Aimed at Web developers who know the basics of Dreamweaver and want to take the next step, this work provides a guide to learning Dreamweaver MX 2004 tips, tricks, and best practices.

With its powerful combination of visual layout tools, application development features, and code editing support, Dreamweaver MX 2004 is sure to become your tool of choice for creating and managing Web sites. This book offers the key to all of its magic. Sure, you could wade your way through a thousand-page tome to learn the ins and outs of every Dreamweaver feature, but as a Web developer or designer focused on deadlines, details, and putting across an effective message, what you really need is somebody else to do that work for you: to dig up the time-saving tips and shortcuts that will get you to your destination fast. Lucky for you, authors Joseph Lowery and Angela C. Buraglia have done just that, drawing on their own vast Dreamweaver experience to deliver a book that's nothing but those cool sidebar tips. In the process, they cover all of Dreamweaver MX 2004's new features: built-in image-editing technology that lets you edit your images without leaving Dreamweaver, painless cross-browser development, and more.

In these pages, Flash wizards Capraro, McAlester, and several other experts draw on their own professional experience to offer 12 real-world projects that let readers explore Flash MX 2004 at their leisure. By working through the step-by-step tutorials, whose project files and code are on the accompanying CD, users will soon be finding their way around all of Flash MX 2004Us new features.

Annotation The hottest collection of cool tips and hidden secrets for the professional who needs Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 results FAST! Over 300 side bar tips that professionals will find beneficial. Killer tips to make them more efficient, and have more fun using Dreamweaver MX 2004. Written by Dreamweaver experts Joseph Lowery and Angela C. Buraglia.

* Teaches Web development using real world tutorials. * Approach to subject is no nonsense, wastes little time on history and unnecessary information; therefore it is very concise and results driven. * Covers vital Web development subjects such as Web standards principles and implementation. * Includes a useful set-up section to guide and get the reader up-and-running quickly and easily (the technology isn’t quite as easy to set up as ASP).

This outstanding team of authors shows you how easy it can be to create and maintain dynamic, powerful Web sites using Dreamweaver MX 2004. Our hands-on tutorials guide you step by step through building three complete Web sites: a personal site, a dynamic sports site complete with user preferences, and a configurable company Web site built from reusable components. Along the way, you will learn all the skills you need to work confidently with Dreamweaver MX 2004. You will also learn about Dreamweaver MX 2004's built-in support for ASP, ASP.NET, JavaServer™ pages, PHP, and ColdFusion® MX programming languages. What you will learn from this book This book will show you how to: Understand and manipulate the code Dreamweaver MX 2004 generates Create, implement, and modify Cascading Style Sheets Add dynamic effects with DHTML Apply authentication and authorization techniques to protect your sites from unauthorized users Store, retrieve, and display dynamic data Design your sites with a modular system Install and use Dreamweaver MX 2004 extensions Who is this book for? If you are new to Web development, this is the perfect guide to help you start creating attractive, functional Web sites quickly and easily using the Dreamweaver MX 2004 tool. If you have already done some Web site programming in the past but you’re new to Dreamweaver, this book will show you how to develop your sites with the skills you already have, but in far less time and with fewer bugs using Dreamweaver MX 2004. Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

* Teaches Web development using real world tutorials. * Approach to subject is no nonsense, wastes little time on history and unnecessary information; therefore it is very concise and results driven. * Covers vital Web development subjects such as Web standards principles and implementation. * Several authors are members of Team Macromedia and the Web Standars project.