Dreamweaver 2.0 Bible

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 1034 pages
• Published by: I D G Books Worldwide April 1999
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0764533223
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764533228
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 2 inches
• Weighs: 3.6 pounds

Product Review
This comprehensive guide to Macromedia Dreamweaver 2 for Mac and Windows serves as both an introductory aid for beginners and a useful reference tool for more experienced users. Lowery does it all: he explains features and technologies fully, throws in lots of usage tips and cross-references, and offers screen shots and step-by-step projects.

Lowery begins by explaining Dreamweaver, the current HTML standards, and new features such as dynamic styles and JavaScript behaviors. He provides a tour of the interface and helps you set your preferences, starting you off in the planning and creation of your first site. Later he goes into more detail about HTML, showing how to use Common Gateway Interface (CGI) programs, plug-ins, ActiveX, Java applets and scripts, and VBScript. (DHTML gets its own section too.) There's a series of explanations on specific Dreamweaver capabilities, from creating objects to customizing behaviors and tags.

General interest Internet topics get their due, and the book covers multimedia elements, including how to add video, audio, and Shockwave movies to your Web page. For larger-scale Web sites, the sections on Cascading Style Sheets and XML will be useful, and information on dynamic databases and e-commerce issues wrap the book up nicely.

The appendices offer primers on the HTML editors BBEdit and HomeSite--advanced HTML editors for Mac and Windows users (respectively)--and on Dreamweaver Attain, a companion Dreamweaver program that helps you create instructional Web sites. The companion CD-ROM includes demos of Macromedia's Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Flash 3; sample code used in the book; and Dreamweaver behaviors, objects, commands, style sheets, and inspectors. --Kathleen Caster

Book Description


Dreamweaver™ 2 Bible is the authoritative guide to the premiere Web site development and management tool. You get full coverage of Dreamweaver 2's page-layout capabilities, new templates and commands, and site-management functions. The book also provides detailed instruction and examples for the following: implementing CGI scripts, JavaScripts, applets and controls on your Web pages, working with frames and Cascading Style Sheets, using Dynamic HTML, XML and SMIL, and more.

The CD-ROM accompanying Dreamweaver 2 Bible features shareware, demos, and nearly 300 Dreamweaver extensions, including behaviors, objects, commands, style sheets, browser profiles, inspectors, and queries. You also get a Web resource directory and all the sample code from the book.

Reader Reviews
I have about 3-4 years of HTML experience but I wanted to improve the time it takes me to create pages, so I got into Dreamweaver. There are two important parts to Dreamweaver outside of knowing HTML, which are (1) working with the Graphical Interface (ie- where to click) and (2) working with the 'extras' such as DHTML and XML. This book does both. There are three chapters on how to add multimedia to your site with stuff like Shockwave and Flash. There are four chapters on DHTML stuff - layers, timelines, CSS. Another section which I didn't use but may be helpful to you out there is how to use Dreamweaver's web site management tools, like FTP and site map. No matter what kind of web publishing positioning you are in, if you want to know Dreamweaver, get this book.