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

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

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Author: David Powers
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-07-22
ISBN: 1590598598
Number of pages: 784
Publisher: friends of ED

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Book Review: Excellent Presentation
Summary: 5 Stars

I have been a software developer for over 25 years, and have learned virtually all languages and technologies informally, through reading books and/or spending time with others versed in a particular discipline. Prior to purchasing this book my experience has been in traditional language development and operating systems, with only very limited HTML, CSS and web development knowledge.

I originally purchased and use Adobe CS3 for the design products: InDesign, Illustrator, PhotoShop, and never gave much thought to Dreamweaver. However, after stumbling across this book on Amazon, my interest was piqued and I wondered if I could leverage the power of a tool like Dreamweaver (sorry, hard-core HTML hackers!) without sacrificing the ability to control my own destiny in terms of going beyond the basics of a WYSIWYG tool with programming of PHP, JavaScript, and AJAX.

I am very pleased to report that not only is the product, Dreamweaver, capable of delivering both efficiency and power, but this book is a nearly perfect way to learn both. The author works with you like an experienced teacher throughout, often repeating steps and concepts early in the book so that they "stick", then about the time you think, "OK, I know this already", he lets you know he believes you probably get the concept and spends progressively less time on the rote, focusing on the issue at hand.

I recommend this book for anyone who is looking to explore using Dreamweaver as a web development tool. You will quickly be creating sites that are powerful and configurable using CSS, AJAX, and PHP.

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

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 itThe 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 youll 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 CS3Your 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

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