Section 20.5. Where to Go, What to Do


20.5. Where to Go, What to Do

This humble tome offers one perspective about how to use Dreamweaver to design and build a Web site. It has introduced you to a wide variety of topics, most of which it has hardly exhausted, some of which it has only mentioned in passing. It does not claim to be the final authority on the subject of web design and construction. Any tome that does is not so humble.

If, after you've built a few sites with the methods presented here, you find yourself craving more, wondering what else is waiting for you, then congratulations are in order, because you're well on your way to becoming an advanced web designer. You might expand your horizons in the pages of the following volumes.

For an in-depth reference guide to Dreamweaver 8, explaining in great detail and with clarity the many features that this book omits for space considerations, you can do no better than Dreamweaver 8: The Missing Manual by David McFarland (Pogue Press). Macromedia's own Training from the Source series also comes highly regarded. Start with Macromedia Dreamweaver 8: Training from the Source by Khristine Annwn Page (Macromedia Press), and if you're interested in building dynamic, database-driven sites using server-side technology, move on to Macromedia 8 with ASP, ColdFusion, and PHP: Training from the Source by Jeffrey Bardzell (Macromedia Press).

In the area of usability and user-centered design, Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity by Jakob Nielsen (New Riders Press) is a modern classic, as is Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Second Edition by Steve Krug (New Riders Press).

If standards compliance is your thing, then be sure to have a look at Build Your Own Standards Compliant Website Using Dreamweaver 8 by Rachel Andrews (SitePoint).

For the coders among us, a wealth of material exists for your reference and delight. Not all of it is good, but the consistently praised Definitive series by O'Reilly hasn't earned its reputation by mere hype. Try Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Eric Meyer (O'Reilly), Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference, Second Edition by Danny Goodman (O'Reilly), HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition by Chuck Musciano and Bill Kennedy (O'Reilly), and JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition by David Flanagan (O'Reilly).

If a heavy-duty coding manual turns you off at first, and at the risk of becoming an honorary member of my own marketing department, it has been said that Web Design Garage by Marc Campbell (Prentice Hall PTR) succeeds at building a bridge between beginning and intermediate web design while having a jolly good time doing it.



Dreamweaver 8 Design and Construction
Dreamweaver 8 Design and Construction (OReilly Digital Studio)
ISBN: 0596101635
EAN: 2147483647
Year: N/A
Pages: 154
Authors: Marc Campbell

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