Designed for intermediate Web designers and developers with no previous experience with programming or server-side technology. Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 with ASP, ColdFusion and PHP: Training from the Source has been fully-updated, not just for the latest version of Dreamweaver but for today's Web. It's now standards--compliant, with a site created using one of Dreamweaver's brand-new CSS templates, that includes Ajax elements in the dynamic site design. Users ready to take the next step and make their Web sites interactive will find the same easy-to-read, logical, well-constructed projects, but with a site based on the latest Web technology.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Just not very good...:
Bought this book for a class that taught the subject matter and was sorely disappointed in it. The book was oft times long winded in its discussions and tried to mix too much beginner information into its subject matter to be clearly a book for such a rather advanced subject matter. In the end it felt like I was not given enough training in server side scripting and like I wasted time and money on the class and the book. I hate to say this, but there are better books out there that can cover the... more info
Very Helpful Book Except......:
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 with ASP, ColdFusion, and PHP: Training from the Source I've used other Jeff Bardzell books before and found them very good for beginning code. The latest edition, covers Spry somewhat, which is helpful. And, as in the previous edition, Bardzell conducts tutorials to build an application in ASP, ColdFusion, and PHP for the fictious company Newland Tours. However, there are abundant code typos, which can be very difficult for beginners. The book should have an errata... more info
Essentially Worthless:
I found the book to be so superficial that it is essentially worthless to anyone who needs to use Dreamweaver CS3 dynamically. The book is well written and the tutorials are thoughtful but there is so little understanding of the material covered (server side scripting, XML, databases, AJAX, etc) that any designer who is asked to build a dynamic website will look to other sources. Use this book if you are already familiar with backend development. However, the tutorials presented are so limited in scope that... more info
the holy grail for DW and dynamic site creation:
This is truly the missing book that belongs on any up-and-coming web designer, or someone who would like to learn how to design dynamic pages. This book walks you through the necessary steps of static website creation and then beautifully aides you in the setup of a webserver and related technologies to run dynamic content. Then the reader is taken through all necessary steps to create asp, php, and colffusion pages. I have MANY books on php, mysql, asp and coldfusion but NONE are as useful as this. This... more info
