Book Description
With its powerful combination of visual layout tools, application development features, and code editing support, Dreamweaver MX 2004 is sure to become the constant companion of many Web developers. Here to get you hands-on with it fast is the definitive project-based training on the topic from one of the master teachers at Linda.com training. Using a combination of project-based lessons, guided exercises, and QuickTime tutorials, veteran author Garo Green walks you through all the Dreamweaver MX 04 basics: navigating the new interface, creating and managing Web sites, and linking among pages. You'll learn about frames and forms, cascading style sheets, and Fireworks and Flash integration, and gobble up Garo¿s suggestions about best layout and typography practices. You'll also find extensive coverage of all of Dreamweaver's newest features: dynamic cross-browser validation, improved CSS support, built-in graphics editing, and more. Throughout, Garo shows you not just how to do something but why you¿re doing it and the results of your actions.

About the Author
Garo Green is the Director of Publications at lynda.com, where he manages the Hands-On-Training series. Garo has worked extensively in the development of custom curricula and courseware for software training, and he has more than 8 years of teaching experience in both hardware and software applications. He is known worldwide for his enthusiastic, approachable, and humanistic teaching style. Garo is the author of several Hands-On-Training books and web design training CD-ROMs, including Learning Dreamweaver MX 2004, Learning Windows XP, and several others. He has also been a featured speaker at the Web99 and FlashForward conferences. In his spare time, he can be found on his dirt bike testing the limits of gravity or at home healing from the inevitable dirt bike injury. He has also been known to sneak away, several times a day, to the local Starbucks for a double latte �to be honest it's usually a triple shot) with hazelnut. Of course, this might explain why he talks so fast! Note About lynda.com/books and lynda.com lynda.com/books is dedicated to helping designers and developers understand tools and design principles. lynda.com offers hands-on workshops, training seminars, conferences, on-site training, training videos, training CDs, and "expert tips" for design and development. To learn more about our training programs, books, and products, be sure to give our site a visit at http://www.lynda.com.

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The Barnes & Noble Review
Invest some time with Dreamweaver MX 2004 Hands-On Training. You￯﾿ﾽll be paid back handsomely -- with deep, marketable mastery of today￯﾿ﾽs No. 1 web development software package.

Garo Green and the legendary Lynda Weinman have put together an outstanding start-to-finish core course in Dreamweaver. This isn't simply ￯﾿ﾽdo this, don't do that￯﾿ﾽ: it's in-depth, real-world insight for applying your skills to real problems.

The heart of the book: over 100 hands-on exercises, each clearly introduced with detailed background, carefully annotated, and drawing on files provided on CD-ROM. Whenever the material gets really complex, just sit back and watch the authors￯﾿ﾽ QuickTime movies.

You￯﾿ﾽll get a rock-solid foundation: defining sites, links, typography, tables, and so forth. But that￯﾿ﾽs just the beginning. You￯﾿ﾽll thoroughly understand Dreamweaver￯﾿ﾽs precision layout tools, including tracing images, layers, and layout cells. There￯﾿ﾽs a superb hands-on introduction to using CSS in Dreamweaver, too.

There are detailed lessons on rollovers and behaviors, and on Fireworks integration (Dreamweaver itself now contains several basic Fireworks tools, so you won￯﾿ﾽt have to swap programs as often.) You￯﾿ﾽll also find an excellent XHTML jumpstart -- and, like it or not, XHTML is rapidly becoming indispensable.

Basic automation, templates, libraries, accessibility, multimedia: they￯﾿ﾽre all covered. Learn it all, one chapter at a time -- or use the book to learn just what you need to know today. It works superbly either way. (If you￯﾿ﾽre as impressed as we expect, look out for Dreamweaver MX 2004 Beyond the Basics Hands-On Training, too. It￯﾿ﾽll cover everything from server-side includes to database integration. Early word is it￯﾿ﾽs equally hot.) Bill Camarda

Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2003 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.

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