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Written both for novices and experienced users, this guide to Dreamweaver 4 provides instruction on the process of creating a Web site. It covers basics, like the roles of HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, and XML, and more complicated skills like creating rollovers, implementing style sheets, tracing images, using layers, and making tables. Chapters address specific elements, including interface, site control linking, typography, layout, frames, forms, behaviors, automation, and plug-ins. An accompanying CD-ROM contains guided exercises and movies illustrating complex techniques. Green is a Web designer and software trainer and Weinman is seasoned in the digital arts.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


From the Back Cover
Dreamweaver 4 Hands-On Training is the latest, updated version of the highly acclaimed tutorial from leading Web-design trainers Garo Green and Lynda Weinman. Thousands of Dreamweaver users have learned how to use the program by simply doing the step-by-step exercises in this foolproof book. The exercises use a real-life Web site to demonstrate how to create everything from rollover effects--using automated JavaScript behaviors, to page layouts--using one of Dreamweaver 4's latest features, Layout Tables. Advanced sections of the book show how to create interactive, moving elements in your Web site, and how to download and use the hundreds of free extensions available online to Macromedia Dreamweaver users. And throughout the book, readers learn useful bits of information about HTML, online type, Web color, and more. In addition to the book, readers get a CD-ROM complete with exercise files and informative QuickTime videos that offer additional support for each chapter.


About the Author
Lynda Weinman is the creator of lynda.com, a leading force in Web-design training. An author and designer, she has been teaching digital arts since the late 1980s at such places as Art Center College of Design, American Film Institute, San Francisco State, UCLA, and most recently at her own popular training center in Ojai, California. Her best-selling books, including Dreamweaver 3.0 Hands-On Training and Designing Web Graphics.3, are used by professional Web designers worldwide. Garo Green is the Director of Training at the Lynda.com Ojai Digital Arts Center in Ojai, California. He has worked primarily in the development of custom curriculum and courseware for software training and has extensive knowledge of HTML, computer graphics, and Web design.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Dreamweaver 4 Hands-On Training is the latest, updated version of the highly acclaimed tutorial from leading Web-design trainers Garo Green and Lynda Weinman. Thousands of Dreamweaver users have learned how to use the program by simply doing the step-by-step exercises in this foolproof book. The exercises use a real-life Web site to demonstrate how to create everything from rollover effects--using automated JavaScript behaviors, to page layouts--using one of Dreamweaver 4's latest features, Layout Tables. Advanced sections of the book show how to create interactive, moving elements in your Web site, and how to download and use the hundreds of free extensions available online to Macromedia Dreamweaver users. And throughout the book, readers learn useful bits of information about HTML, online type, Web color, and more.

In addition to the book, readers get a CD-ROM complete with exercise files and informative QuickTime videos that offer additional support for each chapter.

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