With over 3 million users worldwide, Adobe's Dreamweaver is the most popular web development software in the world, and it just took another step forward with CS3, the new version released in 2007. Having come a long way from it's humble beginnings as a as a simple web design tool, CS3 allows you to rapidly put together standards compliant web sites and dynamic web sites with server-side languages and Ajax, and much more. To complement this great new application, David Powers has written the ultimate guide to it—The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 teaches you everything you need to know about the application, from setting up your development environment environment to publishing your sites and applications on the web, and everything in between.

• Takes you through your development environment set up
• Covers everything you need to create both standards compliant web sutes, and dynamic web applications
• Teaches several real world techniques using a series of step by step tutorials

Do you want to create a sophisticated Web site that's easy to develop and maintain Whether you're a beginner or an experienced Web developer, this friendly guide shows you how to utilize Dreamweaver's newest enhancements to build and manage state-of-the-art, professional Web sites quickly and easily.


Set up your site and create new pages
Work with text, graphics, and links
Define and apply styles using CSS
Add audio, video, and Flash® files to your site
Use Dreamweaver's database features

Dreamweaver CS3, now included as part of Adobe's Creative Suite 3, is the leading professional Web design and development application in the market, and is a must-have tool for any Web designer or developer. Dreamweaver CS3 offers new CSS layouts, a unified CSS panel, and CSS visualization tools that let users create interactive Web sites without having to delve into code. Dreamweaver users can now create dynamic interfaces using the Spry framwork for Ajax. (Spry is 99% HTML, so it's accessible to both designers and developers). Spry widgets (pre-built user interface components) let users quickly add common user interface components to Web pages. Each chapter in this full-color book contains a project that builds upon the reader's growing knowledge of Dreamweaver, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce the most important skills. Readers will learn how to customize a Dreamweaver workspace, apply cascading style sheets, enter headline and body text, insert graphics and rollovers, and add links to a page. They'll also learn how to add interactive elements to their site, such as behaviors, effects, and Flash video; add new code or code snippets; and publish their finished site to the Web.

What Is Dreamweaver 8?

At its roots, Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 is a WYSIWIG (what you see is what you get) XHTML generator. This means if you change something on the screen inside Dreamweaver 8, it will show you the results instantly and write the proper code for you. In contrast, if you were to code the XHTML by hand in a non-WYSIWIG editor, you would have to write the code and then view the results from inside a Web browser, write more code, and check again. The instant feedback of a live design environment such as Dreamweaver 8 speeds up your workflow tremendously, because you can see whether you like the results while you are working.

This is the definitive exam study guide that will help you review what
you need to know to pass the Certified Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Developer
Exam. Designed specifically to simplify exam preparation for intermediate
to advanced Dreamweaver developers, each subject is presented in clear
and direct language, with useful and well-explained code examples.
- Design basics
- Library items and extensions
- Team collaboration
- Layers and tables in page layout