After a brief introduction to the latest version of Dreamweaver, and how CSS and XHTML fit into it, Craig looks at using the software for your web design projects in a hands-on, task based manner, covering these topics:
- Setting up a site in Dreamweaver
- Global web site essentials, such as dealing with doctypes, meta tags, comments, and page defaults, and attaching CSS and JavaScript files to your page
- Styling page content properly using CSS
- Working with images
- Creating web site navigation
- CSS for impressive page layouts that work
- Getting user feedback via forms
Following these exercises, the book then shows how to bring everything together with a final case study using Dreamweaver to build a complete web site.
Summary of Contents:
- Chapter 1: A New Kind of Web Design
- Chapter 2: Getting Started with Dreamweaver
- Chapter 3: Setting Up a Website
- Chapter 4: Web Page Essentials
- Chapter 5: Working with Text
- Chapter 6: Working with Images
- Chapter 7: Creating Navigation for Your Website
- Chapter 8: Web Page Layouts
- Chapter 9: Getting User Feedback
- Chapter 10: Putting It All into Practice
Who is this book for?
Have you never setup a site in Dreamweaver in the proper way, do you feel you don't get the most out of Dreamweaver or are you completely new to Dreamweaver 8? Then this book is for you. This book is excellent for beginners but it will contain useful tips for intermediate users as well.
Conclusion
This book makes sure you start with a good basis.
We get a lot of questions on DMXzone.com that book can answer. The book has got a clear layout. One of the few things that could be improved design wise is the fact that the same graphic is used for each chapter but other then that the screenshots are clear and the graphics are functional. The author teaches beginners to get the most out of Dreamweaver, so if you are relatively new to Dreamweaver you should really get this book.Competition
The friendly people of Friends of ED are giving away 5 books. All you need to do, to enter the competition is; download the extract (press read more and then download sample PDF on your right) and answer the following question:
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What is an image map? Please use the exact description of the sample PDF for your answer.
Send your answer to this e-mail address, before Thursday the 6th of April 2006. Don't forget to include your post address and phone number (required for international shipping) in the e-mail.
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