Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Recipes [Paperback]

Joseph Lowery (Author), Eric Ott (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0321393910 | ISBN-13: 978-0321393913 | Publication Date: November 26, 2005

Looking for timesaving ways to get frequently needed data-driven applications up and running? Look no further! In this book, you’ll find a primer for using data sources to connect your Dreamweaver pages to a database. Lowery and Ott then provide step-by-step instructions for creating 7 full-featured, professional-quality Web applications suitable for small to medium organizations. Follow the carefully constructed tutorials, and you can use them today—because all the files and code you need are available on the included CD! Better still, the explanations you’ll read will give you insight into why each step was taken so that you can extend any of the recipes to meet individualized needs.

Recipes for the following full-feature applications:

• User Login
•  Employee Lookup
• Conference Room Scheduler
• In/Out Dashboard
• Time Cards
• Journal
• Mail Merge
  

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About the Author

Joseph Lowery is THE Dreamweaver expert, a consultant, trainer and presenter at a variety of conferences worldwide. He developed the Deva Tools for Dreamweaver. He authored several Dreamweaver books, including Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Killer Tips and Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips (New Riders). Eric Ott, currently President at WebAssist, 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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 536 pages
• Publisher: Macromedia Press (November 26, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321393910
• ISBN-13: 978-0321393913
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,951,097 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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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More than I ever bargained for!, October 21, 2006

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Don Evans (Lafayette, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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I am a professional Website developer, and have been using Dreamweaver since its inception, and using PHP as long as I can remember. I chanced on this book, Dreamweaver 8 Recipes, via [...], and decided to add it to my library. Well, I have learned more from this book, regarding BOTH Dreamweaver and PHP, than from all the ten or so books on my shelf on the same topics. Joseph Lowry and Eric Ott have a unique teaching method that is just perfect for my particular learning process. The code they present is always accompanied by an explanation as to 'why' and 'what if' and 'be sure to'. Their comments are invaluable and I just can't say how much this book has improved my skills. The book includes ASP, VB, JS, CF as well as PHP. Just great!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dreamweaver 8 Recipes, January 3, 2007

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R. Sandra Stewart "Sandra" (Memphis, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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I think this is a very helpful book, would purchase again. Very user friendly for either beginners or advanced.