Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual

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Welcome to Dreamweaver CS3. This new version of the popular web design software offers a rich environment for building professional sites, with drag-and-drop simplicity, clean HTML code, and dynamic database-driven web site creation tools. Moreover, it's now integrated more tightly with Adobe's other products: Photoshop, InDesign, Flash, and their siblings. But with such sophisticated features, the software isn't simple.

So say hello to Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual, the fifth edition of this bestselling book by experienced web site trainer and author David McFarland. This book helps both first-time and experienced web designers bring stunning, interactive web sites to life. With jargon-free language and clear descriptions, this new edition addresses both beginners who need step-by-step guidance as well as long-time Dreamweaver users who need a handy reference to address the inner-workings of the program.

Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual teaches designers how to construct and manage web sites by examining web-page components and Dreamweaver's capabilities through "live examples". With a complete A-Z guide to designing, organizing, building and deploying a web site for those with no web design experience, this book: Takes you through the basics to advanced techniques to control the appearance of your web pages with CSS Shows you how to design dynamic database-driven web sites, from blogs to product catalogs, and from shopping carts to newsletter signup forms Teaches you how to master your web site, and manage thousands of pages effortlessly Witty and objective, Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual is a must for anyone who uses this highly popular program, from beginners to professionals. Altogether, it's the ultimate atlas for Dreamweaver CS3.

What Customers Say About Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual:

I was looking forward to this book but after spending some time with it I have to admit its structure just doesn't make any sense. If they had simply designed all the chapter as tutorials with the explanations strategically places through the hands on training, I believe the relationship would of been clearer. But for example so many chapters go on and on with this long winded explanations and history and abstract page samples, that ultimately made me feel rather frustrated as I simply wanted to work and learn simultaneously. Not read 42 pages of theory and a 'kinda how to' before ever actually getting to a hands on tutorial section.

The manual is a very detailed prescriptive how to guide for Dreamweaver. Page after page of instructions on how to do virtually anything possible in Dreamweaver. The book is well written and well organized that allows the reader to find what they need quickly. The instruction is just enough to complete the task but not so much that it blurs the issue.

My instructor required this for my webdesign class last year. I'm going to keep it short and sweet. This book is very informative and has the questions to everything you need to know about Dreamweaver. The one thing I don't like about the book is that it's a drag and it doesn't have any color to it. It has a few examples, but their in black and white so it makes it so boring to read.

Excellent walk-through book for a beginner. It's helped our new web editor immensely.Cindy SprolesChristian Devotions Ministries

I bought this book right at the end of my Dreamweaver class at a community college and it is fantastic. The only reason I didn't give this book 5 stars is that it has nothing about disjointed rollovers. For that I had to go back to my textbook, Garrick Chow's Dreamweaver CS3 which is otherwise a serviceable though somewhat minimal book.Other than the disjointed rollover thing, I have to say that the Dreamweaver software really opened up for me when I got this dauntingly and rewardingly giant tome.It is clear and logical in it's tutorials and explanations and that is so important for beginners. This book really knows it's stuff and knows what you need to know.