Lowery begins by explaining Dreamweaver, the current HTML standards, and new features such as dynamic styles and JavaScript behaviours. He provides a tour of the interface and helps you set your preferences, starting you off in the planning and creation of your first site. Later he goes into more detail about HTML, showing how to use Common Gateway Interface (CGI)programs, plug-ins, ActiveX, Java applets and scripts and VBScript. (DHTML gets its own section too.) There's a series of explanations on specific Dreamweaver capabilities, from creating objects to customising behaviours and tags.

General interest Internet topics get their due and the book covers multimedia elements, including how to add video, audio, and Shockwave movies to your Web page. For larger-scale Web sites, the sections on Cascading Style Sheets and XML will be useful, and information on dynamic databases and e-commerce issues wrap the book up nicely.

The appendices offer primers on the HTML editors BBEdit and HomeSite--advanced HTML editors for Mac and Windows users(respectively)--and on Dreamweaver Attain, a companion Dreamweaver program that helps you create instructional Web sites. The companion CD-ROM includes demos of Macromedia's Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash 3; sample code used in the book; and Dreamweaver behaviours, objects, commands, stylesheets, and inspectors. --Kathleen Caster

Product Description
If Dreamweaver 2 can do it, you can do it too… With its groundbreaking pagelayout capabilities, new Dream Templates and Commands, unique sitemanagement functions, plus support for the latest Web technologies, Dreamweaver 2 brings you more control and more flexibility than ever before. Whether you're creating heavyaction sites packed with sound effects, Shockwave movies, sophisticated animations, or datadriven, interactive sites for ecommerce, you'll find all the information you need to speed construction, smooth maintenance, and power up your pages in Dreamweaver^™ 2 Bible. Inside, you'll find complete coverage of Dreamweaver 2

• Quickly build a site using Dreamweaver's windows, palettes, and inspectors
• Drop links, clientside image maps, and interactive forms into your site
• Manipulate elements online or offline using Cascading Style Sheets
• Set up frames easily with Dreamweaver's clickanddrag functionality
• Liven up HTML pages with CGI scripts, JavaScripts, applets, and controls
• Create Web pages with active content through Dreamweaver's new database connectivity partners
• Preview audio, video, and other active content at design stage
• Add a third dimension to your Web page with Dynamic HTML layers
• Explore Webbased learning opportunities with Dreamweaver 2 Attain
• Include the latest Web technologies such as XML and SMIL

• Behaviors
• Objects
• Commands
• Style sheets
• Browser profiles
• Inspectors
• Queries
• Beatnik Player
• A Web resource directory and all the sample code from the book