Dynamic Dreamweaver MX [Paperback]

Rob Turnbull (Author), Bob Regan (Author), Omar Elbaga (Author), Rachel Andrew (Author), Alan Foley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2002 | Series: Tools of the Trade

This book gets you up to speed on using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, the new version of Macromedia's premier visual web site design tool, to produce dynamic, creative, visually stunning sites that comply with web standards and accessibility guidelines. It gets straight to the heart of the matter so you spend less time reading, and more time building your site.

Dreamweaver MX boasts some fantastic new features, including greatly improved support for XHTML and CSS standards, and tools that allow easy creation of accessible sites and effective use of Dreamweaver MX by people with disabilities. However, it doesn't stop there - Dreamweaver MX also features support for a wide range of server-side scripting languages, allowing professional dynamic web applications to be created with ease, using built-in ready-to-use chunks of code called Server Behaviors.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This book is primarily for anyone who wants to learn how to use the new advanced features of Dreamweaver MX to easily create professional static and dynamic web pages (concepts demonstrated using ASP) that are standards-compliant, and as accessible as possible. This book assumes some knowledge of HTML and web development concepts.

About the Author

Rachel Andrew is a member of the Web Standards Project's Dreamweaver Task Force, responsible for improving Dreamweaver's standards compliance and accessibility

Omar Elbaga started out as a fine artist and moved to computer graphic arts. He is also a member of Team Macromedia.

Bob Regan is the Senior Product Manager for Accessibility at Macromedia.

Rob Turnbull is also a member of Team Macromedia and a new media designer.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Glasshaus; 1st edition (July 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904151108
• ISBN-13: 978-1904151104
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,400,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I am Managing Director of UK web consultancy edgeofmyseat.com. The company specialises in web development for design agencies and start-up companies who do not have in-house developers.

I am a member of The Web Standards Project and try to take a practical approach to web standards and accessibility issues.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great concept foundations, August 16, 2002

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Mike Cuccaro (Miami, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dynamic Dreamweaver MX (Paperback)

I purchased this book because I am new to DreamWeaver and I wanted to read about some advanced topics. What I got from this book was a whole lot more. Typically, I work with 32 bit apps, and web is sort of a new area to me, so I was having a hard time deciphering all the acronyms and understanding what they are for. All I found in each book about any topic was code/syntax with no explination as to what any of this was used for. Dynamic Dreamweaver MX was the first book that showed me the whole picture starting with less advanced topics like HTML and CSS and then moving on to server side scripting with VBScript and ASP and databases. I dont think you need to even use DreamWeaver to get use from this book. If you are looking for a solid foundation in dynamic web pages from start to finish, I think this book is a great place to start.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars cutting-edge web development, simply explained, August 21, 2002

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"bl51774" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dynamic Dreamweaver MX (Paperback)

This book gets you up and running immediately with Dreamweaver MX. What it doesn't do is waste time explaining every widget of the UI (which is greatly simplified and much more intuitive, anyway). What it DOES do is explain how to create professional sites quickly, taking a thorough look at web accessiblity, CSS, usability and emerging web standards. OK, you don't need this if you're making a 'look at my holiday pictures' site. But if you want to get a competitive edge for your company or design agency, you need to understand these concepts. What I particularly like is the fact that the authors do same job as me. They understand real concerns. Rachel Andrew is on the Dreamweaver task force for the web standards project - you can't get much more knowledgeable an author than that, but she's also a professional web designer.

Highly recommended. Why don't Macromedia get these guys to write the manual for MX2?

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dynamic Dreamweaver MX, February 14, 2003

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Thomas Egan (WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dynamic Dreamweaver MX (Paperback)

I went through this book and can now design dynamic data-driven ASP pages. Since Macromedia is focused on Cold-Fusion it is a relief to have a reference that explains using DreamweaverMX with ASP. There are more hosting providers available offering ASP hosting (at a reasonable price) than offer Cold Fusion (usually adds 20 or more US dollars a month to the base cost of hosting). So it is "cheaper" to work with ASP. I found this book to be very helpful and highly recommend this to anyone who wants to move from static pages to dynamic. It covers all the basics you would need to connect to a database and build recordsets and use the behaviors in DWMX. There is tons of info on the internet also. This book taught me a lot in a short amount of time and then I found all sorts of sites on the internet that had tutorials or free downloads. After reading this book I was able to understand the things on these various websites. I could then zero-in on a particular solution to something I was doing for a client's site and get the answer either from the book or from an online source. The foundation I got from this book has enabled me to dive deeper into DWMX and take better advantage of its many tools. I had a design background (Quark, Illustrator etc) and needed to make the jump to the "dark side" - programming and handcoding. This book de-mystified those scary subjects and I am now seeing lines of code in my sleep.