What the book covers: This title will provide extensive coverage on the Dreamweaver workspace, laying out pages, creating basic pages, adding content to pages, working with advanced design elements, developing Web applications, working with databases, making pages dynamic, adding Dreamweaver extras, using Dreamweaver with Macromedia Contribute, and much more. Nine minibooks included are: (1) The Dreamweaver Workspace (2) Basic Pages (3) Advanced Design (4) Dreamweaver Extras (5) Developing Web Applications (6) Databases (7) Making Pages Dynamic (8) Developing Applications (9) Using Dreamweaver with Contribute. Series features: Information presented in the straightforward but fun language that has defined the Dummies series for more than a dozen years.
* Nine minibooks filling nearly 800 pages take Web designers beyond Dreamweaver basics, giving them the know-how and hands-on techniques they need to create state-of-the-art Web sites
* Minibooks cover Dreamweaver basics, laying out pages, adding content to pages, working with page code, developing Web applications, databases, making pages dynamic, developing applications rapidly, and using Dreamweaver with Contribute
* Dreamweaver owns about 80 percent of the professional Web development market and has approximately 2.5 million users
* A supersized Dummies reference on a complex yet perennially popular topic-Dreamweaver For Dummies has sold more than 190,000 copies across five editions
Sue Jenkinsis a Web and graphic designer, illustrator, writer, and teacher. With nearly ten years experience, she provides design services to small and medium-sized businesses, entrepreneurs, consultants, writers, and artists through her company, Luckychair (www.luckychair.com). She ran her own greeting card company from 2002–2005, and continues to license these and other illustrations to manufacturers around the world. Sue is a contributing writer of technical articles for the online e-zine TechTrax. She also teaches courses in Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator at Noble Desktop. Sue lives with her husband and son in New York City.
Michele Davisis a published author and technical writer. She has written trade books for O’Reilly & Associates, Sybex, and Simon & Schuster. Michele has 18 years experience in the technical arena; she breaks down highly technical concepts for end users from an instructional design perspective. Michele has taught technical and creative non-fiction courses at the graduate level and creates custom Web sites. She can be found on the Web at www.krautgrrl.com. Michele lives in Minneapolis with her husband and three children.
Jon Phillips,nicknamed ubergeek, is an open-source programmer with a background in UNIX and databases as well as ERP systems, including Oracle, SQL Server, PHP, and MySQL. Jon creates back-end Web site code including blogs, auction, and Web-based stores. Jon has been programming for 12 years and enjoys building and bug fixing computers on the side. He’s co-authored trade books for Sybex and O’Reilly & Associates. Jon lives in Minneapolis with his wife and three children. He promotes his business at www.krautboy.com.
Introduction.
Book I: Getting Started.
Chapter 1: Cruising Around the Dreamweaver 8 Workspace.
Chapter 2: Planning and Designing Your Site.
Chapter 3: Creating and Managing Sites.
Book II: Mastering the Basics.
Chapter 1: Creating Documents.
Chapter 2: Working with Text.
Chapter 3: Inserting Graphics.
Chapter 4: Making Links with Text and Images.
Chapter 5: Adding Flash, Movies, Sound, and More.
Chapter 6: Creating Tables for Layout.
Chapter 7: Building Fabulous Forms.
Book III: Working Like the Pros.
Chapter 1: Looking Good with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
Chapter 2: Building Sites with Templates.
Chapter 3: Using Library Items and Server-Side Includes.
Chapter 4: Creating Code Snippets and History Panel Commands.
Chapter 5: Integrating Dreamweaver with Fireworks.
Book IV: Energizing Your Site.
Chapter 1: Working with Layers.
Chapter 2: Jazzing Up Pages with JavaScript Behaviors.
Chapter 3: Designing Pages with Frames.
Chapter 4: Introducing Timelines.
Chapter 5: Making Your Pages XHTML Compliant.
Book V: Publishing Your Site.
Chapter 1: Using Reports to Test Your Site before Publishing.
Chapter 2: Keeping Your Code Clean.
Chapter 3: Preparing to Publish Your Files.
Chapter 4: Publishing Your Web Pages.
Book VI: Working Collaboratively.
Chapter 1: Working Efficiently with a Team.
Chapter 2: Setting Up and Connecting to a Contribute Site.
Chapter 3: Managing a Contribute Site.
Book VII: Building Web Applications.
Chapter 1: Building Web Applications.
Chapter 2: Configuring Database Connections for PHP.
Chapter 3: Configuring ASP Database Connections.
Chapter 4: Configuring ASP.NET Database Connections.
Chapter 5: Configuring JSP Database Connections.
Chapter 6: Configuring ColdFusion Database Connections.
Chapter 7: Dealing with Database Issues.
Book VIII: Making Pages Dynamic.
Chapter 1: Preparing Dynamic Content Sources.
Chapter 2: Using Dynamic Content in Your Web Pages.
Chapter 3: Previewing and Testing Your Dynamic Pages.
Chapter 4: Building Dynamic Forms.
Chapter 5: Advanced Dynamic Data Presentation.
Book IX: Developing Applications Rapidly.
Chapter 1: Building Master and Detail Pages.
Chapter 2: Creating Search and Results Pages.
Chapter 3: Building Record Insert Pages.
Chapter 4: Developing Record Update and Delete Pages.
Chapter 5: Using Advanced Data Manipulation Tools.
Chapter 6: Restricting Site Access.
Index.
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