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Full-color, step-by-step instructions demonstrate how to make the most of Macromedia Dreamweaver when formatting and styling text, creating Web-based forms and pages with frames, maintaining a Web site, and building database-driven sites Fully updated for the latest version of Dreamweaver, coverage includes applying style sheets, using dynamic HTML, publishing a Web site, and using library items and templates to create robust Web sites Features jargon-free instructions, more than 500 color screen shots, practical examples and advice, and a full measure of information that goes beyond the basics No programming or HTML experience required-users learn to create Web pages without writing code

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"Dreamwaver 8 combines visual layout tools with robust text-based HTML editing features for the creation, management, and maintenance of Web sites." P. [xiii].

Demonstrates intermediate-level Web development techniques, covering dynamic sites, image maps, interactive forms, animations, multimedia, CGI scripts, and Dynamic HTML, XML and SMIL.

There are a lot of books out there covering CSS and HTML, but this one stands out from the crowd by combining all the best aspects of reference and tutorial books — it teaches everything you need to know to design great web sites, and moves at a fast pace, eschewing unnecessary theory and obscure details. It is designed so that any level of web designer or developer will find this to be an essential guide. It teaches the basics of CSS and HTML before quickly moving on to cover in depth all of the essential areas of web design, including forms, tables, typography, layout, browser quirks and more.

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Nine minibooks, filling nearly 800 pages, take you beyond Dreamweaver basics, giving you the know-how and hands-on techniques necessary to create state-of-the-art Web sites. You'll master Dreamweaver basics, such as laying out pages, adding content to pages, and working with code; develop Web applications and databases; make pages dynamic; and learn to use Dreamweaver with Contribute. Order your copy of this reference to the popular software application today.

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