Win a copy of Dreamweaver MX 2004 Design Projects

Knowing how much you enjoy their books, our contacts over at friends of ED have very kindly provided us with five copies of their latest book ­– Dreamweaver MX 2004 Design Projects – to give away. 

The authors will be well known to DMXzone regulars as the book has brought together Rachel Andrew, Craig Grannell, Allan Kent and Christopher Schmitt together in one volume. The book takes the form of a collection of four case studies, each based around a common web archetype. 

Christopher opens the book with an entertainment/fan site project, Allan is next up with a news portal that makes use of his beloved PHP, Craig comes third with an external facing corporate website and Rachel wraps up the show by building an intranet site based on Access and ASP.

By looking at the projects from inception to delivery the authors look at the profiles of different audiences, consider appropriate designs and technology choices and then show how to implement the site using Dreamweaver MX 2004 to build standards compliant sites. 

To provide some insight into the style of the book and show just how good it is, friends of ED have given DMXzone an exclusive extract (see attached PDF) from Allan's news portal study.

This time we're going to split our competition over 2 days – on Wednesday and Friday we'll be posting small snippets of our extract, together with a very simple question, on DMXzone. Send both answers in the e-mail link provided in Friday's post to be in the virtual hat.

Winners to be announced on October 7th.

To purchase Dreamweaver MX 2004 Design Projects, without waiting for the competition results, visit Amazon >>

Ian Blackham

Ian BlackhamFollowing a degree in Chemistry and a doctorate in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Ian spent several years wrestling with acronyms in industrial R&D (SEM with a side order of EDS, AFM and TEM augmented with a topping of XPS and SIMS and yet more SEM and TEM).

Feeling that he needed a career with more terminology but less high voltages, Ian became a technical/commissioning editor with Wrox Press working on books as diverse as Beg VB Application Development and Professional Java Security. After Wrox's dissolution and a few short term assignments Ian became content manager at DMXzone.

Ian is a refugee from the industrial Black Country having slipped across the border to live in Birmingham. In his spare time he helps out with the website of a local history society, tries to makes sure he does what his wife Kate says, and worries that the little 'un Noah is already more grown up than he is.

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