Description

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 it's humble beginnings as a 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 it—The 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

 

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Dreamweaver CS3—Your 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