Dreamweaver CS5 All-in-One For Dummies (For Dummies (Computers)) at Dominant Systems Book Store

Everything Web designers need to build sites with Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver is the leading Web site creation tool, with 90 percent of the market share. The nine minibooks that make up this guide cover getting started with Dreamweaver CS5, creating and publishing great sites, making pages dynamic, building Web applications, and much more, including all the upgrades in the newest version.

Dreamweaver is the gold standard for Web site development software; this complete reference covers what both beginners and intermediate-level users need to know to make the most of newest release and create professional-quality sites
Nine minibooks cover getting started, mastering Dreamweaver basics, working like a pro, energizing your site, publishing your site, working collaboratively, building Web applications, making pages dynamic, and developing applications rapidly
Teaches how to customize the workspace; understand the Panels and Properties Inspector; plan, design, and manage your site; work with text and graphics; add Flash, movies, and sound; work with Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript, and Ajax, connect to a database, and much more

Dreamweaver CS5 All-in-One For Dummies gives Web designers essential information for creating, managing, and maintaining all types of Web sites.

Customer Reviews & Comments
I've been using Dreamweaver for professional web sites and front-end web development since version 4.1 (before Adobe acquired Macromedia). Having used various iterations of the software including v8, CS3 and now CS5, I was a little skeptical about getting a "for Dummies" book. After all, i use the software almost daily and have made the transition to CS5 painlessly. However, after spending time with this book, it's clear there's a lot I've missed. This book is well organized and easy to read. I'm no "dummy" and this is a great resource for those of us just getting into CS5 and for those who are using DW for the first time. The "I am so glad I have this book" moment came when a client asked me to take over their website and make it XHTML compliant. After looking at the code, I realized their last designer used HTML markup for everything and didn't use CSS at all. My challenge was to find an efficient way to convert the pages from HTML to XHTML. At the end of Book IV, Chapter 4 is information about a Command that does just that. Whew! Had I not had this book, I'd be using find/replace for days. Having an 800 page book by my side is great for discovering useful DW features that save me time and my clients' money. For example, I read in Book II "Mastering the Basics" that there's a Paste Special command that allows me to strip out text from sources like Word. Again, another time-saving feature I would not have discovered on my own. Additionally, learning about DW's preview for mobile devices is going to become critical for me as clients insist their pages look good on smart phones. I've seen some of Sue Jenkins' video training and enjoy her teaching style immensely. Having her name on the cover was reassuring and her personality and teaching style come through perfectly in print. Sue is as professional a designer as she is an excellent teacher. There aren't many people that are career professionals and patient teachers. Her co-author, Richard Wagner, has a different style and handles the job of explaining the technical and programming-focused chapters of this book to non-programmers very well. While he may not be as friendly as Sue, he is just as effective and he definitely knows his stuff. I have an upcoming project where I will benefit directly from his lessons in Books VII and VIII. I can spend a little less on a dedicated programmer by setting up a couple databases and coding some interactive forms to handle the data myself. Was it worth the cost of the book and the time reading it? Absolutely.

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