Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Killer Tips [Paperback]

Joseph Lowery (Author), Angela C. Buraglia (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 13, 2003

With its powerful combination of visual layout tools, application development features, and code editing support, Dreamweaver MX 2004 is sure to become your tool of choice for creating and managing Web sites. This book offers the key to all of its magic. Sure, you could wade your way through a thousand-page tome to learn the ins and outs of every Dreamweaver feature, but as a Web developer or designer focused on deadlines, details, and putting across an effective message, what you really need is somebody else to do that work for you: to dig up the time-saving tips and shortcuts that will get you to your destination fast. Lucky for you, authors Joseph Lowery and Angela C. Buraglia have done just that, drawing on their own vast Dreamweaver experience to deliver a book that's nothing but those cool sidebar tips. In the process, they cover all of Dreamweaver MX 2004's new features: built-in image-editing technology that lets you edit your images without leaving Dreamweaver, painless cross-browser development, and more.

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About the Author

Joseph Lowery is the author of Joseph Lowery's Beyond Dreamweaver and the co-author of a forthcoming book titled Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Web Application Recipes (New Riders) as well as the Dreamweaver MX Bible and the Fireworks MX Bible (both John Wiley & Sons). His books are international bestsellers, having sold more than 300,000 copies worldwide in 9 different languages. As a programmer, Joseph contributed two extensions to the latest release of Fireworks MX. He also is a consultant and trainer and has presented at Seybold in both Boston and San Francisco, Macromedia UCON in the United States and Europe, ThunderLizard's Web World, and other locations around the globe¿ranging from New Zealand to Las Vegas. In partnership with Edoardo Zubler, Joseph developed FlashBang!¿Flash navigation for Dreamweaver users.

Angela C. Buraglia used to be a makeup artist for independent film, but she needed a career that would allow her to work from home and raise her son. Although she intended only to be a web developer, life's path has led her to become that and more. She is perhaps best known as the founder of DreamweaverFAQ.com, a site dedicated to serving the Dreamweaver community and which she continues to run today with Daniel Short. In addition to this book, she is a co-author of Dreamweaver MX 2004 Magic and contributing author to the previous edition (New Riders), the lead technical editor for the Dreamweaver MX Bible (John Wiley & Sons) and contributing author to ColdFusion MX Web Application Construction Kit (Macromedia Press).

Angela's future plans are to continue developing DreamweaverFAQ.com, to build and sell Dreamweaver extensions, to give presentations at conferences, and to continue with her involvement in Cartweaver. Long gone are the days of applying makeup; now Angela applies behaviors and CSS to websites and¿most importantly¿is home with her little boy.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: New Riders Press (November 13, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735713790
• ISBN-13: 978-0735713796
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,346,939 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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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like an expert who's a phone call away, December 23, 2003

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R. Sobkoviak "DHTML mentor / former radio per... (Chicagoland, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Killer Tips (Paperback)

Web professionals have long kept a mental list (or a tidy PDA address book) of friends to call on when in need of a particular skillset or novel approach to a problem. The "Killer Tips" books are like having a library of friends right there on the book shelf. And the Dreamweaver MX 2004 edition is written by a couple of the best in the industry...and unlike the friend on the phone, these pages are available whenever you need them.

There's another audience that will really appreciate this book: the self-taught expert. If you've jumped into Dreamweaver and plodded around, making wonderful Web pages that look great and go "wicky wicky wicky", you may have missed out on learning some of the finer functionality of Dreamweaver--some of the time-saving tools that are available. Read through this book and teach yourself how to better use Dreamweaver--how to better take advantage of its possibilities.

And this volume is truly updated for the latest version of Dreamweaver, the MX 2004 edition, which has loads of new functionality and is built atop a CSS foundation. I am currently recommending this book to those who are asking me for the title of a good Dreamweaver book that isn't written like a manual.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic tips, but not a definitive book, March 4, 2005

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Brian J. Meloche "Brian Meloche" (Cleveland, OH, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Killer Tips (Paperback)

I picked up this book several months ago, and I keep coming back to it. I have been using Dreamweaver for six years, and I still picked up lots of great tips in this book. It's great as a tip resource, and one that you will keep coming back to, and I highly recommend it for its content. My two complaints about it are related to each other: The titles of the tips and the organization within the chapters.

In this book, there are tips called "Alias: The Dreamweaver Command" (for Clean Up HTML/XHTML), which don't really tell you what the tip is for. More concise tip titles describing the tip would be a lot easier to find what you are looking for. I would also like to see groups within the chapters. That also doesn't exist in this book.

That said, I highly recommend the book. Though it's not perfect, it's great!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Get the most out of Dreamweaver, August 5, 2005

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Kitzzy Aviles (Orlando, FL) - See all my reviews
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I use Dreamweaver everyday and I consider myself a power user but I still learned a few things from these books (I also own the MX version). I love shortcuts and this book is full of them. Several of the tips included I already knew but there were plenty of new ones that made the purchase well worth it. Dreamweaver is a huge program and it is impossible to learn everything about it unless you use it day and night. If you just know the basics of Dreamweaver, this book will help you unlock all those hidden features you never even know existed (including a game!). I gave this book a 4 because not all tips where useful (to me) and there were some tips that were not really Dreamweaver tips, they were more css tricks. While I appreciate the friendly, conversational tone the authors use, I find the humorous titles confusing. I thought they were amusing the first time but I quickly realized they are not helpful for finding the tips again later. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone wanting to get the most out of Dreamweaver. It is not a how-to book for beginners.