Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something — and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up, and you will find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 150 Dreamweaver CS4 tasks. Each task-based spread covers a single technique, sure to help you get up and running on Dreamweaver CS4 in no time.
You will learn to:
- Design and preview a Web page
Format text and resize images
Build fillable Web-based forms
Create a rollover image
Open linked pages in new windows
Work with cascading style sheets
Upload pages and test your site
- Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks
Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task
Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules
Janine Warner is a best-selling author, speaker, and Internet consultant. Since 1995, she has written and coauthored more than a dozen books about the Internet, including
Dreamweaver CS4 For Dummies and
Web Sites Do-It-Yourself For Dummies.
She is also the host of a series of training videos on Dreamweaver for Total Training. Her first video on Web design won her two industry awards, and excerpts of her videos are featured at both Microsoft.com and Adobe.com.
Janine is an award-winning journalist, and her articles and columns have appeared in a variety of publications, including
The Miami Herald, Shape Magazine, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning
Point Reyes Light newspaper. She also writes a regular column about Dreamweaver for
Layers Magazine.
Janine is a popular speaker at conferences and events throughout the United States and abroad, and she has taught online journalism courses at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and the University of Miami.
Warner has extensive Internet experience working on large and small Web sites. From 1994 to 1998, she ran Visiontec Communications, a Web design business in northern California, where she worked for a diverse group of clients including Levi Strauss & Co., AirTouch International, and many other small and medium-size businesses.
In 1998, she joined
The Miami Herald as its online managing editor. A year later, she was promoted to director of new media and managed a team of designers, programmers, journalists, marketing, and sales staff. She left that position to serve as director of Latin American operations for CNET Networks, an international technology media company. Warner earned a degree in journalism and Spanish from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and spent the first several years of her career in northern California as a reporter and editor.
Since 2001, Janine has run her own business as a writer, speaker, and consultant. She lives and works with her husband in Los Angeles. To learn more, visit www.jcwarner.com or www.digitalfamily.com.
