Using Macromedia Dreamweaver 1.2 [Paperback]

Rick Darnell (Author), Tim Webster (Author)

Book Description

Series: Using | Publication Date: April 1998

Within the newly revised Using series, this book provides a complete step by step reference to all of the uses and features of Macromedia's Dreamweaver. Coupled with strong author-created examples to show readers how to put the product to use right away, this book aims to be the most through, best-written guide to Dreamweaver. General Topics covered will include: Navigating the Dreamweaver Interface; Adding Text, Graphics, and Multimedia; Using Dreamweaver to Create Forms and Image Maps; Structuring Pages with Tables, Frames, and Layers; Adding Dynamic HTML Scripts and Interactivity with Dreamweaver; Cross-Browser Tweaking and Troubleshooting; David Siegel will write the foreword to the book.

• Provides step by step instruction for using Macromedia's Dreamweaver to design and develop professional Web sites
• Both Lynda Weinman and David Siegel have hailed Dreamweaver as one of the most powerful new tools for Web designers
• Dreamweaver is also the first visual Web development tool with strong cross-browser (both Netscape and Microsoft) support

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Targeting designers who want to learn all of the essential features of Dreamweaver 1.2, Using Macromedia Dreamweaver offers both design and technical advice. The book begins by teaching you how to add text and images to a simple Web page and how to use Dreamweaver in conjunction with an external text editor. The book covers BBEdit and HomeSite, which are text editors for Macintosh and Windows (respectively) that ship with Dreamweaver, and discusses how to work with other editors as well.

Next you learn how to beef up your site by adding Shockwave movies, Java applets, and ActiveX content; creating forms; and manipulating image maps. The book helps you explore design issues as you work with tables, frames, and layers to further refine page layout. Trickier chapters have you create and add scripts; form-validation behaviors; and animations, such as flashing objects, push pages, rollovers, and collapsible outlines. Finally, you fine-tune, upload, and manage your site. The book wraps up with lots of troubleshooting advice for features throughout Dreamweaver, as well as reference guides to BBEdit, HomeSite, HTML 4.0, cascading style sheets, and JavaScript. Keep in mind that throughout the book the authors assume you're already fairly comfortable with the newest Web technologies. There's a good mixture of both in-depth discussion of features as well as how-to advice, large screen shots, and shortcut tips. --Kathleen Caster

Product Details

• Paperback: 618 pages
• Publisher: Que Pub; 1st edition (April 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789716267
• ISBN-13: 978-0789716262
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,630,989 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book fails on three counts:, August 9, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Using Macromedia Dreamweaver 1.2 (Paperback)

This book does not at all deliver what it advertises, on three counts: first, this book does not cover the essential features of DreamWeaver; secondly, the aspects of DreamWeaver it DOES cover are not well-written (at times they are downright confusing, misleading, or blatantly incorrect); thirdly, the info in this book not directly pertaining to DreamWeaver is VERY massive -- WHY is it here at all ??!! If I want to learn about Cascading Style Sheets, WHY would I choose a book on DreamWeaver (nevermind that the info on CSS is dated, and therefore incomplete).

NO STARS !!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not much here ..., July 9, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Using Macromedia Dreamweaver 1.2 (Paperback)

There's a chapter here on creating "collapsable outlines" with DreamWeaver; but beyond that, there's REALLY not much information UNIQUELY about DreamWeaver covered in this book.

Too bad: the authors have a GREAT sense of humor ... they just don't know very much about DreamWeaver. The supplemental web site for this book reflects this, also: I dunno, I was expecting updated information about DreamWeaver that the authors "discovered" after this book's publication ... nope -- just a statement that Rick Darnell, the primary author of this book, has no intentions on working on this book any further.

Now, I admit: publishing a book/web site presents a new challenge to the author these days: providing information that can be found NOWHERE else on the web; but sadly, the authors of this book were not up to the task.

The author of "DreamWeaver Bible" (which has not even been published yet !!) ALREADY has a web site up, which provides JavaScript "behaviors" the user can "add" to DreamWeaver's files (an intriguing feature of DreamWeaver) -- files the author wrote AFTER his book went off to print ... I CHALLENGE the authors of this book to participate in this endeavor !!

If the author of DreamWeaver Bible is interested to know ... I can't WAIT until your book is published !!

1.0 out of 5 stars Too bad "DreamWeaver Bible" isn't available yet ..., August 2, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Using Macromedia Dreamweaver 1.2 (Paperback)

After purchasing this book through Amazon, I THEN read all these poor reviews, and all the favorable refernces to the upcoming "DreamWeaver Bible." I have no further thoughts about "Using DreamWeaver" than what's already here, so I'll spare the author of any further pain.