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Inside Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 (Inside)
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by Sean Nicholson
Sales Rank: 1667158
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Paperback: 440 pages
Publisher: Waite Group Press; 1st edition September 7, 2001
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735711070
ISBN-13: 978-0735711075
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.4 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Book Description
No other book is positioned to perform for the intermediate-through-advanced user market like Inside UltraDev 4. Each chapter first provides a detailed description of the chapter topic including call-outs that alert the reader to potential pitfalls. This discussion is followed by a step-by-step exercise, during which the reader will construct an element of a Website based on the chapter topic. The final section of each chapter focuses specifically on technical aspects. These discussions range from the detailed analysis of specific code to the troubleshooting of common database connectivity issues and provide advanced users with the ability to extend the results of the exercises. The exercises in each chapter come together to form a complete project that constructs a fully-functional Website.
Book Info
An in-depth guide to Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 Web development software. Shows how to connect a Web site to a database, covering such technologies as Active Server Pages, ColdFusion, and Java Server Pages. Features screen shots, examples, and other helpful illustrations. Softcover.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This book is a great companion to New Riders' other Dreamweaver text, Inside Dreamweaver 4. (Buy that one, too!) While it devotes a chapter to basic page design in case the reader doesn't own a book on design, it doesn't retread the contents of the other volume. Nor does it attempt to be everything to everyone. Instead, this text focuses on what sets Dreamweaver Ultradev apart from the basic version of Dreamweaver (and from other web page design tools): its ability to create data-driven web pages. Author Nicholson takes the reader through the base foundation one needs to undertake the building of a "live" web site, and then guides us step by step through a practical tutorial that builds upon each acquired skill. The tips in this book are worth the price alone. I find myself making big read asterisks in the margin next to most of them. Like its companion volume, and other New Riders books, this book does not take a "cookie cutter" approach. Mr. Nicholson is not afraid to say that a certain feature doesn't always work well and may require a workaround (which he gives you). Both books present Dreamweaver in the context of best practices in web page design and application development, so you not only learn the tool you're reading about; you learn solid principles of good design. Yes, the book has some minor mistakes, for which the author has courteously provided errata on the companion website.... Frankly, I know of NO computer book that doesn't have some mistakes, and the problems I encountered in Chapter 8 of this book only made my troubleshooting skills stronger. Of course, if you don't have the time to create the files from scratch (or simply don't want to), you can download the files from the web site. But you're short-changing yourself if you don't try creating the pages yourself, because you will learn some good design tips and Dreamweaver shortcuts. Don't be mislead to think that you won't need to touch any code if you use Dreamweaver Ultradev, or even the regular version of Dreamweaver. The product is not designed to shield you from coding completely. A little (or a lot of) scripting knowledge can never hurt. I can't say enough good things about this book. I have seen other, more voluminous texts that aren't nearly as useful or direct in their approach.
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