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Recommend a Good Dreamweaver and HTML Book
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I love Web Design in a Nutshell by O'Reilly Books. It's an amazing HTML primer.
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AHHHH, i was trying to remember that website, great tutorials!tspier2 said:
@dicecca112, i got the Dreamweaver MX 2004 Bible by Joseph W. Lowery. It's packed with about 1200 pages of info, but I paid $50. at Barnes and Noble. I'm on page 39 now
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Well I have Dreamweaver 8 through school, so my advisor recommended the O'Rielly book that Elif recommended and actually Dreamweaver for Dummies http://amazon.com/gp/amabot/?pf_rd_..._m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1Z9FAJ7C5BP72J3ZM09S
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Great price and they have always published pretty detailed books. Dreamweaver 8?? Hmm, got to try that.dicecca112 said:
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long time users of Dreaweaver
hi'
since I got it on version 2, I followed it all the way to have now the 8.02
and I'm really at ease with it, working with Fireworks8 and webstyle4, it's a real pleasure to build pages with this soft team
so, I guess that I don't need any book to use it the way I'm used to
i686
hi'
since I got it on version 2, I followed it all the way to have now the 8.02
and I'm really at ease with it, working with Fireworks8 and webstyle4, it's a real pleasure to build pages with this soft team
so, I guess that I don't need any book to use it the way I'm used to
i686
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I <3 PS PAd as my HTML/PHP/C/Python/Ruby editor of choice.
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Dreamweaver 8-The Missing Manual; Dreamweaver 8 Design and Construction; and Dreamweaver 8 for Dummies are all good books on Dreamweaver. PM me for more information.
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kayson said:
The WYSIWYG editor in DW has its place. For instance, when you have >2000 lines of code in a page, it's nice to merely select the item you're looking for in the design pane and have the relevant code highlighted in the code pane.
CSS implementation via the tool is much faster than hand coding. You can easily design complex stylesheets in a single interface and immediately see the effects of your changes, allowing for incremental changes without complex and time-consuming calculations (CS3's CSS implementation is much better than 8, FWIW). Color hexadecimal values are defined natively via the GUI, eliminating the need to toggle between applications.
Also, certain server-side code (db insert, edit, delete; show region, repeat region) generated by DW is fairly compact and elegant. Implementation of these common behaviors can be done in a small fraction of the time required to do the same thing by hand. The code is then easily modified using the very good code editor in DW, thus maximizing productivity.
We had several hard-core hand coders on staff who I required to learn and use DW. After they learned to properly use the tool, their productivity (and our profitability) increased by nearly 30%. They now swear by the tool.
Make sure to install the 8.02 updater. It allows DW to create much better server-side code and improved CSS.
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