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With over 3 million users worldwide, Adobe's Dreamweaver is the most popular web development software in the world, and it just took another step forward with CS3, the new version released in 2007. Having come a long way from its humble beginnings as a simple web design tool, CS3 allows you to rapidly put together standards-compliant web sites and dynamic web sites with server-side languages and Ajax, and much more.
To complement this great new application, David Powers has written the ultimate guide to it. The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP teaches you everything you need to know about the application, from setting up your development environment environment to publishing your sites and applications on the web, and everything in between.
- Takes you through your development environment set up
- Covers everything you need to create both standards compliant web sutes, and dynamic web applications
- Teaches several real world techniques using a series of step by step tutorials
List of contents
Dreamweaver CS3-Your Creative Partner.- Building Dynamic Sites with Ajax and PHP.- Getting the Work Environment Ready.- Setting Up a PHP Site.- Adding a Touch of Style.- Creating a CSS Site Straight Out of the Box.- Building Site Navigation with the Spry Menu Bar.- Sprucing Up Content with Spry Widgets.- Building Online Forms and Validating Input.- Introducing the Basics of PHP.- Using PHP to Process a Form.- Working with PHP Includes and Templates.- Setting up MYSQL and phpMyAdmin.- Storing Records in a Database.- Controlling Access to Your Site.- Working with Multiple Tables.- Searching Records and Handling Dates.- Using XSLT to Display Live News Feeds and XML.- Using Spry to Display XML.- Getting the Best of Both Worlds with PHP and Spry.
Summary
Dreamweaver is a huge selling product with over 3 million users worldwide, and the new version, Dreamweaver CS3, promises to be just as popular, with new features such as Ajax support. The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP is written by best selling Dreamweaver author David Powers. He presents a strictly practical, real world series of tutorials to teach aspiring and existing Dreamweaver users how to do everything they could possibly want to do in terms of CSS, PHP (bar far the most popular server-side language Dreamweaver supports, and the only one that is really used a great deal,) and Ajax web sites, from beginner to advanced topics.
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From the reviews:
"The scope of this book is an ambitious one: to provide an intermediate-level guide to the entire new functionality of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 … via cascading style sheets (CSS) and dynamic interaction with Ajax. … this work is best suited for those Dreamweaver developers who know something about PHP, Ajax, and MySQL, but are looking to extend their skill set to use them together. … Powers provides a logical, well-written book that well serve intermediate developers who are looking to expand their skills … ." (Pascal V. Calarco, ACM Computing Reviews, October, 2008)
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From the reviews:
"The scope of this book is an ambitious one: to provide an intermediate-level guide to the entire new functionality of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 ... via cascading style sheets (CSS) and dynamic interaction with Ajax. ... this work is best suited for those Dreamweaver developers who know something about PHP, Ajax, and MySQL, but are looking to extend their skill set to use them together. ... Powers provides a logical, well-written book that well serve intermediate developers who are looking to expand their skills ... ." (Pascal V. Calarco, ACM Computing Reviews, October, 2008)
