Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 is a professional HTML editor for designing, coding, and developing websites, web pages, and web applications.

Whether you enjoy the control of hand-coding HTML, or prefer to work in a visual editing environment, Dreamweaver provides you with helpful tools to enhance your web creation experience.
This free ebook introduces you to using Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 if you’re unfamiliar with any major aspect of it.The tutorials in this guide lead you through the process of creating a simple but functional website.

The visual editing features in Dreamweaver let you quickly create web pages without writing a line of code. You can view all your site elements or assets and drag them from an easy-to-use panel directly into a document.
You can streamline your development workflow by creating and editing images in Macromedia Fireworks or another graphics application, and then import them directly into Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver also provides tools that make it easy to add Flash assets to web pages.

Content:

Introduction to Dreamweaver
Part One of this book introduces you to Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, and includes installation information and a workspace overview. It also provides a list of available resources for learning Dreamweaver.
This part contains the following sections:

Introduction
Learning Dreamweaver
Dreamweaver Basics

Tutorials
Part Two of this book contains five basic tutorials that take you through the steps of building a web page. The web page you’ll create is the home page for Cafe Townsend, a fictional restaurant.
This part contains the following sections:

Tutorial: Setting Up Your Site and Project Files
Tutorial: Creating a Table-based Page Layout
Tutorial: Adding Content to Pages
Tutorial: Formatting Your Page with CSS
Tutorial: Publishing Your Site

Advanced Tutorials
Part Three of this book contains tutorials that introduce you to more advanced features in Dreamweaver. You do not need previous knowledge of HTML or other languages to complete these tutorials, but be aware that the tutorials in this part are more complex than the tutorials in the previous part.
This part contains the following sections:

Tutorial: Working with Code
Tutorial: Creating a CSS-based Page Layout
Tutorial: Displaying XML Data
Tutorial: Developing a Web Application

Appendices
Part Four of this book contains appendices that provide additional
information about concepts presented in previous sections.
This part contains the following sections:

Understanding Web Applications
Installing a Web Server
Setup for Sample ColdFusion Site
Setup for Sample ASP.NET Site
Setup for Sample ASP Site
Setup for Sample JSP Site
Setup for Sample PHP Site

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