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The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP

achmatim — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:30:42 +0000

With over 3 million users worldwide, Adobe’s Dreamweaver is the most popular web development software in the world, and it just took another step forward with CS3, the new version released in 2007. Having come a long way from its humble beginnings as a simple web design tool, CS3 allows you to rapidly put together standards compliant web sites and dynamic web sites with server-side languages and Ajax, and much more.

To complement this great new application, David Powers has written the ultimate guide to it—The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 teaches you everything you need to know about the application, from setting up your development environment environment to publishing your sites and applications on the web, and everything in between.

Takes you through your development environment set up
Covers everything you need to create both standards compliant web sutes, and dynamic web applications
Teaches several real world techniques using a series of step by step tutorials

What you’ll learn

How to set up your ideal development environment, using Mac OSX/Windows, Apache (and IIS on Windows,) Apache, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin
Creating standards compliant web sites using CS3’s XHTML and CSS features
Creating dynamic web applications using CS3’s PHP and Spry Ajax server behaviors
Building several real world web site functions, such as form validation, random quote generator, search function, user management/login pages, dynamic Ajax gallery, and much more.
Creating an interface design in Fireworks CS3 and importing it into Dreamweaver CS3.
How use Dreamweaver CS3’s XML functionality, to consume RSS feeds, and create Spry data sets
Using includes, templates and master detail pages.
How to publish your site after you’ve created it

Summary of Contents

Chapter 1: Dreamweaver CS3—Your Creative Partner
Chapter 2: Building Dynamic Sites with Ajax and PHP
Chapter 3: Getting the Work Environment Ready
Chapter 4: Setting Up a PHP Site
Chapter 5: Adding a Touch of Style
Chapter 6: Creating a CSS Site Straight Out of the Box
Chapter 7: Building Site Navigation with the Spry Menu Bar
Chapter 8: Sprucing Up Content with Spry Widgets
Chapter 9: Building Online Forms and Validating Input
Chapter 10: Introducing the Basics of PHP
Chapter 11: Using PHP to Process a Form
Chapter 12: Working with PHP Includes and Templates
Chapter 13: Setting Up MySQL and phpMyAdmin
Chapter 14: Storing Records in a Database
Chapter 15: Controlling Access to Your Site
Chapter 16: Working with Multiple Tables
Chapter 17: Searching Records and Handling Dates
Chapter 18: Using XSLT to Display Live News Feeds and XML
Chapter 19: Using Spry to Display XML
Chapter 20: Getting the Best of Both Worlds with PHP and Spry

This book is part of friends of ED’s ‘Essential Guide’ series

The Essential Guide series takes a pragmatic approach to learning. We understand that you might not have the time or the inclination to read through a long book before you can get up and running, and we designed this series to give you the knowledge you want when you want it. The learning is always by example, with lots of code snippets that you can take with you and use in your own applications. The focus is on targeted learning for web professionals—providing the essential tools that the modern web developer needs. A book in this series won’t focus as much on the basics as a Foundation book, but it will take you further, introducing some advanced topics that are essential for using a particular technology in the real world.

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Dreamweaver CS4 For Dummies

achmatim — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:14:20 +0000

Whether you?re a seasoned pro or a Web design newbie, Dreamweaver CS4 For Dummies shows you the quickest, easiest way to get up to speed on Dreamweaver. You?ll be able to create professional, great-looking, user-friendly websites in no time at all. Take advantage of the new, more customizable interface, improved integration with Flash and Photoshop, a handy new AJAX coding feature, and Live View, which lets you see your work as you create it.

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Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8

achmatim — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:38:49 +0000

In this book we look specifically at using Dreamweaver’s built-in server behaviors to build dynamic web sites using PHP and MySQL, the world’s most popular open source server-side language and database server combination, which are both reliable, powerful, and open source (and therefore free to use!) This latest version of Dreamweaver includes even more powerful support for PHP and MySQL.

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From the Author

Since my previous book on PHP in Dreamweaver MX 2004, I’ve spent a lot of time researching the problems people encounter getting PHP/MySQL to work with Dreamweaver. The result is a book that I’m convinced will have you up and running quickly and painlessly. Dreamweaver 8 takes a lot of the hard work out of integrating a database into your websites, but it can’t do everything. So instead of just giving you a series of instructions to click this and click that, I help you understand what’s going on in the background. If you understand why you’re doing something, you’re more likely to remember it, and to get it right.

I’ve based the book round a case study that puts all of Dreamweaver’s PHP server behaviors through their paces, and uses techniques that can be applied to a wide range of sites, whether you’re designing for yourself or on behalf of clients. I also equip you with sufficient knowledge of basic PHP to have the confidence to dive into the code generated by Dreamweaver and tweak it to your own requirements. The emphasis is exclusively on PHP, so you don’t waste any time on information that’s not relevant to what you’re doing.

The final chapter takes an in-depth look at the exciting new addition to Dreamweaver 8’s server behaviors, XSL Transformation, which makes light work of incorporating a live news feed and other XML documents into your websites. I’ve had fun writing it. I hope you have fun using it.

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achmatim — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:28:35 +0000

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