Your one-stop guide to six great Macromedia tools for building Web sites It?????s like a Web-site-in-a-book! First, there?????s some Web site insight to help you decide what you want your site to do. Then it?????s into the nitty-gritty of making it happen - building with Dreamweaver, adding animation with Flash, enabling collaboration with Contribute, using ColdFusion to access databases, and a whole lot more.

Discover how to

* Plan content for your site
* Use CSS styles
* Incorporate forms into your pages
* Beef up Flash movies with ActionScript
* Use queries in ColdFusion

Download: Macromedia Studio 8 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies 9.39 Mb
* Integrate all the Macromedia products

As any Flash developer worth his or her salt knows, you?????re not tapping all of the program?????s power unless you?????re taking advantage of its scripting language. Not to worry: With Flash 8?????s improved scripting language (which includes a visual interface!) and this project-based guide you don?????t have to be a master programmer to do so. In these pages best-selling authors Derek Franklin and Jobe Makar with Danny Patterson, Member of Team Macromedia Flash, use hands-on lessons and simple, step-by-step instructions to translate real-life activities into scripts, in the process demonstrating that scripting is something you already instinctively know how to do. To that end, the authors have provided methodologies and techniques for building nearly 40 real-life Flash 8 ActionScript projects, including sample games, wireless applications, Web sites, and more?????all of which will help you work faster and more efficiently. The companion CD contains all of the project files and images you?????ll need to complete the book?????s lessons.

Download: Macromedia Flash 8 ActionScript: Training from the Source 7.11 Mb

Nolan Hester has written more than a dozen books for Peachpit Press, including bestselling Visual QuickStart Guides on Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe Photoshop Album, and FileMaker, as well as Retouching Photos with Photoshop Elements 3: Visual QuickProject Guide. He now works as a freelance writer, editor, and Web consultant.

Download: Creating a Web Page in Dreamweaver 8: Visual QuickProject Guide 17.66 Mb

Tom Negrino has been working with Macs since 1984. As a longtime contributor to Macworld magazine, he?????s written about everything from upgrading your Mac to Web design and presentation software. He?????s authored more than two dozen computing-related books, including Macromedia Contribute 3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Keynote 2 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide, and co-authored with Dori Smith, JavaScript for the World Wide Web, Fifth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide.

Dori Smith has been programming for over 20 years. As a partner in Chalcedony Consulting, she does programming, training, writing, and Web design. Dori is also a contributing editor for NetProfessional magazine, is on their advisory board, and is a member of the Web Standards Project Steering Committee. She?????s also the author of Java 2 for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide.

Download: Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide 19.47 Mb

Need to take your Macromedia Dreamweaver skills to the next level? You don?????t have to be a programmer to build interactivity into your site. You just need Dreamweaver 8?????Macromedia?????s powerful new Web design and development tool?????access to a Web server and an application server, and a copy of Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide.

* Takes a visual, task-based approach to guiding you through advanced topics and applying what you learn
* Works like a reference book - you look up what you need and then get straight to work
* Concise, straightforward steps and explanations offer the fastest way to learn tasks and concepts
* Companion Web site includes sample files

This valuable reference picks up where the Visual QuickStart Guide leaves off with advanced step-by-step tutorials on working with servers, setting up database connections, using SQL, and building dynamic pages?????and that?????s just in the first half of the book! The book?????s second half includes clear, concise instructions on how to build dynamic forms and dynamic tables, create a search page for your site, and control access to your site with a user log-in and password.

You?????ll get real-world examples and detailed illustrations of how and when features should be put to use, including what?????s new in Dreamweaver 8: code-editing improvements such as the coding toolbar and code collapse, drag-and-drop integration of XML data, server-side transformations with XSLT, support for PHP 5 and ColdFusion MX 7, and more!

Download: Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide 11.31 Mb

Dreamweaver 8 Design and Construction by Marc Campbell
Publisher: O?????Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition (January 1, 2006)
352 pages; Language: English; ISBN: 0596101635

You?????re a beginner who wants to design a state-of-the-art family web site. You?????ve just started a new job, and you need to learn Dreamweaver fast. Or maybe you?????re a professional who?????s been using another program but is now switching to Macromedia?????s leading web design tool. Learning Dreamweaver 8 gets you up to speed, quickly and efficiently.

Straightforwardly practical, with speed as the by-word, this hands-on guide focuses on the best practices for constructing both interactive and static web sites. While explaining core concepts clearly and thoroughly, so that beginners have a solid conceptural and technical foundation, it cuts through the clutter that might slow down a beginner tackling a subject as vast as web design and a tool as robust as Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver 8 Design and Construction emphasizes learning by doing, with short, task-oriented chapters that demonstrate theory by presenting design solutions and explaining the principles that make them work. Plenty of screen shots, illustrations, and sample layouts accompany rapid prototyping techniques for site production.

Marc Campbell has been building web sites since 1997-for everything from comic book fan communities to state government portals and e-commerce applications. A Macromedia Certified Dreamweaver Developer and beta tester, he has taught web design to students at all levels and has written eight books on the subject.

Sidebars in Dreamweaver 8 Design and Construction allow readers to decide how deeply they want to delve into the subject. ???Quick Picks??? offer bottom-line recommendations for those who want to skip the general discussion, while ???Under the Hood??? sidebars provide more in-depth looks at particular topics for those who want more detail. Absolute beginner or faux debutante, you?????ll learn proven procedures for quickly building Dreamweaver sites.

Download: Dreamweaver 8 Design and Construction 7.44 Mb