Web Guru Guide to Dreamweaver MX 2004 [Paperback]

Marc Campbell (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0131484354 | ISBN-13: 978-0131484351 | Publication Date: February 1, 2005

This book offers a comprehensive, clear, hands-on approach to designing Web sites with Macromedia Dreamweaver. Its goal is not only to show how to use the software, including the commands to use and the procedures to follow, but also to show how to design for the Web. Covering such topics as tables, frames, layers, text, images, flash, templates, links and navigation, forms, and more, this book takes readers from planning and defining the site in Dreamweaver to designing and developing the pages to testing and troubleshooting to publishing the finished site on the Web. For Webmasters, Web Designers, Web Developers, Web Interface Designers, Information Architects, Web Content Managers, and Site Editors

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (February 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131484354
• ISBN-13: 978-0131484351
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,698,704 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Web Guru Guide to Dreamweaver MX 2004 (Paperback)

Dreamweaver is a powerful webpage layout tool. Learning it is non-trivial. But Campbell starts you from scratch, assuming no prior acquaintance with it. He shows how to quickly produce interesting page layouts.

In fact, as the book reveals, you don't even need previous exposure to the underlying HTML that actually constitutes webpages. As Campbell puts it, Dreamweaver might be considered better than Microsoft FrontPage or Adobe GoLive. It automatically makes the HTML text when you design a page within it. Then, later, you can edit that page manually, out Dreamweaver, if you need to tweak some layout details. Dreamweaver terms this Roundtrip HTML. Essentially, it has custom tags and comment tags within HTML. So it can load an existing Roundtrip HTML file that was earlier made by another instance of Dreamweaver.

However, for much of this book, you don't to go to those extremes. As mentioned above, Dreamweaver shields you from directly coding HTML. So that you can concentrate on higher level issues of layout.