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The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP
written by David Powers
Studio : friends of ED
by friends of ED
Publisher : friends of ED
Released : 2007-07-22
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9781590598597
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 19 reviews)
List Price : $49.99
Our Price : $31.48
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Product Description |
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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Essential Book For Your Dreamweaver Library. |
I have had some experience in using Dreamweaver since version 8, and I wanted to 'marry' my meager PHP+MySQL experience in using Dreamweaver CS3 beyond what I was currently doing; creating static XHTML+CSS websites.
This book has exceeded my expectations and then some! With it, I am now able to easily create dynamic websites, all within the GUI comfort of Dw CS3. (Ok, some ad hoc hand coding may be needed.) I didn't really want to learn more about PHP programming, MySQL queries, Ajax, etc. I just wanted to know how to use tools available in Dw CS3 to manipulate web technologies, and this book delivers. Real-world examples in the book helps drive this knowledge further.
A mild caveat; this book really is an intermediate-level book. It would be helpful if you were already familiar with the technologies used in creating dynamic websites. i.e., having passing knowledge of PHP, MySQL, XHTML+CSS, Javascript, and Dw CS3. That said, the book does include a PHP and MySQL primer.
Some minor snits;
This book covered the installation of a LAMP stack on a local machine. (Either Windows or Mac) I would have liked to see a chapter on installing a LAMP server (Ubuntu is great!) on a laptop or a computer running in a home network. After some fair amount of trial and error, I was able to have a testing server on another machine, freeing up my main machine for Dw CS3 and other tasks.
It would be nice if the book could have followed up with more examples of extending Dw CS3. The book did show one example of how to add in a customized server behavior, and I wanted to see more of that. Less hand-coding, and more GUI coolness via these extensions would help making working in Dw CS3 a more enjoyable experience. |
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This Book Saved Me! |
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I'm currently taking a class in PHP/MySQL and it's use in eCommerce, and this book has really helped me along the way! The author shows you the ways in which Dreamweaver can help you to reduce your development time, but still produced some really great, dynamic sites. He goes into detail on some of the code as well, which is helpful. Additionally, the author is very honest and recommends other resources for items he covers in a limited manner. If you want to learn more about connecting to a database or just using PHP for simple mailing forms, as well as some nice CSS tips, this book is for you! |
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The very best programming/instructional book I've ever read |
I have read many books on programming. While I have gleaned some value from just about every book, the page-count-to-learning ratio hasn't been great. And on a few occasions, I hit a roadblock where I simply wasn't getting what author was telling me I should be completely proficient with at that moment...anyone else experience that?? Makes me feel like a coloring-by-the-numbers code monkey. I've gone back to some of those books once I have gained some proficiency on the topic (elsewhere) to find that those authors made things unnecessarily complex. Who knows why, but it sure pisses me off.
I give you this background, so that when I say that this book is absolutely without equal in delivering actionable, easy-to-understand content on almost every single page, that is no exaggeration. I lost count of the number of times I came up with a question, only to read the very next sentence which usually went something like this, "...you are probably wondering why this is the case. Here's why..." It was incredible! And the exercises start to ween you off of the minutia at precisely the right pace (for me, anyway). It was a great confidence builder when the author wrote, "You should be comfortable with these steps at this point..." and I totally was.
Truly excellent work by David Powers and Tom Muck (who did the technical review). And they've kept their errata/updates site up-to-date with DW CS3, which definitely came in handy as I encountered current-version discrepancies with things like Spry 1.6.
One miss was, the very last exercise did not work for me. After thoroughly reviewing the sample code, my code, etc. I submitted it as errata...waiting for a response. |
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A Perfect book |
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This book is a wonderful assistant for people they like to dive into DW and PHP. It completes all my questions and it's tips are rule! |
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Not exactly what I was looking for but.... |
it is an excellent book. I'm not sure what exactly I actually expected from a book that has Dreamweaver, CSS, AJAX ad PHP (and MySQL) in its title. But one thing is for sure - this book is truly great because this book does something that a lot of other technical books do not do - it teaches you to use several technologies in a chronological way, by adding functionality to the same web site. You do not learn things by following many unrelated examples, but rather by following a step by step instructions which will lead you to the final product - a functional dynamic web site. I find this system of teaching to be the best, because it shows you the actual process of implementation of the techniques and technologies and how they work together on the same page. Teach by example. But beware, that this concept of teaching does not exactly explain the why's, but rather concentrates on the how's giving real world examples without pushing the reader to use a certain approach only to later explain why that particular approach was bad and show a good one.
Although this book is intended for beginners in programming, some of the stuff was rather hard to comprehend and you certainly should not entirely rely on this book alone and seek some more examples on the subject, just to give you more clarity. And you certainly should know your way around Dreamweaver. The author will give you a quick overview of the work environment and CSS, but this is not the book you want if you can't work with Dreamweaver at least at the upper beginner level. That applies to your knowledge of CSS too.
This is not a quick study book. You will see immediate results, but to understand what is going on and be able to use the knowledge to make your own applications will require a lot of determination and effort on your part. I personally like that - no pain, no gain. However, if you have the will to go through a lot of coding, reading, looking for that missing semi-colomn in your code and do not want to be bothered by childish examples and exercises, your perseverance will be awarded and this book will make you a better web developer. It's 5 stars and a big THANK YOU MR POWERS from me. |
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