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Essential Book For Your Dreamweaver Library. | The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP | David Powers

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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 23 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Excellent

Covers exactly what the title suggests, and does does effectively.

Utilising Dreamweaver's inbuilt PHP functions can speed up the production time of a new website.

Title is misleading, it's not about PHP or AJAX

This is a purchase that I regret. :-( I was quite disappointed by the misleading title. The book contains decent coverage of Dreamweaver for beginners. The book is not quite a tutorial but it is definitely not a comprehensive reference.

The book covers how to do basics in Spry. Spry is the AJAX framework bundled in Dreamweaver. There is no depth in the writing on Spry, and the coverage of RESTful and AJAX is minimal. The same can be said for the treatment of PHP. The coverage of PHP is superficial. There's no practical guidance on how to use PHP in Dreamweaver application development.

Two is harsh, because this is an average book and it probably merits a 3 but for the misleading title. However, I can't bring myself to mark it as a 2 because the author saw a way to sell copies. Returning to Dreamweaver after missing a couple releases, I found "Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual" to be a more complete book, and while it also covers Spry and a bit of PHP it makes no pretensions about its focus.

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Essential Book For Your Dreamweaver Library.

I have had some experience in using Dreamweaver since version 8, and I wanted to 'marry' my meager PHP+MySQL experience in using Dreamweaver CS3 beyond what I was currently doing; creating static XHTML+CSS websites.

This book has exceeded my expectations and then some! With it, I am now able to easily create dynamic websites, all within the GUI comfort of Dw CS3. (Ok, some ad hoc hand coding may be needed.) I didn't really want to learn more about PHP programming, MySQL queries, Ajax, etc. I just wanted to know how to use tools available in Dw CS3 to manipulate web technologies, and this book delivers. Real-world examples in the book helps drive this knowledge further.

A mild caveat; this book really is an intermediate-level book. It would be helpful if you were already familiar with the technologies used in creating dynamic websites. i.e., having passing knowledge of PHP, MySQL, XHTML+CSS, Javascript, and Dw CS3. That said, the book does include a PHP and MySQL primer.

Some minor snits;
This book covered the installation of a LAMP stack on a local machine. (Either Windows or Mac) I would have liked to see a chapter on installing a LAMP server (Ubuntu is great!) on a laptop or a computer running in a home network. After some fair amount of trial and error, I was able to have a testing server on another machine, freeing up my main machine for Dw CS3 and other tasks.

It would be nice if the book could have followed up with more examples of extending Dw CS3. The book did show one example of how to add in a customized server behavior, and I wanted to see more of that. Less hand-coding, and more GUI coolness via these extensions would help making working in Dw CS3 a more enjoyable experience.

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The ABSOLUTE BEST book ever written for Dreamweaver CS3!!!

This book has saved my butt so many times now! I've only had it a couple months now but every question I've came up with on Dreamweaver, PHP, MySQL, Spry, Ajax or CSS, I have been able to easily find and work trough in this book. This is THE BIBLE for any Dreamweaver CS3 user out there! I would recommend it to everyone!

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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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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