Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips (Voices That Matter) [Paperback]

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

Book Description

Series: Voices That Matter | Publication Date: January 10, 2003

Get the hottest collection of cool tips and hidden secrets for the best results FAST! When it comes to Dreamweaver, time is money. This book is all about speed; showing you how to get more work done faster, while actually increasing quality. The whole concept is to help make you faster and more productive than ever with Dreamweaver. This book is nothing but sidebars, giving you the information you need in its easiest form.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Expanding on the idea that the best parts of technical books are usually the nuggetized elements--the hints, tips, and sidebars--Joseph Lowery and Andrea Buraglia have written Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips with nothing but such elements. The strategy works, freeing them from having to write--and the reader from having to read through--the largely pointless passages that might otherwise connect useful chunks of knowledge. The strategy also eliminates dwelling on basic subjects with which most readers will already be familiar, as interesting details can be pointed out without the need to drill through obvious stuff first.

A typical page of this short but fact-dense book (which is printed entirely in full color--a real advantage for a book so focused on graphic design) contains two tips. They sometimes have to do with design ideas and occasionally deal with elements of HTML, JavaScript, or stylesheet code, but more often concern little-known capabilities or user-interface details of Dreamweaver MX. For example, in a section about aligning text between two flanking images, the authors explain the exact procedure to follow and offer some warnings about how it's possible for the strategy to go awry. More useful to browsers than as a reference, you'll almost certainly expand your knowledge of Dreamweaver MX with this book. --David Wall

Topics covered: How to convert your mere competence with Dreamweaver MX into profitable efficiency.

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Get the hottest collection of cool tips and hidden secrets for the best results FAST! When it comes to Dreamweaver, time is money. This book is all about speed; showing you how to get more work done faster, while actually increasing quality. The whole concept is to help make you faster and more productive than ever with Dreamweaver. This book is nothing but sidebars, giving you the information you need in its easiest form.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: New Riders Press (January 10, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735713022
• ISBN-13: 978-0735713024
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,478,381 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.

Customer Reviews

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Designers' Life Saving Killer Tips, January 25, 2003

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P.J. "katsuey" (LANSING, KS, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips (Voices That Matter) (Paperback)

Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips should be renamed! Lowery and Buraglia put together all the tips that save time, sanity and make life easier for designers and developers. These life saving tips are wrapped up in MX Killer Tips with a refreshing touch of humor.

True, these aren't just ordinary tips on how to use Dreamweaver MX. Other books cover those. These are those little known tips about work arounds, hidden features (did you know DW includes a game?)and the various different methods available to accomplish tasks. Oh and for Mac users - the tips cover Mac methods too.

Leave it to this team of writers to not only cover the more complexed DWMX interface, but also cover cascading style sheets, browser compatibility, layouts, templates, library and other production items, application and coding tips and last but not least customizing and extensibility tips.

Best of all Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips is one of those great "take along" books because each tip is short and concise without requiring you read in any specific order. Next time you are waiting in line somewhere, whip out your copy of Killer Tips and make the wait productive!

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A collection of Gems, February 4, 2003

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

This review is from: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips (Voices That Matter) (Paperback)

New Riders has done it again. They have assembled a reference book that is written with a sense of wryness, but more importantly, the tips gets straight to point. There is at least one tip on every page and every page has a graphic that compliments the text in such a way, you can see precisely the effect at hand. Tips range from the basic simple tasks to some in-depth codes. Every level of Macromedia user would benefit from this book.

With a whole spectrum of hints, secrets and tips, they have organized, what could have been a potential mess, into a smart collection of subjects.

They also take into consideration of the Mac and Window user, by supplying graphics from each arena, to leave no one out. One aspect I appreciate, is when a tip will not work for a specific browser, they state it in the very beginning, letting you determine if you want to continue with that tip.

Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips will make an excellent addition next to your work area.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tips to die for, January 18, 2003

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"danilocelic" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips (Voices That Matter) (Paperback)

I've tech edited several books on Dreamweaver MX and I pretty much thought I knew it all, well I found out you never know it all!

This book of about 300 Dreamweaver MX tips didn't wow me at first...I flipped around and saw a bunch of things that I already knew about. But when I sat down and read through the book one tip at a time I began marking tips with post-it notes. When I was 2/3rds of the way through, I had run out of post-its and had to go back and tear previous post-its in half so I could mark the new tips I had found!

My wife's father works in organizational development, and has studied many learning techniques and he says that if you learn one thing from a book that saves you time or makes you more effective, then the experience has been a rousing success. By the end of this book, I had over 20 of these "killer tips" marked, and also had a quick refresher about a few things I knew, but didn't use much. This book experience was quite an outstanding success. I'll be keeping the book near my keyboard until I've drummed all of the tips into my brain.