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Amazon.co.uk Dreamweaver is a favourite among web professionals thanks to its high quality output and fast visual tools. It is also highly extensible, which is ideal both for power users and third-party vendors. Author Joseph Lowery is well known for his authoritative, in-depth writing on Dreamweaver, not least in the previous edition of this title. Dreamweaver 3 Bible maintains the high standard. This is a comprehensive guide to Dreamweaver 3, complete with explanations of key web technologies. The CD-ROM includes a trial version along with hundreds of extensions and code examples. Starting with an introductory overview, the book's first section is a hands-on tour of Dreamweaver covering all of its menus and preferences, and introducing site management and publishing. Next up is an introduction to HTML with in-depth coverage of using Dreamweaver for text formatting, image handling, links, lists, forms and frames. That accounts for around half the book.
The latter part of Dreamweaver 3 Bible puts the focus on dynamic web pages. Topics include CGI scripts, JavaScript, and understanding Dreamweaver Behaviours. A strong section on multimedia explains Fireworks integration, using Shockwave, and streaming video and audio with RealMedia and other technologies. Four chapters on Dynamic HTML show how you can use Cascading Style Sheets, layers and timelines to achieve rich dynamic effects. There is a brief look at advanced topics such as live database links, XML, and e-commerce. Finally, there is an explanation of Dreamweaver templates and libraries and a discussion of cross-browser compatibility.
Suitable for intermediate and advanced users, Dreamweaver 3 Bible is an excellent in-depth guide. It is particularly strong on multimedia and dynamic effects. The chapters on database links and e-commerce are too brief to be really useful, but that merely reflects Dreamweaver's status as a client-side authoring tool. --Tim Anderson
Synopsis
This guide to Dreamweaver 3, the tool for Web site design and production, enables the user to: incorporate recent Web technologies, such as XML and SMIL into Web pages; strengthen the active content of Web pages through Dreamweaver's automation and database features; create "cross-browser" code that supports both Netscape and Microsoft browsers; work more effectively by taking advantage of Dreamweaver's special integration with Macromedia programs, Flash and Fireworks; move artwork and text freely, drag and drop elements onto a page, and automate code fully utilizing the first HTML editor that includes support for Dynamic HTML; add JavaScript behaviours using the JavaScript library support; and learn easy animation tricks using a Director-style time line and utilize cascading style sheets, layering, absolute positioning and other effects. The accompanying CD-ROM includes a trial version of Dreamweaver 3, Flash 4 and Fireworks 3, over 300 Dreamweaver extensions and a library of JavaScript behaviours.
Customer Comments
Graham Cathcart (brosmols@cableinet.co.uk) from Scotland , 19 June, 2000 There should be no other choice. I wanted to start developing web sites a few months ago. Having gained a few peoples opinions I was advised to go for Dreamweaver 3.
I bought the program, installed it, ran it, and nearly had a breakdown on the spot. All those menus, all those pallettes, where was I supposed to start... I started to question the judgement of those "friends" who told me to buy the program in the first place. Sooo, I went back to those "friends" and asked them for their advice again... "What was the best way to learn how to use the program? " The answer that came back was to read books... Several of which were recommended to me. Listening to them and after a few checks on different sites I decided to plump for Dreamweaver 3 Bible. Now you must understand I hate reading books, I tend to go more for the "hands on approach".
Anyway I got the book around 2-3 weeks ago (Start of June 2000). Well things are going really well and I have already knocked out a Web site which changes by the day as I learn new tricks and better ways to do things. This book is BRILLIANT, FANTASTIC, GREAT. Believe me if I can understand it, anyone can. The writer and his team are to be congratulated and I can only add my thanks to him and all those he thanks himself at the start of the book. But for this book, I would probably have wasted the money I spent on Dreamweaaver 3.
To those who advised me to buy the program and to those who advised me to buy this book...... THANKS, you know what you are talking about.
premiershipman@hotmail.com from Isle of Man , 13 June, 2000 Truly Excellent I needed a book that would fully explain the ins and outs of Dreamweaver 3 -- and this is most definitely it.
Worth every penny
A reader from Steve Grundell in Leeds - UK , 6 May, 2000 An Excellent Book on Dreamweaver A really excellent book - much better than the one published by Sybex (which I gave a deservedly lousy review). The CD is excellent and the writer knows Dreamweaver inside out. It's the only book you need on Dreamweaver. If you think you know Dreamweaver then read this book and you'll be surprised what you learn. Highly recommended.
Mike Berry from United Kingdom , 29 April, 2000 THE best Dreamweaver book money can buy. Don't waste your online time by searching for any other Dreamweaver 3 books, this will do the job for you. Read this from cover to cover and you'll be hard put to learn anything else new about Dreamweaver! It's very big (1000+ pages) and very easy to read. This is a far far better book than the very disappointing "Mastering Macromedia Dreamweaver 3" by Sybex.
For once a book is supplied with a CD that's actually useful, containing some 300+ Dreamweaver extensions plug-ins.
Highly recommended.
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