ANN: The Essential Guide to DW CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP

Just arrived here - and it is thrilling as a new Rebus. OK, less crime,
but enlightening enough :)

Martin Lang

Just ordered it from Amazon! You da man Dave.

jlig wrote:
> David, I just read thru the sample chapter 7 "Building Site Navigation with the
> Spry Menu bar".
> - Finally a Spry resource that is friendly , thorough and easy to follow
> along.
> - I especially like your honest comments in the "Mixed Blessing" section.

Glad you found it useful. I felt it was essential to present a balanced
view of Spry widgets, rather than giving a starry-eyed one.

> Trying to adjust the Tab Colors, Fonts, CSS page sizes, margins, borders, etc
> is a bit of a nightmare for me. I know it is just a matter of learning, but it
> would help to have resources like yours that take all of the practical
> considerations into mind for end-users.

It is quite easy to do simple things with CSS, but it's very powerful,
and has a long learning curve. Keep at it, and you'll get there in the end.

> ps: How about a similiar new resource: "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver
> CS3 with ADDT, SPRY, CSS, AJAX and PHP / ColdFusion" ...?

I'm not a big fan of ADDT (Adobe knows my opinions, because I have told
them directly). I would like to see how ADDT develops before committing
to writing about it. As for ColdFusion, I experimented with it a long
time ago, but decided I preferred to improve my knowledge of PHP before
branching out into other fields.

--
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3" (friends of ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

David, I just read thru the sample chapter 7 "Building Site Navigation with the Spry Menu bar".
- Finally a Spry resource that is friendly , thorough and easy to follow along.
- I especially like your honest comments in the "Mixed Blessing" section.

My experience thus far with Spry is as follows: I find that the new Spry items are very exciting and easy to "drop on the page" but that is about the end of their practical use for me.

Once I start trying to make the Font's bigger, or colors different, or add dynamic content, or target links, etc I end up messing up my whole page.
For example, I added a Spry Tab set to my page, added all of my needed Tabs, changed their names, added ADDT dynamic data and have a functioning Insert/Update page. But this is where it stops.

Trying to adjust the Tab Colors, Fonts, CSS page sizes, margins, borders, etc is a bit of a nightmare for me. I know it is just a matter of learning, but it would help to have resources like yours that take all of the practical considerations into mind for end-users.

I look forward to gleaning some real practical step-by-step help in your book.

ps: How about a similiar new resource: "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with ADDT, SPRY, CSS, AJAX and PHP / ColdFusion" ...?

Thanks again,
Jerry

Dave Buchholz wrote:
> have had a quick look through already
> and as always am impressed with your work.

Thanks, Dave. I got my hands on a printed copy for the first time myself
today. Must say, it looks good to me too, but then I'm biased. ;-)

--
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3" (friends of ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

>
> It's also available as an eBook:
>
> http://www.friendsofed.com/ebooks.html
>


David,

got the eBook yesterday and have a hard copy on order through your affiliate
link to amazon.co.uk, have had a quick look through already and as always am
impressed with your work.

Thanks,

--
Dave Buchholz
I-CRE8
www.i-cre8.co.uk
Skype ID: I-CRE8

John R. Lenz wrote:
> The book arrived yesterday and I'm enjoying it. The print design is
> improved over the dw 8 book.

Thanks for the quick feedback, John. I haven't received my copies yet.
It takes a while for them to get across to this side of the Atlantic. :(

> The php/mysql 60% of the book is golden.
>
> I'm glad I purchased it and I'm sure you will sell many of them for this
> type of genre.

That's great to know. I certainly hope it will sell. A lot of blood,
sweat, and tears went into its creation.

--
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3" (friends of ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

> My latest book, "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax,
> and PHP", has just been published, and is now shipping from Amazon.com
> (and possibly other places).

David,

The book arrived yesterday and I'm enjoying it. The print design is
improved over the dw 8 book.

The php/mysql 60% of the book is golden.

I'm glad I purchased it and I'm sure you will sell many of them for this
type of genre.

Good luck,

-John