc., a software development firm with offices in Detroit, MI and Orlando, FL.

Product Details

• Paperback: 842 pages
• Publisher: Osborne Publishing (February 7, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072130172
• ISBN-13: 978-0072130171
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,181,586 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for learning UltraDev!! I Rate it 6 stars, February 21, 2001

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Raymond Fornsworth (Minneapolis) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dreamweaver UltraDev 4: The Complete Reference (Paperback)

This book is one of a kind. My reference here is to the fact that it is actually a well written technical book. Usually these books are slapped together and thrown on the shelf. This book actually taught me scads. I am still reading it, but had to go to Amazon and let everyone know that this is the book to get if you want to understand Dreamweaver UltraDev.

I am a web designer and haven't any programming background. I was a bit frightened of getting into the data driven side of the web until I got Dreamweaver UltraDev. I found UltraDev hard to learn until I found this book. I bought two other books first, but they were not written in a way that put things together for me.

From the first page this book made sense! For me one of the best things were the tutorials on the CD. They did not assume I knew anything (smart!). I went through them without a hitch and gained an understanding of how UltraDev works, then I hit the book. I am learning like crazy. I have never bought a technical book that explained things in a way that was so accessible to me. This book deserves 6 stars not 5!

Raymond Fornsworth...

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good reference but too code heavy..., March 23, 2001

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Matt Harckham (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dreamweaver UltraDev 4: The Complete Reference (Paperback)

As a newbie to UltraDev I was glad to hear of this book as I found the Macromedia documentation to be a little thin. This book filled in some of the gaps but still left questions unanswered, some pretty common questions! The SQL chapter spent too much time on specifics like formatting responses and didn't touch on common useful queries like Union Select. I was also hoping to have more instruction on the graphical interface side of UltraDev, but unfortunatly the authors like to do much of their development in the code view. This is helpful for learning about ASP, CFML, etc. but doesn't really embrace the concept of UltraDev which is marketed as a graphical development environment. Some examples appeared useful at first glance, but then as you walk through it you discover at the end it won't work on your particular configuration. Large type and repeated, unnecessary graphics make the book appear to have more content than it actual does - also you almost have to rip the back cover off to get the CD envelope out of the book! I was also hoping to learn how to use Flash in UltraDev, but this didn't get touched on either. All that being said, this is still probably the best reference out there, and the authors write in a concise, lucid style. It's saved me on more than one occasion! If you want to learn more about UltraDev though I recommend picking up a Dreamweaver 4 book as well...

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Required reading for UD developers and extensionologists, February 21, 2001

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M. Garrett "since1968" (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dreamweaver UltraDev 4: The Complete Reference (Paperback)

'Dreamweaver UltraDev 4: The Complete Reference' covers all of the technologies you need to understand in order to begin building interactive sites with UltraDev: beginning SQL, database design, web page layout, scripting, and application servers. ColdFusion, ASP, and JSP all receive equal time, and beginning developers should feel at ease with the introduction to app server and database concepts. Advanced developers will benefit from almost 200 pages (!) covering extension and object development.

My shop uses UD to build web applications and "The Complete Reference" is the best single resource I could recommend for UD developers of any skill level. This book takes a place on my shelf alongside Ben Forta's 'ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit' as a model of lucid, useful technical writing. Thanks, guys.