Amazon.co.uk Review
Dreamweaver 4 Bible is a tutorial and a reference, providing an excellent companion to Macromedia's professional Web-design package. Maintaining the high standard of previous editions, Joseph Lowery describes Dreamweaver in depth, offering hundreds of step-by-step examples, tips, cautionary notes and explanations of background technology.
The opening chapters offer a tour of Dreamweaver and show how to create and publish Web sites using the site management features. Next comes a guide to HTML, the code behind Web pages, which it is important to understand even if you mainly use Dreamweaver's visual tools. Chapters on advanced HTML focus on tables, forms and framesets. A valuable section on extending Dreamweaver covers insertable objects and Behaviours, complete with a guide to creating your own JavaScript Behaviours. The next section covers multimedia, with a particular focus on Dreamweaver's integration with Fireworks, Flash and Shockwave. There is also a guide to including RealMedia, QuickTime or Windows media in your Web pages. Towards the end of the book, a section on Dynamic HTML also covers style sheets, layers and Timelines. There is a brief look at XML, and the closing chapters cover Dreamweaver templates and team-authoring features.
This is a great book but there are a few caveats. It is not hugely different from the previous edition, which covered Dreamweaver 3. There is also no attempt to cover Dreamweaver Ultradev, which is the subject of a separate title in the Bible series, and if you want to work with technologies such as Javascript, XML or Active Server Pages, you will need additional resources. As a guide to Dreamweaver itself though, this book is hard to beat. The companion CD-ROM includes hundreds of Dreamweaver extensions, examples from the book and trial versions of Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash. --Tim Anderson
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