Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 312 pages
- Published by: Peachpit Press September 28, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0321228561
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0321228567
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches
- Weighs: 1.1 pounds
Product Description
Are you already up to speed on the basics of Dreamweaver? Do you know how create a simple Web site, fill it with text and graphics, add navigation and links, and test/post the final product? If so, you’re ready to move beyond the basics.
Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Beyond the Basics is all about stepping up to that next level. This book expands your skill set with advanced coverage on integrating dynamic content in your Web sites. Through a series of carefully developed, step-by-step exercises and training movies, you will learn how to build a professional Web site—using source files and designs supplied on the book’s CD-ROM. Along the way, you'll find extensive coverage of all the program's new features: drag-and-drop integration of XML data feeds, improved CSS support, advanced style rendering toolbar, the industry’s first integrated Web accessibility evaluation tool for Section 508 and WCAG 2 checkpoints, and more!
About The Author
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Reader ReviewsI've had a generally good experience with the Hands on Training series, but I wish I had read a few reviews before purchasing this one. I'm exactly the type of intermediate user that this title is aimed at, and there is plenty to learn from this book. But it is chock full of proofing errors, mistakes that an intermediate or advanced user can probably suss out and compensate for, but that a relative newcomer to DW or CSS could easily be stumped by. Most unforgiveable is the fact that there are errors in the exercise files - alignment and browser display problems, as well as inclusion of files that have already had the exercise steps performed on them - so that in order to to perform the exercise, you have to start at the end, undo all the steps, then perform them. The exercise files are the main reason to buy books in this series, so problems with those files are inexcusable. Another shortcoming that intermediate users or below should be aware of: the author does a pretty poor job of giving a context and rationale for many of the procedures used in this book-another issue that makes this book a lot more work than it ought to be. I'd advise anyone thinking of buying this book to look closely at something in the O'Reilly series - maybe the CSS or Website Cookbooks.
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