Dreamweaver MX Web Development

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 608 pages
• Published by: New Riders Press
• Edition: 1st Edition July 30, 2002
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0735713081
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0735713086
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 1.4 inches
• Weighs: 2.2 pounds

Product Description
Learn how to make Dreamweaver MX work for you in real-world development situations. This book deals with the day-to-day problems developers face, and demonstrates how to use advanced features in Dreamweaver MX to address them. Written by one of the most authoritative voices in the Dreamweaver community - this book belongs on your desk, not the shelf.This book addresses issues such as templates, site architecture, CSS, and form design head on. Each chapter focuses on the problem, discusses the technology and how solutions can be implemented using Dreamweaver MX This is all followed up with a case study in every chapter. This book answers the question "so what?" by showing you how these techniques actually help you to build sites that work in the real world. The web site contains all the source code used throughout the book.

About The Author
Drew McLellan has been involved in web design and development since 1996. Starting originally as a hand-coder, Drew quickly saw the great productivity benefits that could be brought by a visual editor with the arrival of Dreamweaver 1.2. Since then, Drew has been pushing the boundaries of Dreamweaver through its solid HTML based methodology and powerful extensible architecture. With literally tens of thousands of his Dreamweaver Extensions in use around the globe, Drew has established a firm seating within the center of the online Dreamweaver community and can be found on a daily basis teaching and aiding fellow developers in Macromedia's news forums. Drew's online tutorials from his DreamweaverFever.com web site are recognized as one of the more valuable Dreamweaver resources available, due to their clear and non assuming use of language. Drew also helps out at the Web Standards Project (WaSP) as a Dreamweaver expert, focusing on the issues surrounding web standards in Macromedia's flagship HTML editor. As a Team Macromedia volunteer, Drew is a committed Dreamweaver user and enjoys nothing more than being able to share his knowledge and experience of the product with fellow developers.

Reader Reviews
First I have to say the author of this book is one of the original people who helped me learn ASP using Ultradev back in June of 2000. Drew McLellan has a great writing style, which makes it easy for beginners to learn, this book Is no different. I especially liked chapter 11 which covers advanced table design. I am nearly embarrassed to say, but I can write asp code in my head but I didn't know what the <tbody> tag was.. this chapter goes over all those freaky details it even goes over a non graphical browser such as a PDA (personal digital assistant) Chapter 17 talks about packaging extensions, which is also nice. In closing this book goes over a lot more then some of the complete technical books about server languages, and programming which never seem to give attention to the less glamour's topics, this book is worth owning. Cheers Wayne lambright