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Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual


Insider's Guide to Designing and Constructing Striking Websites

cover"By using JavaScript and other technologies, websites today increasingly provide more sophisticated user experiences," observes David Sawyer MacFarland, author of the new book, "Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual". "With their greater responsiveness and more sophisticated user interfaces, these websites feel more like desktop applications."

MacFarland's latest publication updates his previous bestselling O'Reilly titles about Dreamweaver. With the recent release of Adobe's powerful web design program--Dreamweaver CS3--developers can do more than ever, notes MacFarland. Best of all, the upgraded program comes packed with exciting new design tools.

"The Spry JavaScript framework, for example, lets non-programmers add sophisticated interface elements like drop-down navigation menus, tabbed panels, and interactive data tables. My new book provides in-depth coverage on how to add Spry to a website, and equally as important, how to customize the Spry page elements to match the look and feel of an existing site's design," adds MacFarland.

Loaded with step-by-step instructions and lucid, easy-to-grasp explanations, MacFarland's guided tour of Dreamweaver CS3 covers:
* - Getting started -- from building your first site to putting it on the Web.
* - Gaining pinpoint control over design and layout with powerful CSS tools.
* - Adding interactivity with forms, new Spry tools, JavaScript, and animations.
* - Building database-driven Web sites without having to hire a team of geeks.

This one-stop Dreamweaver CS3 resource aims to boost the skills and knowledge of designers at every level, from novices to power users. MacFarland's book delivers tips and tricks from a veteran designer along with expert guidance on what looks good--and what looks dated--to spruce up existing websites or create dazzling new ones.

David Sawyer McFarland is the president of Sawyer McFarland Media Inc., a web development and training company located in Portland, Oregon. In addition, he teaches JavaScript programming, Flash, and web design at the University of California, Berkeley, the Center for Electronic Art, the Academy of Art College, and Ex'Pressions Center for New Media. He was formerly the webmaster at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center. David is also the author of "CSS: The Missing Manual."

coverDreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual
By David Sawyer McFarland
* Chapter 4: Introducing Cascading Style Sheets (PDF Format)

O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly Media has been a chronicler and catalyst of cutting-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.
About the Missing Manual series, the book that should have been in the box. Warm, witty, and jargon-free, Missing Manuals have enough clarity for the novice, and enough depth and detail for the power user.

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