As the Web has evolved, so too have users' expectations of it--which means that today's Web developers are being forced to deal with issues that weren't even considerations not long ago. How do you develop a site that customizes itself to individual users? How can you design your site so that even nontechnical users will be able to contribute content? To answer these questions and more, you need this book. By examining your favorite Web authoring program--Dreamweaver MX 2004--in the context of databases and the technology solutions that have grown out of them, this book/CD combo will have you moving from static to dynamic sites in no time. You don't need programming experience to construct the fictional travel tour site that's the centerpiece of this volume. Just follow along with the 16 hands-on lessons (which include side-by-side ASP PHP, and ColdFusion code), and you'll be well on your way to the interactive, easy-to-maintain, and standards-compliant sites that represent the way of the future.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Good Overview
Excellent book to teach you fundamentals of working these three techologies into your web site. I would, however, recommend that you pick one and run through the whole course instead of trying to learn all three at one time.
A little more hand coding than I would prefer for this. I would like more emphasis on the panel features built into Dreamweaver. This is not a book for code warriors, it is good for people who want to make the transition from static web sites to dynamic content.
Rating: - Don't Buy This Book
The more I got into the web site design that I bought this book to help with, the more useless this book became. If you want to build a toy web site, this book *may* help. If you want to build a professional looking web site, this book is useless.
Rating: - Fantastic!
I can't recommend this book highly enough! I'd worked with static sites for years and was learning to hosh-posh sites together with some dynamic content. Many pieces are coming together now in my head thanks to this book. It offers great examples and the 'why' behind what you're doing. I wish Jeffrey Bardzell wrote a book on Flash...
Rating: - The Best Book on the Topic
This book is excellent! We highly recommend it. Jeffery Bardzell handles the matter of building a dynamic website with exact step by step examples and builds the sample Newland Tours website. This book is identical to Macromedia's "Dreamweaver MX Dynamic Applications" training from the source, except that this book has PHP references in it as well. Therefore if you have that book, you don't need this one and visa versa.
Rating: - SAkers
Nice book for beginners. However, not a book for programmers. What little code view you can see is constantly cut off so you cannot see the complete code. A lot of guess work is involved. Also, the code that is spelled out within the text does not stand out so it tends to blend into the text a little too easily. On a positive note, this book does give you a good overview of the basics of dynamic web programming.
- Don't Buy This Book
- Fantastic!
- SAkers
