Sams Teach Yourself Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 in 21 Days teaches you all the skills you need to get up and running effectively with Dreamweaver UltraDev 4. The tutorial approach aids you in learning the basics quickly and then moves on to the more advanced features and concepts. By the end of the 21 days, you will know how to create dynamic Web sites containing database interactivity, streamline ASP content, write custom validations and extend functionality with JavaScript, design enhanced navigation of the Web site, and incorporate interactivity. Written by leading trainer and developer John Ray, you will benefit from expert tips for more effective site design.
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Sams Teach Yourself Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 in 21 Days teaches you all the skills you need to get up and running effectively with Dreamweaver UltraDev 4. The tutorial approach aids you in learning the basics quickly and then moves on to the more advanced features and concepts. By the end of the 21 days, you will know how to create dynamic Web sites containing database interactivity, streamline ASP content, write custom validations and extend functionality with JavaScript, design enhanced navigation of the Web site, and incorporate interactivity. Written by leading trainer and developer John Ray, you will benefit from expert tips for more effective site design.
About the Author
John Ray is an award-winning Web application and network developer for the Ohio State University. He holds a computer engineering degree from OSU and oversees network operations for one of its colleges. There, he implemented a campus-wide database for maintaining TCP/IP information for a wide range of networked computers. For the past five years, John has used Linux exclusively for his programming efforts and has championed its use for projects inside and outside the university. He provides Linux- and UNIX-based TCP/IP programming solutions to businesses nationwide. His other publications include Que's Red Hat Installation and Configuration Handbook, Linux Maximum Security, and Special Edition Using TCP/IP, and Sams Teach Yourself Linux in 10 Minutes.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A VERY Helpful and Complete Book,
By Julie Andresen (Boston, MA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 in 21 Days (Paperback)
As an experienced Dreamweaver/HTML user with little knowledge of databases, I had planned to skim the early chapters to learn about new Dreamweaver features than dive into the "UltraDev" part, but when I began reading I found much more than the usual "how to use this program" list of features. There's a chapter on designing a website, an excellent one on database setup that includes detailed explanations of how to structure data, and a lot of practical advice for those of us who are new to dynamic web content. This author knows his stuff. Would I recommend it to someone who'd never even seen HTML? No. Would I recommend it to everyone else? -- Absolutely.
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good for a general overview.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 in 21 Days (Paperback)
If you are a backend or middleware programmer writing ASP, JSP or CFML, you probably won't like this book too much. If you are a front-end designer/developer who wants to start activating your web pages with server-side logic, this book may give you a start. The author does an adequate job of explaining how to do things with UD4, but does not dive deeply into the depth of the technologies. As an ASP developer and long-time user of Drumbeat and UltraDev, I often found myself turning to UD4's help system or the Macromedia tech library for more in-depth information. I'm happy to see publishers getting UltraDev books out on the market but I question the timing of this publishing. It was in print and on the shelves before UD4 was even shipping. This timing issue shows up in the lack of depth in the text. Additionally, the author offers too many pointed opinions on related technologies instead of taking an unbiased approach at explaining the technologies. For example, he says it is better to use Java Applets then Flash movies because you don't need to worry about plug-ins (not mentioning the need to have the Java Virtual Machine on your system :0) - but ignores the fact that the Flash plug-in is on 96% of all computers connected to the Internet.I'd suggest waiting for Joseph Lowery's next edition of the Dreamweaver Bible.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great for me!,
By "andrew@chimps.com" (A warm place, NC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 in 21 Days (Paperback)
What can I say, I liked this book!The book seems to be aimed at someone who is reasonably intelligent, has little to no web experience, and doesn't want to get their hands too dirty creating dynamic sites. I think part of the problem with the UltraDev product is that it really doesn't do that much without editing the code directly. This book could easily have broken down into an ASP programming guide, but it doesn't. The author seems to understand that NOT EVERYONE wants to use Microsoft products for their server deployment (even though ASP *is* used as the example). Personally, I'm thrilled to see something other than a book on Microsoft Access. I haven't tried MySQL in quite awhile, and, after installing it, I'm quite pleased with both the performance of the backend and the GUI on the front. For the drumbeat users, I'd say this isn't your book - when Macromedia integrated Dreamweaver into what *was* Drumbeat, they opened up web development to a whole new group of people - those who haven't ever seen or touched a development tool or language. This book is for those people. It does touch a bit on coding issues, but that's the only way anyone is ever going to do anything beyond simple lists in UltraDev.
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