Synopses & Reviews
Dreamweaver MX 2004 Design Projects takes you through the process of creating four real-world case studies, enabling you to take your Dreamweaver skills to a new level. Each case study is written by a different web design professional, and features a common web site archetype taken from inception to completion. All are brimming with essential techniques to inspire and teach you.
The four different sites are as follows:
Christopher Schmitt 's entertainment/fan site project, dedicated to the band U2, covers: setting site goals; producing user profiles to define the audience, site maps, and design mockups; refining the design and producing it in Photoshop; and finally working with Dreamweaver MX 2004 to easily construct an accessible, easy-to-maintain web site.
Allan Kent 's news portal project takes you through the process of designing and building a dynamic, database-driven site with Dreamweaver MX 2004 and PHP. He looks at information architecture, building the back-end database, creating the necessary administrative tools, and finally, building a front-end that is both standards-compliant and easy to use.
Craig Grannell 's corporate site project begins with groundwork and methodology, then shows how to harness the power of CSS and Dreamweaver MX 2004 templates to rapidly get a site up and running and ensure that updates and maintenance are painless and cost-effective.
Rachel Andrew 's company intranet project walks you through the entire process of creating a company intranet using the ASP server model in Dreamweaver MX 2004. It begins with a detailed planning stage, then continues by looking at database development, providing user logins, and managing files on the server. This project utilizes built-in Server Behaviors in Dreamweaver, third-party extensions, and hand-coding.
Synopsis
Four detailed design projects teach advanced web design and development techniques relevant to Dreamweaver MX 2004. Two design projects are performed on a Mac, and two on a PC. Additionally, two of the projects focus on client-side web design techniques, while the other two focus on intensive ASP and PHP server-side site programming and development.
Synopsis
Recently updated to version MX 2004, Dreamweaver remains the world's most popular tool for website design and development--with over three million users worldwide. This new version features updated accessibility features, and supports multiple languages and technologies, such as CSS and XHTML, PHP 4 and ASP 3, MySQL and Access, Apache and IIS, and Windows and Mac operating systems.
This book contains four detailed design projects--case studies that teach advanced web design and development techniques--relevant to Dreamweaver MX 2004. Two design projects are performed on a Mac, and two on a PC--but all four projects apply to both Mac and PC users. Two of the projects focus on client-side web design techniques, while the other two focus on intensive ASP and PHP server-side site programming and development.
Synopsis
Rachel Andrew's company intranet projectwalks you through the entire process of creating a company intranet using the ASP server model in Dreamweaver MX 2004. It begins with a detailed planning stage, then continues by looking at database development, providing user logins, and managing files on the server. This project utilizes built-in Server Behaviors in Dreamweaver, third-party extensions, and hand-coding.