Dreamweaver MX / Fireworks MX Savvy

  • 12h 36m
  • Christian Crumlish
  • Sybex
  • 2002

Savvy--n. Practical know-how.

Dreamweaver MX/Fireworks MX Savvy is a thorough, in-depth resource for every user of Macromedia's powerful web publishing tools. Heading up a team of experienced Web professionals, best-selling author Christian Crumlish teaches you everything from best-practices methodology to the nitty gritty of such common tasks as: migrating sites to Dreamweaver, optimizing images for Web use, creating dynamic content, building web applications, administering your site, and more.

Work your way through from Chapter 1 to Chapter 32, or jump right to the information you need most to improve your productivity and get professional results. Whether you're a Web designer or developer, a graphic designer or a project manager, this book will make you a Dreamweaver and Fireworks expert.Coverage includes:

Planning Your Web Project: using the Site Definition Wizard; using templates, assets, and libraries; setting up a remote server; and customizing and extending Dreamweaver.

Creating and Optimizing Graphics: roundtrip graphics editing, working with bitmaps and vectors, creating navigation objects, batch-processing images, and optimizing images for faster page loading.

Designing Web Pages: using tables, layers, and style sheets; using image placeholders; taking advantage of Dreamweaver's new CSS 2.0 support; building a navigation interface; and adding interactive behaviors.

Building Database-Backed Web Apps: assembling forms from front to back; choosing from the ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, ColdFusion, and PHP/MySQL server models; working with dynamic data; and creating Web applications.

Handing Over a Finished Project: validating and testing your site, going live, and setting up backend administration functionality to manage a site over the long term.

Hands On tutorials let you apply your new knowledge to complex real-world projects, mastering the skills your own Web sites demand. A full-color section illustrates color-specific techniques.

About the Author

Christian Crumlish is a writer, publisher, web consultant, and artist. The author of over 15 computer books, including several Sybex titles, he has been designing and developing websites since 1994 and using Dreamweaver since version 2.0. He has taught web design at the university level, and he helped create the Internet Certification Program at San Jose State University.

In this Book

  • Dreamweaver MX/ Fireworks MX Savvy
  • Introduction
  • Planning and Preparing for a Web Project
  • Web Pages Deconstructed
  • Setting Up Your Workspace and Your Site
  • Saving Labor with Templates and Libraries
  • Getting into Fireworks
  • Adding Strokes, Fills, and Live Effects
  • Working With Vectors
  • Working with Bitmaps
  • Designing Navigation Objects
  • Slicing, Optimizing, and Exporting Images
  • Page Layout with Tables and Layers
  • Inserting and Formatting Text Content
  • Working with Graphics
  • Interactivity with Framesets and Frames
  • Cascading Style Sheets
  • Making and Maintaining Hyperlinks
  • Adding Multimedia
  • Rollovers, Navigation Bars, and Jump Menus
  • Color: Dreamweaver MX and Fireworks MX Color Tutorials
  • Behavioral Science
  • Going Interactive with Forms
  • Building an E-Commerce Site
  • Building Web Applications
  • Handcrafting Your Code
  • Database Connectivity
  • Working with ColdFusion
  • Working with XML and XHTML
  • Working with Emerging Technologies—Web Services and .NET
  • Setting Up Administration Behind a Site
  • Checking Browser Compatibility
  • Going Live or Delivering the Site
  • Administering the Site
  • Customizing and Extending Dreamweaver
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