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The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP

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  1. David Powers
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  • Follow up to The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3

  • Covers all of the key features in the new software release

  • Written by renowned Dreamweaver author David Powers

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Dreamweaver’s New Look— More than Skin Deep

    Pages 1-56

  3. Setting Up a Site in Dreamweaver

    Pages 59-100

  4. Creating a Web Page and Adding Content

    Pages 103-153

  5. Using CSS to Add a Touch of Style

    Pages 155-193

  6. Creating a CSS Site Straight Out of the Box

    Pages 195-230

  7. Building Site Navigation with the Spry Menu Bar

    Pages 233-254

  8. Using Spry Dynamic Effects and Components

    Pages 257-305

  9. Going Beyond the Basics with Spry and Ajax

    Pages 307-369

  10. Building Online Forms and Validating Input

    Pages 371-422

  11. Introducing the Basics of PHP

    Pages 425-457

  12. Using PHP to Process a form

    Pages 459-501

  13. Reducing Your Workload with PHP Includes

    Pages 503-536

  14. Preserving Design Integrity with Templates and Incontext Editing

    Pages 539-580

  15. Storing User Records in a Database

    Pages 583-635

  16. Validating Database Input and User Authentication

    Pages 637-681

  17. Working with Custom Forms and Multiple Tables

    Pages 683-740

  18. Handling Checkbox Groups, Searches, and Dates

    Pages 743-802

  19. Using XSLT to Display Live News Feeds and XML

    Pages 805-841

  20. Using Spry Data Sets to Refresh Content

    Pages 843-887
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About this book

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 whole host of exciting features of its own. The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP concentrates on getting the most 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, JavaScript libraries (with particular emphasis on Spry, Adobe's implementation of Ajax), and PHP.

The book covers all aspects of the new user interface, including workspace layouts, iconic panels, the related documents feature, Live View, Code Navigator, and Live Code. It also shows how to use the improved CSS editing features, and JavaScript code introspection. There is also coverage of other new features, such as version control through Subversion integration, and the improved support for Photoshop integration through the use of Smart Objects.

  • Takes you through your development environment set up
  • Covers everything you need to create both standards compliant web sites, and dynamic web applications
  • Teaches real world techniques using a series of step by step tutorials

About the author

David Powers is an Adobe Community Expert for Dreamweaver and author of a series of highly successful books on PHP, including PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy and Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8. As a professional writer, he has been involved in electronic media for more than 30 years, first with BBC radio and television and more recently with the Internet. His clear writing style is valued not only in the English-speaking world; several of his books have been translated into Spanish and Polish. What started as a mild interest in computing was transformed almost overnight into a passion, when David was posted to Japan in 1987 as BBC correspondent in Tokyo. With no corporate IT department just down the hallway, he was forced to learn how to fix everything himself. When not tinkering with the innards of his computer, he was reporting for BBC television and radio on the rise and collapse of the Japanese bubble economy. Since leaving the BBC to work independently, he has built up an online bilingual database of economic and political analysis for Japanese clients of an international consultancy. When not pounding the keyboard writing books or dreaming of new ways of using PHP and other programming languages, David enjoys nothing better than visiting his favorite sushi restaurant. He has also translated several plays from Japanese.

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