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

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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). It's a major rewrite of "Foundation PHP for
Dreamweaver 8", and has six chapters devoted to working with Spry,
including one that shows you how to combine Spry with PHP to make an
accessible online gallery. Roughly 60% of the material in the book is
new. For more details, see my site:

http://foundationphp.com/egdwcs3/

It's also available as an eBook:

http://www.friendsofed.com/ebooks.html

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

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> 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

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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/

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>
> 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

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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/

[jlig]

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

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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/

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Just ordered it from Amazon! You da man Dave.

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

Martin Lang