Dreamweaver MX Complete Course

Errata

This book is now shipping. A couple sample images can be found here.

Chapter excerpt (653kb). Windows users, right+click and Save Target As. Only the PDF is included not the images. Since this book is a step-by-step you'd need all the previous files to follow along. But this chapter excerpt will give you an idea of the teaching method used in this book.

This book is now shipping! It is a beginner to an intermediate book that will take the reader all the way through everything needed to complete an entire Web site including connectiong to a database.

This all-new full-color tutorial shows how to create a high-quality Web site with Dreamweaver, the leading professional Web authoring software. It focuses on creating a single cutting-edge project--a multiple-page website.

The precise step-by-step instructions are enhanced with screenshots indicating the step numbers so you always know where to click or where to look for a specific feature. This course takes you far beyond just a beginners book however, you will learn how to use all of Dreamweavers core features (such as text, images, tables layers etc) while building a website. But you will also learn how to develop dynamic pages which connect to a database, build a framed site version as well as the featured site as well as dynamic HTML.

This course provides a real world workflow (as best as possible in a topic related teaching format) so templates and site management are handled early on in the course. There are plenty of tips such as browser incompatibilities and how to overcome some of the inconsistencies as well as a focus on CSS formatting rather than HTML formatting. You'll even learn how to access source images directly from Dreamweaver to edit them. You'll do edits such as replace images, work with slices, make changes in a graphic both in size and appearance and exporting.