Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Web Application Recipes [Paperback]

Joseph Lowery (Author), Eric Ott (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 4, 2003

Why reinvent the wheel every time you design a new Web site? With this book, you don't have to. By providing real-world recipes for building dynamic Web applications using Dreamweaver with ASP, ColdFusion, or PHP, this book shows you how to save time and money while focusing on the things that make your site unique. In these pages, a trio of Dreamweaver experts provides reusable recipes for User Login, Employee Lookup, Conference Room Scheduler, Survey Builder, In/Out Board, Time Card, Journal, and E-Mail Merge. Included are thorough explanations of all of Dreamweaver MX 2004's new features: dynamic cross-browser validation, improved CSS support, built-in graphics editing, secure FTP, tighter integration with other Macromedia tools, enhanced coding tools, and more. Each recipe includes discussions of application structure, database components, data binding concerns, and application-specific issues. The end result is a collection of recipes for Dreamweaver success that you'll find yourself using again and again.

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From the Back Cover

Why reinvent the wheel every time you design a new Web site? With this book, you don't have to. By providing real-world recipes for building dynamic Web applications using Dreamweaver with ASP, ColdFusion, or PHP, this book shows you how to save time and money while focusing on the things that make your site unique. In these pages, a trio of Dreamweaver experts provides reusable recipes for User Login, Employee Lookup, Conference Room Scheduler, Survey Builder, In/Out Board, Time Card, Journal, and E-Mail Merge. Included are thorough explanations of all of Dreamweaver MX 2004's new features: dynamic cross-browser validation, improved CSS support, built-in graphics editing, secure FTP, tighter integration with other Macromedia tools, enhanced coding tools, and more. Each recipe includes discussions of application structure, database components, data binding concerns, and application-specific issues. The end result is a collection of recipes for Dreamweaver success that you'll find yourself using again and again.

About the Author

Joseph Lowery's books on the Web and Web-building tools are international bestsellers, having sold more than 300,000 copies worldwide in 9 different languages. He is the author of Beyond Dreamweaver and From FrontPage to Dreamweaver from New Riders as well as the Dreamweaver MX 2004 Bible and the Fireworks MX Bible series, both from Wiley Publishing. He also co-authored the Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips series with Angela Buraglia. As a programmer, Joseph contributed two extensions to the latest release of Fireworks and many, many extensions available for Dreamweaver. He is also a consultant and trainer and has presented at Seybold in both Boston and San Francisco, Macromedia conferences in the U.S. and Europe, ThunderLizard's Web World, and Fawcette Publication's WebBuilde. As a partner in Deva Associates, Ltd., Joseph developed the Deva Tools for the Dreamweaver set of navigational extensions. With Edoardo Zubler, Joseph created FlashBang!, Flash navigation for Dreamweaver users.

Eric Ott has more than 10 years of experience as a pioneer in the Web industry. His position at Macromedia as the product manager for Dreamweaver enabled him to define the direction of this highly regarded Web-development platform from its early days. His knowledge and experience in Web design and development have given him strong insight into ways to achieve success on the Web. Eric is currently the President at WebAssist.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 648 pages
• Publisher: New Riders Press (December 4, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735713200
• ISBN-13: 978-0735713208
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 8 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,756,347 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joseph Lowery's books about the web and web-building tools are international bestsellers, having sold more than 400,000 copies worldwide in nine different languages. His most recent book is the Dreamweaver 8 Bible. Joseph is the author of the recently published CSS Hacks and Filters as well as the Dreamweaver Bible and Fireworks Bible series from Wiley Publishing. He also wrote Design and Deploy Web Sites with Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Contribute 3 from Macromedia Press. In addition to co-authoring Dreamweaver 8 Recipes and Dreamweaver MX 2004 Web Application Recipes with Eric Ott as well as the Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips series with Angela Buraglia.

As a programmer, Joseph contributed two extensions to the latest release of Fireworks and many extensions available for Dreamweaver. He has presented at Seybold in both Boston and San Francisco, Macromedia conferences in the U.S. and Europe, ThunderLizard's Web World, and KW Media Group's Mac Design Conference. Joseph is currently the Director of Marketing for WebAssist.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not so great for PHP, April 13, 2005

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NancyT (Prescott, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Web Application Recipes (Paperback)

I have had a lot of trouble getting the recipes to work in the PHP server model. After contacting the authors thru their web site, I got some corrections, but I feel like they should really have tested MUCH more thoroughly before they published the book. Its very frustrating when things don't work like they are supposed to when you are trying to learn. The authors have admitted to major errata that is not listed on their site.....they seem like nice folks, but I would not buy this book if you are planning to use PHP.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buyer Beware, April 20, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Web Application Recipes (Paperback)

I purchased this book for its Survey Recipe. I use ColdFusion for web development and found a host of errors in the code completely unrecognized by the authors. I never did get the entire recipe to work after a month of troubleshooting the errors. It took more time that was prudent to devote to debugging their code and I dropped it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sensible step-by-step tutorials for real world applications, May 2, 2004

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Kevin (Fenton, Missouri United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Web Application Recipes (Paperback)

Finally, a book with tutorials that lays it all out and what you should expect to get done in a step-by-step process. From the beginning of each tutorial (recipe) it lays out how many pages you will create and how many database/tables you'll need so you can easily understand what your getting into. Each recipe describes the scenario it conquers in detail. Interesting enough this book can handle supplying instructions for four different languages (Coldfusion, asp vb script, asp JavaScript & php) without getting confusing to the reader. I use Coldfusion and had no problem following those set of directions. The instructions are clearly delineated.

This book was able to help me complete four processes my I knew could be done, but did not know how to even begin to accomplish them. User Login, which is critical to my business. Employee Lookup, which became a nice little tool we added recently. Survey builder, which I can envision having a nice impact for my customers and finally, Mail Merge, which has made my management happy.

If you have wanted to take that plunge into interactive sites, this book is the answer. I can't wait to see what they come up for the next recipe book.