The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP
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Dreamweaver CS4 is a massive step forward in terms of integration with the rest of the CS4 suite (Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop, etc.), and also includes a whole host of exciting new features of its own. The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP concentrates on getting the best out of Dreamweaver CS4, rather than going into every menu item and toolbar icon. The emphasis is on developing websites compliant with the latest web standards, using CSS, … More >>
The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP
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This book does a good job of going over the new basic and new features to CS4, and it also gets in depth with a lot of new features.
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought the book because the title captured a blend of my strong and weak points. I’m very comfortable with AJAX and PHP, but really didn’t seem to get the true power of CSS or Dreamweaver CS4 tool set. I’m 3/4 through the book now and I can tell you that the writing style is way above the norm. Very few or no typos, great insight on how to use the Dreamweaver CS4 features, and nice integration of common open-source products such as PHP and AJAX (ala SPRY mostly). Now I feel very comfortable leaving my table web page designs and using CSS to cascade my way through the style of my new page designs. Thanks again David.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is a must have to all new Dreamweaver, MySQL and PHP users. The exercises are very good and very easy to follow.I had no previous experience with Dreamweaver, MySQL or PHP and now I can manage my new dynamic website!
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is pure genius. I am pretty good at HTML and CSS but David pointed out some things that really surprised me and have helped my Web Design to be even better. I mostly skimmed the first few chapters and now I am in the AJAX area. I absolutely love it. David please keep writing and don’t forget to add in your humor once in a while in the book. Thats what I like about the book. It isn’t dry and boring he throws something in that is geeky funny. Thats what really makes me keep reading the book.
Rating: 5 / 5
Finally – a book for what is NEW in Dreamweaver. There have been many exciting changes in web development, and in Dreamweaver. It is frustrating to only find books that begin at – the – very – beginning.
The Essentail Guide to DW CS4 brings the intermediate and advanced web designer up to speed with clear and brilliant tutorials. There are some “texty” areas, but Powers acknowledges how tedious it is to read about programming – and gets back to hands on quickly.
Wish there were more authors out there who see the need for books that jump in ‘beyond the basics’.
Thank you.
(I’m a mac, so it was a bit rough setting up a dynamic site with this book. I used the Missing Manual series to walk through that part…MM is mac friendly
PS – If you do the tutorials out of order, you may not have the necessary files for the sprys. MADDENING. If Amazon would let me take away a star I would for this very reason …
Rating: 5 / 5