Build Your Own Standards Compliant Website Using Dreamweaver 8 (Build Your Own)

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Build Your Own Standards Compliant Website with Dreamweaver 8 is written for any user of Dreamweaver who wants to create standards compliant, usable and fully accessible websites.

By applying Web Standards and best-practices, readers will learn to create fast-loading, easy-to-maintain and cross-browser compatible Websites.

This book focuses on using XHTML & semantic markup, CSS Layouts, and accessibility guidelines to show users how to make the most of Dreamweaver 8.

Customer Reviews:

Easy to use.......2007-01-07

You don't have to be a professional programmer to produce an accessible, acceptable web site using Dreamweaver 8: all that's required is a working knowledge of the program and Rachel Andrew's BUILD YOUR OWN STANDARDS COMPLIANT WEBSITE USING DREAMWEAVER 8. It's a step-by-step guide which begins with setting preferences and proceeds through the basics of accessibility, navigation links and styling, working with Dreamweaver's CSS panel, and more. One might anticipate a complex guide - but BUILD YOUR OWN STANDARDS COMPLIANT WEBSITE is easy to use, whether you're reading cover-to-cover or hopping about for a quick fix to a problem.

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Dreamweaver 8 .......2006-11-10

Since I've purchased other books by Rachel Andrew and have concluded that they are excellent 'help' books for beginners to advanced site builders, I thought I'd try this one out also. It's nice because it guides you pertinent to web standards using CSS, Xhtml and more within Dreamweaver.
The book is easy to understand and guides you step by step.

Missing an important chapter or two.......2006-10-06

This book may be helpful if you are working alone to design a small site. If you want to know how to set up and use a test server, download to test server vs. remote server, use check-in/check-out, use cloaking (re Dreamweaver, not the same as cloaking re search engines), or almost any other Dreamweaver 8 site management functionality... well, that was the information I needed and it isn't in this book.

THE DREAMWEAVER CODE.......2006-02-25

Are you a Dreamweaver novice or a more experienced user? If you are, then this book is for you! Author Rachel Andrew, has written an outstanding book that will help you expand your knowledge and learn how to use Dreamweaver 8 to create sites that are accessible, standards compliant, and use CSS for layout.

Andrew, begins by taking a look at Web standards: what they are, why they're important, and who they're designed to help. Then, she shows you how to develop your site--thinking specifically about the layout and the structure of the site, and setting up your tools so you're ready to get started. The author continues by discussing XHTML, clarifying how it differs from HTML, and how you can work with it in Dreamweaver 8. In addition, she walks you through the process of using Dreamweaver 8 to create a document that validates as XHTML. The author also explores Dreamweaver 8's Cascading Style Sheets tools. Then, the author shows you how to use Dreamweaver 8's powerful CSS tools to create a style sheet for your document. Next, she provides some more information on the use of tools to help you create accessible Websites, discusses the process of validating documents for accessibility, and considers the ways in which users' differing needs can be met through good design. Next, the author shows you how to create a page design that you can use as a template for any internal pages that are developed for the project. Then, she briefly describes how to create a form using a variety of the accessibility features that Dreamweaver 8 offers. Finally, she looks at the ways in which you can utilize the power of CSS to provide visitors a variety of alternate style sheets with which to use the site.

After reading this excellent book, you'll learn how to use Dreamweaver 8 the right way. In other words, this book will help you do all of this without compromising accessibility or standards compliance.

Using Standards Instead of Hacks.......2006-01-31

It's refreshing to construct a site using Dreamweaver and standards as they are, without an equal amount of hacks and tricks to kludge the site into cross browser compatibility. Rachel Andrew's straightforward and step by step guide shows how to do it right and in the right order.

Rachel spends about the first third of the book getting me up to speed on Web Standards and XHTML, and rightly so. This part of the book gives me the "whys" behind my choices of foundational coding including "strict" or "transitional" and "ems" or "points". It is one of the clearest and easiest to read treatment of Standards, Accessibility, and XHTML that I've ever seen.

The project site for the tutorial is straightforward and easy to use. It included common elements like header, navigation, and main content area so the concepts are easy to apply right away to my real world projects.

I enjoyed following Rachel's suggested workflow. Create a semantic document that includes all the features my site will need. Then organize it into content blocks that make sense. Then position them. My workflow routine has been the other way 'round: make the structure, then plug in the content. It seems like a content to design workflow will help avoid distracting elements that could be unnecessary.

Expert css coders may find this book too basic, but it's a must have for css or Dreamweaver 8 beginners and those transitioning from using tables for layouts. This book helped me get my ducks in a row and my priorities straight.

Rachel is not totally reliant on Dreamweaver 8 as a stand-alone to get my job done. When a third party application makes sense, she has no qualms about integrating it the right way. Even though she does not take me all the way through making a working form, she got me a lot further than other tutorial books. She even directed me to samples of Perl/CGI, ASP, and PHP scripts that come with directions on how to implement them on my own server. Offering specific resources for further study is a great way to soften the blow of "...is outside the scope of this book."

The chapter on alternate style sheets is a keeper also. She got me to think through the different user needs as well as media types and create specific css documents to address them.

Build Your Own Standards Compliant Website is a tutorial book that got me engaged enough to stop and think about web design from several different levels: workflow, coding, use of third party applications, and scripts. It did a great job of educating me for confident use of css and Dreamweaver 8.

Special Edition Using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX

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Top rate book w/good advice
Cogently addresses issues in Web design and development

Special Edition Using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
Molly E. Holzschlag , and Jennifer Ackerman Kettell
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ASIN: 0789727072

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This book is primarily intended to assist growing professionals in gaining a fantastic working knowledge of Dreamweaver and the issues in design and markup that are affecting the changing way in which they work. This book addresses issues in Web design and development from an extremely contemporary standpoint. While the information contained within is suitable for beginners, the real emphasis is to assist the intermediate designer interested in learning how to work with Dreamweaver to achieve best practices within the design and development industry. The book provides plenty of tips and real-world advice from people working in the trenches, and lays a solid groundwork so that readers have a firm grasp of the basics before moving to more advanced functionality.

Customer Reviews:

Top rate book w/good advice.......2003-03-31

The title of this book is not the only thing that is covered (i.e. Dreamweaver MX). The authors also discuss HTML, standards, best practices, Mac vs. Windows browsers, etc, while introducing the features of Dreamweaver. This is important as many books just provide a point-and-click cookbook w/little relevant dicsussion as to "why" something is done a certain way.

There are also useful references to resources on the internet and good tips. The writing style is easy to follow and there are many good illustrations. This is not only a fantastic book for Dreamweaver MX, but a great web development book as well.

I buy a ton of tech books every year and don't give top reviews easily. This book definitely earns its 5 *'s.

Cogently addresses issues in Web design and development.......2003-03-06

Most professional Web designers and developers occupy a large portion of their work in a visual design environments such as Dreamweaver, and use the tools within Dreamweaver to hand-code at least portions of their own markup. The positioning and scope of Special Edition Using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX is primarily to assist these web masters in gaining a professional level of competency through a working knowledge of Dreamweaver and the issues in design and markup that are affecting the changing way in which they work. Special Edition Using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX cogently addresses issues in Web design and development from an extremely contemporary standpoint. Suitable for beginners, the primary emphasis in Special Edition Using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX is to assist the intermediate designer interested in learning how to work with Dreamweaver to achieve best practices within the design and development industry. User Level: Intermediate, 720 pages

Special Edition Using Macromedia Studio MX 2004

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Not a recommended book
Using Macromedia Studio MX 2004
Deep Flash & Dreamweaver, shallow Freehand & Fireworks

Special Edition Using Macromedia Studio MX 2004
Michael Hurwicz
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ASIN: 0789730421

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Special Edition Using Macromedia Studio MX is the ultimate comprehensive reference book for users of Macromedia's suite of Web design products.

Written by some of the leading experts in the Macromedia realm, the book covers everything the most demanding Studio MX user will need to know to use the products in the suite to create dynamic, visually stunning Web sites and applications.

The book includes in-depth coverage of building data-enabled Web sites with Dreamweaver MX, creating Flash animations to enhance a site's interface, working with ActionScript, editing graphics with Fireworks, and drawing vector art with Freehand.

Additionally, the complete text is available on the accompanying CD-ROM, along with in-depth coverage of all four products in the Studio suite. The reader has at their fingertips the equivalent of four complete reference books -- all for the price of one.

Customer Reviews:

Not a recommended book.......2005-07-07

If you want to know what features Macromedia Studio MX 2004 has, this book has that information for you. But, if you want to learn "using" this tool, it's not a good choice. In many sections, it just mentions that the tool has so and so features and it doesn't instruct you how to use them. The materials that can be free downloaded from Macromedia website are much more helpful than this commercial book. I gave it up by reselling it for much cheaper - I'm still happy with it. Thanks!

Using Macromedia Studio MX 2004.......2005-04-19

I read a lousy review on this site, and I am glad that I ordered this book in spite of the review, because if anyone has ever pulled his or her hair out over the pen tool in a vector graphics program, he or she knows to merely turn to the pages discussing this tool to find out how detailed and discernable the instructions are. This book is excellent. Too bad the bad rap from a disgruntled skim reader will prevent many others from benefitting from this very comprehensive and in-depth book.

Deep Flash & Dreamweaver, shallow Freehand & Fireworks.......2004-09-23

This book touts itself as being "the only MX book you'll ever need." So why was there such shallow coverage for Freehand and Fireworks?

I bought this book from the bookstore and in glancing through it, it appeared it had everything I would need. And for web page stuff, it does - above & beyond. However, when it came time for me to work on a new logo, and of course along with that comes brochures, business cards, letterhead, etc. I then discovered that the book doesn't even touch on these subjects, nor does it do a decent job explaining how to use the "Xtra" tools for working with paths (among many other things) it just tells what they are and what they do (by name). The internal Help applet does a better job than this book does! There's a tutorial on how on the author designed a logo, but that's pretty much where the topic on Freehand ends. Desktop publishing & prepress people beware!

Nevertheless, it's a "good book" overall.. Three stars.. And I appreciated the depth in terms of Actionscript, XML, and ColdFusion architecture and the CFML / SQL coding primer.

Introduction to Web Design Using Dreamweaver®, Student Edition

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ASIN: 0078729890

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Introduction to Web Design Using Dreamweaver® provides students with step-by-step activities that teach the skills needed to plan and create Web sites. For use with Dreamweaver® MX, MX 2004, and 8. Includes information about Web design principles and activities that involve Flash® and Fireworks® application skills.

Create Web Pages: Using Dreamweaver 4 and Fireworks 4

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Create Web Pages: Using Dreamweaver 4 and Fireworks 4
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Dreamweaver 4 is the HTML editor and you can create web graphics using Fireworks 4. Both applications can be integrated together. You will enjoy creating your own images, animated graphics, and rollover images in Fireworks 4 to insert into Dreamweaver 4. You can learn to create easy web pages using the same applications as professional web designers. This book is suitable for persons who are new to Dreamweaver 4 and Fireworks 4, HTML novices, and intermediate users. You will learn fast from the illustration in this book. This book consists of three sections: 1) Web management: teach how to manage a web site and pages. 2) Dreamweaver 4: teach how to design and create web pages, layouts, layers, tables, and frames. You will learn to operate menu, functions, and tools. 3) Fireworks 4: teach how to create graphics, animated graphics, and rollover images using tools in the Fireworks 4 application.

Digital Design Curriculum Guide: Foundations of Web Design : Using Fireworks MX 2004, Dreamweaver MX 2004, and Macromedia Flash MX 2004

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Digital Design Curriculum Guide: Foundations of Web Design : Using Fireworks MX 2004, Dreamweaver MX 2004, and Macromedia Flash MX 2004
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Introduction to Web Design Using Dreamweaver®, Student Workbook

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Special Edition Using Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev 4

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Amazing Book on DW- Ultradev!!
A good book to get started with Dreamweaver Ultradev
One star because fractional stars are not an option

Special Edition Using Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev 4
NIIT NIIT , Priya Muralimohan , Kalawati Shankar , Mridula Varghese , and NIIT
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Special Edition Using Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 is the ideal reference to help readers understand the fundamentals of Web application development. Starting with step-by-step instruction on basic database fundamentals, the book progresses through more advanced concepts such as programming issues and extensions, guiding readers in developing efficient Web applications with minimal effort. This book provides beginning and more experienced readers alike with all of the information necessary to develop robust Web applications.

Customer Reviews:

Amazing Book on DW- Ultradev!!.......2001-11-09

This is like a book written for me... a person who doesnt know either DW or Ultradev!! Its pretty well organized and I specially liked the part where they have taken pains to introduce me to the Server technologies.. JSP, Coldfusion and stuff...

Chapter 7 upwards.. the coverage is pretty good to even get a person like me comfortable with all the features. What they call "Activity Corner" is pretty good and helped me practise all the concepts.

Wanna learn DW and Ultradev ... this is the book for u!!!

A good book to get started with Dreamweaver Ultradev.......2001-11-09

The best part of this book - all those activities you do in the Activity corner. There is enough to get started with Dreamweaver for people like me (my first shot at Dreamweaver !!). I thought the UltraDev bit was just right for a beginner. Does give a good amt of stuff on ASP, JSP et al. If you are into designing Web pages, then this book is for you.

One star because fractional stars are not an option.......2001-10-20

UltraDev (Hah!), six degrees of separation less than useless. Que press should be embarrassed.

We've all gotten stuck with disappointing reference books (I even have a couple UltraDev's that fall into that), but this one's actually got me grumpy. When I'm done here, this book is back into the mail. Que (and they should know better) shamelessly tacked "UltraDev" onto the end of a Dreamweaver publication to ride the UltraDev wave, like we won't notice. Blatant manipulation.

Check the imbalance here: this book is 25 chapters, only 7 of which pretend any kind of detail about UltraDev.

Two of the 25 chapters belabor-r-r-r-r extensions (as in bor-r-r-r-ring, ir-r-r-relevant, pretty much useless). No help to the core mission, using UltraDev. Of the 5 remaining chapters, one is all ODBC and another all data sources. Necessary information, yes, but the treatment is unfortunately perfunctory. If you think you're going to get a JSP hookup going, just try it. That leaves 3 chapters, all of 69 pages (repeat for emphasis sixty-nine pages) of 558, to explain how to tap databases from a dynamic site.

Won't happen. UltraDev is too complex (sophisticated, robust) for that. There is too much to know, to be explained, to be shown that this book doesn't.

And the 2002 copyright is ironically annoying, like this book is ever going to be current.

For a useful introduction to ODBC connectivity and data sources, and dynamic pages and databases try Dreamweaver UltraDev4: Training from the Source, Macromedia Press. Plan on running through the tutorials a couple times.

For a better hash on extensions, try Building Dreamweaver 4 and Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 Extensions, Osborne.

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Targeting designers who want to learn all of the essential features of Dreamweaver 1.2, Using Macromedia Dreamweaver offers both design and technical advice. The book begins by teaching you how to add text and images to a simple Web page and how to use Dreamweaver in conjunction with an external text editor. The book covers BBEdit and HomeSite, which are text editors for Macintosh and Windows (respectively) that ship with Dreamweaver, and discusses how to work with other editors as well.

Next you learn how to beef up your site by adding Shockwave movies, Java applets, and ActiveX content; creating forms; and manipulating image maps. The book helps you explore design issues as you work with tables, frames, and layers to further refine page layout. Trickier chapters have you create and add scripts; form-validation behaviors; and animations, such as flashing objects, push pages, rollovers, and collapsible outlines. Finally, you fine-tune, upload, and manage your site. The book wraps up with lots of troubleshooting advice for features throughout Dreamweaver, as well as reference guides to BBEdit, HomeSite, HTML 4.0, cascading style sheets, and JavaScript. Keep in mind that throughout the book the authors assume you're already fairly comfortable with the newest Web technologies. There's a good mixture of both in-depth discussion of features as well as how-to advice, large screen shots, and shortcut tips. --Kathleen Caster

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Within the newly revised Using series, this book provides a complete step by step reference to all of the uses and features of Macromedia's Dreamweaver. Coupled with strong author-created examples to show readers how to put the product to use right away, this book aims to be the most through, best-written guide to Dreamweaver. General Topics covered will include: Navigating the Dreamweaver Interface; Adding Text, Graphics, and Multimedia; Using Dreamweaver to Create Forms and Image Maps; Structuring Pages with Tables, Frames, and Layers; Adding Dynamic HTML Scripts and Interactivity with Dreamweaver; Cross-Browser Tweaking and Troubleshooting; David Siegel will write the foreword to the book.

Provides step by step instruction for using Macromedia's Dreamweaver to design and develop professional Web sites
Both Lynda Weinman and David Siegel have hailed Dreamweaver as one of the most powerful new tools for Web designers
Dreamweaver is also the first visual Web development tool with strong cross-browser (both Netscape and Microsoft) support

Customer Reviews:

This book fails on three counts:.......1998-08-10

This book does not at all deliver what it advertises, on three counts: first, this book does not cover the essential features of DreamWeaver; secondly, the aspects of DreamWeaver it DOES cover are not well-written (at times they are downright confusing, misleading, or blatantly incorrect); thirdly, the info in this book not directly pertaining to DreamWeaver is VERY massive -- WHY is it here at all ??!! If I want to learn about Cascading Style Sheets, WHY would I choose a book on DreamWeaver (nevermind that the info on CSS is dated, and therefore incomplete).

NO STARS !!

Too bad "DreamWeaver Bible" isn't available yet ..........1998-08-03

After purchasing this book through Amazon, I THEN read all these poor reviews, and all the favorable refernces to the upcoming "DreamWeaver Bible." I have no further thoughts about "Using DreamWeaver" than what's already here, so I'll spare the author of any further pain.

Not very impressed ..........1998-07-23

There just wasn't very much information here on DREAMWEAVER -- even though it's mentioned on, uh, the cover of the book. I'm not saying DW isn't for beginners, but I kinda figure that the "typical" DW user dowsn't need a tutorial on tables, frames, stylesheets, and general HTML syntax (which is what most of this book offers). Furthermore, WHY does this book even exist when Macromedia has provided an EXCELLENT web-based help file ??

Not much here ..........1998-07-09

There's a chapter here on creating "collapsable outlines" with DreamWeaver; but beyond that, there's REALLY not much information UNIQUELY about DreamWeaver covered in this book.

Too bad: the authors have a GREAT sense of humor ... they just don't know very much about DreamWeaver. The supplemental web site for this book reflects this, also: I dunno, I was expecting updated information about DreamWeaver that the authors "discovered" after this book's publication ... nope -- just a statement that Rick Darnell, the primary author of this book, has no intentions on working on this book any further.

Now, I admit: publishing a book/web site presents a new challenge to the author these days: providing information that can be found NOWHERE else on the web; but sadly, the authors of this book were not up to the task.

The author of "DreamWeaver Bible" (which has not even been published yet !!) ALREADY has a web site up, which provides JavaScript "behaviors" the user can "add" to DreamWeaver's files (an intriguing feature of DreamWeaver) -- files the author wrote AFTER his book went off to print ... I CHALLENGE the authors of this book to participate in this endeavor !!

If the author of DreamWeaver Bible is interested to know ... I can't WAIT until your book is published !!

A good book, but online documentation is superb........1998-07-06

Three cheers for Macromedia's "innovative" logic of offering DreamWeaver users the online Help Menu built RIGHT into DW.

It makes me wonder: Who DIDN'T notify the author of this otherwise good book that Macromedia would do such a thing?

Book Description

Web Page Design using Dreamweaver, by Marc Miller and Thomas Padgett, offers students an understanding of web development using the powerful DreamWeaver product. Unique online interactive training modules stress hands-on experience with each chapter’s concepts and procedures. Through the use of the text and modules, the student will learn how to use DreamWeaver to create a fully functional business website from a starting point of a blank web page.

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