Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide (Visual QuickPro Guides)

Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide (Visual QuickPro Guides)

by Lucinda Dykes (Author)

Synopsis

Need to take your Macromedia Dreamweaver skills to the next level? You don't have to be a programmer to build interactivity into your site. You just need Dreamweaver 8-Macromedia's powerful new Web design and development tool-access to a Web server and an application server, and a copy of Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide.

  • Takes a visual, task-based approach to guiding you through advanced topics and applying what you learn
  • Works like a reference book - you look up what you need and then get straight to work
  • Concise, straightforward steps and explanations offer the fastest way to learn tasks and concepts
  • Companion Web site includes sample files
This valuable reference picks up where the Visual QuickStart Guide leaves off with advanced step-by-step tutorials on working with servers, setting up database connections, using SQL, and building dynamic pages-and that's just in the first half of the book! The book's second half includes clear, concise instructions on how to build dynamic forms and dynamic tables, create a search page for your site, and control access to your site with a user log-in and password.

You'll get real-world examples and detailed illustrations of how and when features should be put to use, including what's new in Dreamweaver 8: code-editing improvements such as the coding toolbar and code collapse, drag-and-drop integration of XML data, server-side transformations with XSLT, support for PHP 5 and ColdFusion MX 7, and more!

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 376
Edition: 1
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Published: 21 Dec 2005

ISBN 10: 0321384024
ISBN 13: 9780321384027
Book Overview: Need to take your Macromedia Dreamweaver skills to the next level? You don't have to be a programmer to build interactivity into your site. You just need Dreamweaver 8-Macromedia's powerful new Web design and development tool-access to a Web server and an application server, and a copy of Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide.

  • Takes a visual, task-based approach to guiding you through advanced topics and applying what you learn
  • Works like a reference book - you look up what you need and then get straight to work
  • Concise, straightforward steps and explanations offer the fastest way to learn tasks and concepts
  • Companion Web site includes sample files
This valuable reference picks up where the Visual QuickStart Guide leaves off with advanced step-by-step tutorials on working with servers, setting up database connections, using SQL, and building dynamic pages-and that's just in the first half of the book! The book's second half includes clear, concise instructions on how to build dynamic forms and dynamic tables, create a search page for your site, and control access to your site with a user log-in and password.

You'll get real-world examples and detailed illustrations of how and when features should be put to use, including what's new in Dreamweaver 8: code-editing improvements such as the coding toolbar and code collapse, drag-and-drop integration of XML data, server-side transformations with XSLT, support for PHP 5 and ColdFusion MX 7, and more!

Author Bio
Lucinda Dykes has been developing web sites since 1994, and has used Dreamweaver since version 2.0; she continues to use Dreamweaver on an almost daily basis. She has written and contributed to a number of books about Dreamweaver, including Dreamweaver MX 2004 Savvy (Sybex), and she also teaches an online Intro to Web Design course that includes an intro to using Dreamweaver.