Book Description
With this book you'll learn: - Web site planning techniques, including audience profiling, and reviewing competing sites - Web design techniques such as brainstorming, choosing what technologies are suitable for your design, and creating mockups Advanced Dreamweaver MX 2004 techniques - Web standards, including CSS and XHTML - Implementing dynamic web sites using ASP or PHP Dreamweaver MX 2004 Design Projects takes you through the process of creating four real-world case studies, enabling you to take your Dreamweaver skills to a new level. Each case study is written by a different web design professional, and features a common web site archetype taken from inception to completion. All are brimming with essential techniques to inspire and teach you. The four different sites are as follows: - Christopher Schmitt’s entertainment/fan site project, dedicated to the band U2, covers setting site goals; producing user profiles to define the audience, site maps, and design mockups; refining the design and producing it in Photoshop; and finally working with Dreamweaver MX 2004 to easily construct an accessible, easy-to-maintain web site. - Allan Kent’s news portal project takes you through the process of designing and building a dynamic, database-driven site with Dreamweaver MX 2004 and PHP. He looks at information architecture, building the back-end database, creating the necessary admin tools, and finally building a front-end that is both standards compliant and easy to use. - Craig Grannell’s corporate site project begins with groundwork and methodology, then shows how to harness the power of CSS and Dreamweaver MX 2004 templates to rapidly get a site up and running and ensure that updates and maintenance are painless and cost effective. - Rachel Andrew’s company intranet projectwalks you through the entire process of creating a company intranet using the ASP server model in Dreamweaver MX 2004. It begins with a detailed planning stage, then continues by looking at database development, providing user logins, and managing files on the server. This project utilizes built-in Server Behaviors in Dreamweaver, third-party extensions, and hand-coding.

About the Author
Rachel Andrew Rachel is a director of edgeofmyseat.com, a UK-based web solutions company, and is an experienced web developer. Rachel is a member of the Web Standards Project on the Dreamweaver Task Force, and hopes to encourage best practices in the support and use of W3C Standards in Dreamweaver. In addition to co-authoring several books, Rachel writes for various magazines and resource sites, both online and off. When not writing code or writing about writing code, Rachel spends time with her daughter, tries to encourage people to use Debian GNU/Linux, studies with the Open University, and enjoys a nice pint of beer. Craig Grannell Craig was trained in the fine arts, but soon became immersed in the world of digital media and showed work at several leading European media arts festivals. His art ranged from short video pieces to odd performances, sometimes with the aid of a computer, televisions, and a P.A. system, and sometimes with a small bag of water above his head. Craig soon realized he’d actually have to make a proper living. Luckily, in the mid-1990s, the Web caught his attention, and he’s been working with it ever since. Along with writing for several prominent design-related magazines, he finds time to create websites for the likes of 2000 AD, write the occasional book, work on his eclectic audio project, and sporadically delve back into the world of video. Much of his work (and dancing trees) can be found at his website, Snub Communications. Allan Kent Allan lives, works, and plays in Cape Town, South Africa. In the last 4 years, he’s been implicated in at least 10 books dealing with PHP and web-related topics. When not being harassed by persistent editors about deadlines, he works doing new media design at Lodestone, which he co-owns. When not writing or programming, he enjoys relaxing at home with Wendy and their cats. Christopher Schmitt Christopher is the principal of Heatvision.com, Inc., a new media publishing and design firm, based in Tallahassee, FL. An award-winning web designer who has been working with the Web since 1993, Christopher interned for both David Siegel and Lynda Weinman in the mid-1990s while an undergraduate at Florida State University for a fine arts degree with emphasis on graphic design. He shows his true colors and most recent activities at his personal website, Christopher.org. He is the author of the CSS Cookbook(O’Reilly) and Designing CSS Web Pages(New Riders). He is also the co-author of AdobePhotoshop CS in 10 Steps or Less(Wiley) and contributed four chapters to XML, HTML, & XHTML Magicby Molly Holzschlag (New Riders). Christopher has also written for New Architect Magazine, A List Apart, Digital Web, and Web Reference. Speaking at conferences like The Other Dreamweaver Conference and SXSW, Christopher has given talks demonstrating the use and benefits of practical CSS-enabled designs. In his continuing efforts to help spread the word about web design, he is the list mom for Babble, a mailing list community devoted to advanced web design and development topics.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Dreamweaver MX 2004 Design Projects takes you through the process of creating four real-world case studies, enabling you to take your Dreamweaver skills to a new level. Each case study is written by a different web design professional, and features a common web site archetype taken from inception to completion. All are brimming with essential techniques to inspire and teach you.

SYNOPSIS

To guide readers through the new scripting language, Python, this book discusses every aspect of client and server programming. And as Python begins to replace Perl as a favorite programming language, this book will benefit scripters and serious application developers who want a feature-rich, yet simple language, for deploying their products. The text explains multitasking network servers using several models, including forking, threading, and non-blocking sockets. Furthermore, the extensive examples demonstrate important concepts and practices, and provide a cadre of fully-functioning stand alone programs. Readers may even use the provided examples as building blocks to create their own software.

ACCREDITATION

Rachel Andrew

Rachel is a director of edgeofmyseat.com, a UKbased web solutions company, and is an experienced web developer. Rachel is a member of the Web Standards Project on the Dreamweaver Task Force, and hopes to encourage best practices in the support and use of W3C Standards in Dreamweaver. In addition to coauthoring several books, Rachel writes for various magazines and resource sites, both online and off. When not writing code or writing about writing code, Rachel spends time with her daughter, tries to encourage people to use Debian GNU/Linux, studies with the Open University, and enjoys a nice pint of beer.

Craig Grannell

Craig was trained in the fine arts, but soon became immersed in the world of digital media and showed work at several leading European media arts festivals. His art ranged from short video pieces to odd performances, sometimes with the aid of a computer, televisions, and a P.A. system, and sometimes with a small bag of water above his head.

Craig soon realized he￯﾿ﾽd actually have to make a proper living. Luckily, in the mid1990s, the Web caught his attention, and he￯﾿ﾽs been working with it ever since. Along with writing for several prominent designrelated magazines, he finds time to create websites for the likes of 2000 AD, write the occasional book, work on his eclectic audio project, and sporadically delve back into the world of video. Much of his work (and dancing trees) can be found at his website, Snub Communications (www.snubcommunications.com).

Allan Kent

Allan lives, works, and plays in Cape Town, South Africa. In the last 4 years, he￯﾿ﾽs been implicated in at least 10 books dealing with PHP and webrelated topics. When not being harassed by persistent editors about deadlines, he works doing new media design at Lodestone, which he coowns. When not writing or programming, he enjoys relaxing at home with Wendy and their cats.

Christopher Schmitt

Christopher is the principal of Heatvision.com, Inc., a new media publishing and design firm, based in Tallahassee, FL. An awardwinning web designer who has been working with the Web since 1993, Christopher interned for both David Siegel and Lynda Weinman in the mid1990s while an undergraduate at Florida State University for a fine arts degree with emphasis on graphic design. He shows his true colors and most recent activities at his personal website, www.christopher.org.

He is the author of the CSS Cookbook(O￯﾿ﾽReilly) and Designing CSS Web Pages(New Riders). He is also the coauthor of AdobePhotoshop CS in 10 Steps or Less(Wiley) and contributed four chapters to XML, HTML, & XHTML Magicby Molly Holzschlag (New Riders). Christopher has also written for New Architect Magazine, A List Apart, Digital Web, and Web Reference.