The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP | David Powers

The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP | David Powers | This guy is a very excellent teacher

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	The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP David Powers friends of ED, 2007 - 784 pages average customer review:based on 26 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

With over 3 million users worldwide, Adobe's Dreamweaver is the most popular web development software in the world, and it just took another step forward with CS3, the new version released in 2007. Having come a long way from its humble beginnings as a simple web design tool, CS3 allows you to rapidly put together standards compliant web sites and dynamic web sites with server-side languages and Ajax, and much more. To complement this great new application, David Powers has written the ultimate guide to itThe Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 teaches you everything you need to know about the application, from setting up your development environment environment to publishing your sites and applications on the web, and everything in between. Takes you through your development environment set up Covers everything you need to create both standards compliant web sutes, and dynamic web applications Teaches several real world techniques using a series of step by step tutorials What youll learn How to set up your ideal development environment, using Mac OSX/Windows, Apache (and IIS on Windows,) Apache, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin Creating standards compliant web sites using CS3's XHTML and CSS features Creating dynamic web applications using CS3's PHP and Spry Ajax server behaviors Building several real world web site functions, such as form validation, random quote generator, search function, user management/login pages, dynamic Ajax gallery, and much more. Creating an interface design in Fireworks CS3 and importing it into Dreamweaver CS3. How use Dreamweaver CS3's XML functionality, to consume RSS feeds, and create Spry data sets Using includes, templates and master detail pages. How to publish your site after you've created it Summary of Contents Chapter 1: Dreamweaver CS3Your Creative Partner Chapter 2: Building Dynamic Sites with Ajax and PHP Chapter 3: Getting the Work Environment Ready Chapter 4: Setting Up a PHP Site Chapter 5: Adding a Touch of Style Chapter 6: Creating a CSS Site Straight Out of the Box Chapter 7: Building Site Navigation with the Spry Menu Bar Chapter 8: Sprucing Up Content with Spry Widgets Chapter 9: Building Online Forms and Validating Input Chapter 10: Introducing the Basics of PHP Chapter 11: Using PHP to Process a Form Chapter 12: Working with PHP Includes and Templates Chapter 13: Setting Up MySQL and phpMyAdmin Chapter 14: Storing Records in a Database Chapter 15: Controlling Access to Your Site Chapter 16: Working with Multiple Tables Chapter 17: Searching Records and Handling Dates Chapter 18: Using XSLT to Display Live News Feeds and XML Chapter 19: Using Spry to Display XML Chapter 20: Getting the Best of Both Worlds with PHP and Spry

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Best in class

I LOVE THIS BOOK. David Powers did a great job on this book. I've been looking for a book to teach me dreamweaver cs3, css, and php and this book delivers. It killed three birds with one stone. The book is wonderfully written, easy to understand, easy to follow, contains no php errors. This book has saved me countless hours of headaches and frustration. This is a sixth book I bought on php and it actually works. Only bad thing about this book is you wished there was more, a part 2. Once you start this book you can't sit it down. Everything goes so smooth. David Powers has me hooked I hope he writes a book for cs4 when it come out.

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This guy is a very excellent teacher

I've been through this book hard enough...everytime I think the author got some missed point, no...it was my own mistake. I go back and read over again the part where I encounter the problem and thats it..The author has never left anything incorrect. I encounter a lot of frustrating part (cursing the author!) but when I turn back, again; it was my mistake. I left some paragraph unread. (Sorry.) David had done an excellent job concerning about his readers. He definitely try to delivers as best as could and he succeed. Everything works just fine if you care enough to read thoroughly. I've been through with the Vhost, Vista installation, the relative root link, the PhpMyAdmin and yes, it works just fine. My side of advice, honestly; This book is more suitable if you at least have some basic experience working with Dreamweaver. Otherwise, I can't guarantee you know what you're doing (and not enjoy in doing so). Take a basic Dreamweaver book first (such as Adobe in a Classroom. Although it's there are some negative review about it, just ignore it. If you're really a beginner, you will be comfortable with it). And then take on this book. You are on a path of correct way to learn drive fast and efficiently. The combination to success in Dreamweaver is; The Classroom in a book, This book (Essential Guide) and the Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver by stepahanie and greg. Finishing this three, further on with the PHP. That's all. And for me, again; David Powers has done an excellent job.

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Great way to learn

I have a lot of books. I teach this stuff and try to read everything I can. This book is great. Easy to follow and the tasks are a useful way to learn how to use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). This goes from easy to more advanced in each section so anyone that needs to learn how to use CSS will get value. I highly recommend this book.

Great book for any dreamweaver developer

I dont normally review books, but I thought this one was worth reviewing. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who works with dreamweaver and wants to create modern, standards compliant websites and web applications.

The book is well written and thoroughly covers the subjects it claims to cover.

Each chapter is also written in such a way that it could be read independently of the other chapters. This is highly useful if you only want to cover one or two of the three primary subjects covered (css, php and ajax with Dreamweaver cs3).

By the end of this book you will be able to create basic (though useful) web apps, validate user input in forms, use dreamweaver's built in ajax functions (spry) to make content much more interesting and create standards compliant websites that will be viewable in all browsers.

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A Great book!!

This book is a must for anyone looking to get stuck into PHP, AJAX and Dreamweaver (as in the title). The steps are clearly written and easy to follow with troubleshooting sections at the end of each chapter. The steps for setting up a local server (Apache or IIS) or again well written with good advice that you are able to choose or ignore. I highly recommend this book!!

Mr Powers....write us another book soon pleeeaaasssee!!!

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