Product DescriptionThe latest version of Macromedia Dreamweaver contains a wide range of sophisticated Web development tools that aren't covered extensively in the many beginning- to intermediate-level books on the market. Dreamweaver 'X' Unleashed delves into the many new and powerful features that allows developers to create sophisticated Web applications and is full of insider tips and techniques, providing solid strategies for designing, managing, and developing sites with Dreamweaver.
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Rating: - Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Unleashed
Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Unleashed is a large, very large, and complete guide to the features in Dreamweaver 8. This book starts by giving the reader an overview about the latest features in this new version and then moves onto more details (including descriptions, how tos, and potential uses of each of these aspects) about all of the features of this program. This guide, like the Dreamweaver 8 program itself, is quite intuitive leading the reader gradually from the simple basics like designing static ... Read More
Rating: - Dreamweaver support
The book has good examples and extremely comprehensive. For reference it is a great buy. As a book to sit down and read to learn the product pass. Sign up for the on line class taught by the author.
Rating: - Pretty much of a mess
First, the good news. This is not a bad book, if you can work through the bad news, below. It shares a failing of many computer books - 1/4 of the pages are redundant. "To change the colors......" "To format the type...." Over and over again. I suppose if one is skipping through, as I often do, it makes each chapter stand on it's own. However, in "Frames", for instance, the whole chapter is on trivia - how to move them, resize them, the Obvious. Then at the end there is 1 (one) tiny section about ... Read More
Rating: - EXTRAORDINARY
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Zak Ruvalcaba's Dreamweaver 8 Unleashed is a great book for beginner and intermediate web site designers, and advanced users moving to the Dreamweaver software!
I designed my first web site in 1997 and have been designing sites since with various tools and recently started using Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver is an extraordinary tool and it contains many tools to improve the web designers work flow which significantly complicates learning how to use Dreamweaver effectively. Dreamweaver ... Read More
Rating: - Great Book, Nice Step by Step with Screen Captures
I have been using Deramweaver since release 3, but finally decided to buy a Deramweaver book. I bought this book after reading that it contained instructions on how to secure a site as well as using MS Access for dynamic asp pages.
Wow! If only I had bought this book months ago, I would have saved a lot of time.
What I really liked: nice screen captures; step by step database access; how to use extionsions including shopping cart; basic security; dynamic data access; css.... Just to name ... Read More
- Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Unleashed
- Pretty much of a mess
