You’re a beginner who wants to design a state-of-the-art family web site. You’ve just started a new job, and you need to learn Dreamweaver fast. Or maybe you’re a professional who’s been using another program but is now switching to Macromedia’s leading web design tool. Learning Dreamweaver 8 gets you up to speed, quickly and efficiently.
Straightforwardly practical, with speed as the by-word, this hands-on guide focuses on the best practices for constructing both interactive and static web sites. While explaining core concepts clearly and thoroughly, so that beginners have a solid conceptural and technical foundation, it cuts through the clutter that might slow down a beginner tackling a subject as vast as web design and a tool as robust as Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver 8 Design and Construction emphasizes learning by doing, with short, task-oriented chapters that demonstrate theory by presenting design solutions and explaining the principles that make them work. Plenty of screen shots, illustrations, and sample layouts accompany rapid prototyping techniques for site production.
Marc Campbell has been building web sites since 1997-for everything from comic book fan communities to state government portals and e-commerce applications. A Macromedia Certified Dreamweaver Developer and beta tester, he has taught web design to students at all levels and has written eight books on the subject.
Sidebars in Dreamweaver 8 Design and Construction allow readers to decide how deeply they want to delve into the subject. “Best Bets” offer bottom-line recommendations for those who want to skip the general discussion, while “Behind the Scenes” sidebars provide more in-depth looks at particular topics for those who want more detail. Absolute beginner or faux debutante, you’ll learn proven procedures for quickly building Dreamweaver sites.

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This series is hosted by Janine Warner, best-selling author of Dreamweaver For Dummies, which has sold more than 200,000 copies and is in its sixth edition. During the over 10-hour video series produced in HD, Janine shares her extensive knowledge of the industry-leading web design tool.

Highlights
The series helps you learn how to efficiently layout, develop, and maintain standards-based websites. Tutorials are also peppered with tips and tricks that can only be learned from an avid user of the software.

• Get up to speed quickly with an in-depth overview of this award-winning web development tool.
  
• Understand the numerous capabilities of working in this flexible software that is both a design tool and code editor.
  
• Learn how to quickly incorporate video and other multimedia into your web site and make more efficient updates.
• Tested / Working Links

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Dreamweaver 8 Essential Training is a tutorial designed for beginning to intermediate Dreamweaver users who want to quickly get up to speed on the latest version of Macromedia’s incredibly popular Web development application. This tutorial begins by covering basic Web authoring skills like working with text and images, adding links, modifying page properties, and managing your site. From there you’ll move on to more advanced topics like using Dreamweaver 8’s new unified CSS style panel, creating layouts with layers, and embedding audio and video files into your pages. This tutorial shows you everything you need to know to go from creating your first page to publishing an entire site on the Web.

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This valuable reference picks up where the Visual QuickStart Guide leaves off with advanced step-by-step tutorials on working with servers, setting up database connections, using SQL, and building dynamic pages—and that’s just in the first half of the book! The book’s second half includes clear, concise instructions on how to build dynamic forms and dynamic tables, create a search page for your site, and control access to your site with a user log-in and password.

You’ll get real-world examples and detailed illustrations of how and when features should be put to use, including what’s new in Dreamweaver 8: code-editing improvements such as the coding toolbar and code collapse, drag-and-drop integration of XML data, server-side transformations with XSLT, support for PHP 5 and ColdFusion MX 7, and more!

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Even if you’ve never used Macromedia Dreamweaver before, this Visual QuickStart Guide will have you up and running with Macromedia’s popular Web authoring program in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to Macromedia Dreamweaver, leading technology authors Tom Negrino and Dori Smith use their trademark crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you everything that’s new in Dreamweaver 8. Filled with step-by-step, task-based instructions and loads of visual aids, this book explains how to use all of the program’s visual layout tools, application development features, and code editing support to create stunning, accessible Web sites. Along the way, you’ll find extensive coverage of all the program’s new features: drag-and-drop integration of XML data feeds, improved CSS support, advanced style rendering toolbar, the industry’s first integrated Web accessibility evaluation tool for Section 508 and WCAG 2 checkpoints, and more!

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What Is Dreamweaver 8?

At its roots, Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 is a WYSIWIG (what you see is what you get) XHTML generator. This means if you change something on the screen inside Dreamweaver 8, it will show you the results instantly and write the proper code for you. In contrast, if you were to code the XHTML by hand in a non-WYSIWIG editor, you would have to write the code and then view the results from inside a Web browser, write more code, and check again. The instant feedback of a live design environment such as Dreamweaver 8 speeds up your workflow tremendously, because you can see whether you like the results while you are working.

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Learn by doing! Follow along, step-by-step, as you upgrade a static HTML site that uses obsolete code to an XML standard-compliant, CSS-formatted dynamic site using Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP), Macromedia ColdFusion, or the open source PHP. Create several integrated applications for a fictional travel tour operator, including a searchable listing for tour descriptions, country profiles, and a tour price calendar. In this official Macromedia guide, you’ll learn how to:

* Use a relational database—Microsoft Access or MySQL—as the driving force behind a site
* Use Dreamweaver’s built-in server behaviors and application objects to assist in the rapid development of dynamic Web applications
* Read and hand-code ASP VBScript, ColdFusion Markup Language, and PHP scripts well enough to understand how dynamic Web pages work, troubleshoot errors, and customize scripts
* Collect and manipulate user-entered data, performing calculations on the fly
* Use SQL to pass information between your pages and the database
* Validate forms using client-side and server-side scripts
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Looking for timesaving ways to get frequently needed data-driven applications up and running? Look no further! In this book, you’ll find a primer for using data sources to connect your Dreamweaver pages to a database. Lowery and Ott then provide step-by-step instructions for creating 7 full-featured, professional-quality Web applications suitable for small to medium organizations. Follow the carefully constructed tutorials, and you can use them today—because all the files and code you need are available on the included CD! Better still, the explanations you’ll read will give you insight into why each step was taken so that you can extend any of the recipes to meet individualized needs.

Recipes for the following full-feature applications:

* User Login
* Employee Lookup
* Conference Room Scheduler
* In/Out Dashboard
* Time Cards
* Journal
* Mail Merge
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Do you want to learn about Microsoft’s ASP and use it via Dreamweaver 8 to add the power of a database to your website? Use dynamic web forms to exchange data between you and your users? Build complete web applications? This book shows you how to do all that and more.

Dreamweaver 8 takes a lot of the hard work out of performing tasks such as integrating a database into your website, but it can’t do everything. That’s why this book not only shows you how to use all of Dreamweaver’s functions, but also shows you how the underlying code functions, so you can then work around Dreamweaver’s shortcomings. There’s no attempt to turn you into a code guru, but you’ll come away with sufficient knowledge of basic ASP to have the confidence to dive into the Dreamweaver code and tweak it to your own requirements. The emphasis is exclusively on ASP, so you don’t waste any time on information that’s not relevant to what you want to do.

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Need to take your Macromedia Dreamweaver skills to the next level? You don’t have to be a programmer to build interactivity into your site. You just need Dreamweaver 8—Macromedia’s powerful new Web design and development tool—access to a Web server and an application server, and a copy of Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide.

• Takes a visual, task-based approach to guiding you through advanced topics and applying what you learn
• Works like a reference book - you look up what you need and then get straight to work
• Concise, straightforward steps and explanations offer the fastest way to learn tasks and concepts
• Companion Web site includes sample files

This valuable reference picks up where the Visual QuickStart Guide leaves off with advanced step-by-step tutorials on working with servers, setting up database connections, using SQL, and building dynamic pages—and that’s just in the first half of the book! The book’s second half includes clear, concise instructions on how to build dynamic forms and dynamic tables, create a search page for your site, and control access to your site with a user log-in and password.

You’ll get real-world examples and detailed illustrations of how and when features should be put to use, including what’s new in Dreamweaver 8: code-editing improvements such as the coding toolbar and code collapse, drag-and-drop integration of XML data, server-side transformations with XSLT, support for PHP 5 and ColdFusion MX 7, and more!
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