Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Killer Tips [Paperback]

With its powerful combination of visual layout tools, application development features, and code editing support, Dreamweaver MX 2004 is sure to become your tool of choice for creating and managing Web sites. This book offers the key to all of its magic. Sure, you could wade your way through a thousand-page tome to learn the ins and outs of every Dreamweaver feature, but as a Web developer or designer focused on deadlines, details, and putting across an effective message, what you really need is somebody else to do that work for you: to dig up the time-saving tips and shortcuts that will get you to your destination fast. Lucky for you, authors Joseph Lowery and Angela C. Buraglia have done just that, drawing on their own vast Dreamweaver experience to deliver a book that's nothing but those cool sidebar tips. In the process, they cover all of Dreamweaver MX 2004's new features: built-in image-editing technology that lets you edit your images without leaving Dreamweaver, painless cross-browser development, and more.

Joseph Lowery is the author of Joseph Lowery's Beyond Dreamweaver and the co-author of a forthcoming book titled Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Web Application Recipes (New Riders) as well as the Dreamweaver MX Bible and the Fireworks MX Bible (both John Wiley & Sons). His books are international bestsellers, having sold more than 300,000 copies worldwide in 9 different languages. As a programmer, Joseph contributed two extensions to the latest release of Fireworks MX. He also is a consultant and trainer and has presented at Seybold in both Boston and San Francisco, Macromedia UCON in the United States and Europe, ThunderLizard's Web World, and other locations around the globe¿ranging from New Zealand to Las Vegas. In partnership with Edoardo Zubler, Joseph developed FlashBang!¿Flash navigation for Dreamweaver users.

Angela C. Buraglia used to be a makeup artist for independent film, but she needed a career that would allow her to work from home and raise her son. Although she intended only to be a web developer, life's path has led her to become that and more. She is perhaps best known as the founder of DreamweaverFAQ.com, a site dedicated to serving the Dreamweaver community and which she continues to run today with Daniel Short. In addition to this book, she is a co-author of Dreamweaver MX 2004 Magic and contributing author to the previous edition (New Riders), the lead technical editor for the Dreamweaver MX Bible (John Wiley & Sons) and contributing author to ColdFusion MX Web Application Construction Kit (Macromedia Press).

Angela's future plans are to continue developing DreamweaverFAQ.com, to build and sell Dreamweaver extensions, to give presentations at conferences, and to continue with her involvement in Cartweaver. Long gone are the days of applying makeup; now Angela applies behaviors and CSS to websites and¿most importantly¿is home with her little boy.