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Web Development

Web Design On A Shoestring

With the struggling US economy, many businesses have had to implement steps to curb expenses and pinch pennies. One of the first areas to feel these cutbacks is the web site design and development group. Employees have been asked to fill roles previously held by other employees due to staff reductions. At the same time, these remaining employees are expected to execute robust and efficient mechanisms for their corporate web sites on a tight or non-existent budget. Developers and designers are looking for shortcut tools to get there. It's all about getting more bang for the buck. Web design on a Shoestring is the tool these web site developers and designers need. It reveals all sorts of free or inexpensive resources that are available but unknown. More specifically, Carrie Bickner shows you how any individual can do the things a team of web professionals are often brought in to do. Learn how to create a pennywise plan so that you avoid being nickled and dimed to death later. Find out the best ways to test your web sites efficiencies and functionalities. Understand the most effective content management systems, and the commercial products to use or avoid - all with no dollars being spent. Read More
Web Development

Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization

There's a time bomb on the web: user patience. It starts ticking each time someone opens one of your pages. You only have a few seconds to get compelling content onto the screen. Fail, and you can kiss your customers and profits goodbye.

You can't count on fast connections either. Most of your customers are still sucking content through a 56K straw. You have to serve up greased lightning or they'll bail. That's why you picked up this book. In it you'll learn how to cut file sizes in half. You'll trim (X)HTML, CSS, graphics, JavaScript, multimedia, and bandwidth costs. Real-world examples illustrate techniques with before and after code and percentage savings. After reading this book, you'll know how to make your pages literally "pop" onto the screen.

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DreamWeaver

Dreamweaver MX 2004 Magic

A compilation of 13 real world projects.

Project 4 (mine - Brad Halstead) deals with creating a disjointed navigational system that is XHTML compliant and Accessible. The technique takes advantage of Dreamweaver MX's template technology, specifically repeating regions, parameters and editable regions.

One of the criteria for the project is that it must work in Macromedia Contribute. Since Macromedia Contribute doesn't support accessible hyperlink insertion, I had to develop a method of maintaining the specs for the disjointed nav system.

This project was alot of fun to write and I hope you enjoy it too.

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Design

Dreamweaver MX Templates

Harness the power of Templates in Dreamweaver MX!

With Macromedia's release of Dreamweaver MX, the functionality and power of templates is greatly enhanced. In "Dreamweaver MX Templates," the authors provide an in-depth examination of the template functionality, along with Dreamweaver's other reusable design elements: library items and snippets. This examination is cast in the context of the development of a web site for a fictitious company.

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Beginners

Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Databases

Are you ready to move beyond creating static sites into developing dynamic sites using Dreamweaver? Then this is the book for you. The book will help you understand databases, configure your workspace and servers, and build database connections. Later on in the book you will find step-by-step instructions to create two applications. Read More
Beginners

The Dreamweaver Developer's Instant Troubleshooter

This book will answer all of your Dreamweaver questions. Each chapter focuses on a particular area of Dreamweaver MX development, looks at the questions you are likely to have, and provides solutions. Whether you're having problems with setting up IIS to test your ASP pages, or you have a CSS quandary that you just can't get your head around, this is the book for you.

Table of contents:
Chapter 1: Setting Up Site Definitions
Chapter 2: Databases and Connections
Chapter 3: Setting Up IIS for HTML, ASP, or PHP
Chapter 4: Apache and Windows
Chapter 5: Apache and PHP Setup on Linux
Chapter 6: MySQL Setup
Chapter 7: CSS
Chapter 8: Templates
Chapter 9: Web Standards
Chapter 10: Creating Flexible Layouts
Chapter 11: Top PHP Questions
Chapter 12: Top ASP Questions
Chapter 13: Top ASP.NET Questions

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CSS

Cascading Style Sheets: The Designer's Edge™

CSS is finally supported by all modern web browsers, empowering Web designers to do what they've been hungering to do for years: control layout more precisely, use color more effectively, and expand typographic options beyond the frustrating limitations of the past. So where to begin? Where can you get design-focused instruction on CSS while learning the technical details?

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Web Development

Designing With Web Standards

You code. And code. And code. You build only to rebuild. You focus on making your site compatible with almost every browser or wireless device ever put out there. Then along comes a new device or a new browser, and you start all over again. You can get off the merry-go-round.It's time to stop living in the past and get away from the days of spaghetti code, insanely nested table layouts, tags, and other redundancies that double and triple the bandwidth of even the simplest sites. Instead, it's time for forward compatibility.

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Advanced

DWMX Dynamic Applications: Advanced Training From the Source

Through the graphics-intensive, self-paced tutorials that form the heart of this popular series, Bardzell takes you through everything you need to know to start designing dynamic, database-driven sites using the powerful new tools available in Macromedia Dreamweaver MX. Read More
DreamWeaver

Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips

When you're looking for a quick way to accomplish a task, whether you search online or in computer books, you're looking for tips!

This book has almost 300 tips showing you how to use Dreamweaver more efficiently.

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