This book/CD-ROM package, presented in an 11x8.5<"> format, provides 13 real-world projects that demonstrate how to speed up the web design process, add functionality to web pages, and allow a web site to communicate with a database using Dreamweaver MX. Each project contains step-by-step instructions, succinct explanations, screen capture illustration steps, and customization information. Readers are assumed to be familiar with Dreamweaver or another web authoring application. Buraglia is editor or coauthor of several books on computer software and is active in the Dreamweaver community. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
After six years as an independent film makeup artist, Angela C. Buraglia realized she wanted a career that would allow her to start a family and stay home with her husband and child. In an effort to give back to the Macromedia Dreamweaver newsgroup community that helped and encouraged her in her new career, she founded DreamweaverFAQ.com. Although she only intended to be a web developer, life's path has led her to become that and more. In addition to her contribution to this book, Angela is the Lead Technical Editor for the Dreamweaver MX Bible (Wiley Publishing, formerly Hungry Minds) and Contributing Author to ColdFusion MX Web Application Construction Kit (Macromedia Press). Currently, she is also a Team Macromedia volunteer for Dreamweaver. Angela's future plans are to continue developing DreamweaverFAQ.com, to build and sell Dreamweaver extensions, to give presentations at conferences, and perhaps to become involved in new book projects. Long gone are the days of applying makeup; now Angela applies Behaviors and CSS to web sites - and most importantly - is home with her little boy.
Donna Casey is a designer, developer and instructor with over 8 years of experience working on web & CD-ROM based projects for corporations such as AirTouch Cellular, Macromedia, Palm Computing, Verizon Wireless, and Aeris.net. Donna is a painter/sculptor with a Fine Arts degree and brings real-world design & production expertise to teaching web design and development. Her website (www.n8vision.com) was featured in the Fireworks 3 Bible. She has been a featured designer on Macromedia's website as well as a speaker at Macromedia's EUCON (Paris) and WebBoston and CNETBuilder (New Orleans). As an experienced instructor Donna has also authored the Intermediate Dreamweaver4 and Fireworks 4 Training CDs for Lynda.com, and contributed to the Fireworks F/X & Design book.
Josh Cavalier is the founder and director of Interactive Fun!, a digital media solutions and training firm. He has been in the print/multimedia/web design industry for over ten years, and has worked in various digital media fields including medical visualization, digital photography and printing. Prior to starting Interactive Fun!, Josh was Art Director for Handshaw, a computer based training company. There he specialized in interface design, digital video, print and audio production. Josh has a BFA in Medical Illustration from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has appeared in People magazine describing his method of historical digital photography. This method was used with a project for the Charlotte Museum of History to reconstruct the likeness of one of the city's founders, Hezekiah Alexander.
Matthew David's most recent publications include Flash MX Magic (New Riders), Inside Flash MX, Flash 5 Magic, Inside Dreamweaver 4, Flash 5: Visual FX, Web Publishing Bible and The Dreamweaver Bible. Currently, Matthew is working on a Flash MX Games book and writes articles for Element K Journal's Macromedia Solutions magazine, Inside Project Management and Multimedia: Solutions and Design magazines. You can also see him popping up in many online magazines, such as Sitepoint.com, Windowatch.com, UDzone.com and DevX.com. He is available as a freelance consultant. Examples of his work can be found at his web site www.matthewdavid.ws, or you can email him directly at mdavid@email.com.
Joyce J. Evans has over 10 years of experience in educational teaching, tutorial development, and web design. She has received Editors Choice Awards for her Fireworks 4 f/x & Design book, and has authored numerous graphic design titles including Dreamweaver MX Complete Course. She has also contributed to several books such as: Fireworks Magic , Dreamweaver 4: The Complete Reference and the Dreamweaver MX/Fireworks MX Savvy book. Joyce actively writes reviews and articles for several graphic design magazines.
Massimo Foti began using Dreamweaver on the very day the first beta was available, and he has used Dreamweaver ever since. Massimo has been a prolific extension developer since the pioneering days ofDreamweaver 1. He is the creator of www.massimocorner.com, and is a winner of the Macromedia Best Extension Developer award. His extensions are featured on the Macromedia Exchange for Dreamweaver and have been included in many books and magazines. Massimo works at www.amila.ch developing database driven websites using ColdFusion, PHP and different kind of database.
Brad Halstead started out in the computer industry as a sales rep for a local company and moved up quickly to senior technician, where he performed service contracts for companies such as IBM, PC Service Partners, Xerox and Olivetti for several years. In 1994, he became interested in web design and hasn't looked back since. Brad is very lucky and thankful for the support of his partner Brenda and children (Amanda, Aaron and Megan) through his endeavors in this field.
Alwyn Joy currently heads the Animation and Web Technology Division of Whiz Networks Pvt. Ltd. a start up, working on High End Animation and web applications. He strongly advocates the need for R&D using integration over multiple platforms and spends most of his time experimenting with new technology and understanding and expanding the possibilities. He currently is involved in creating content and providing solutions to India's biggest eLearning Houses for various applications including Dreamweaver, Flash, 3D Max to name a few. When he isn't busy with all this, he enjoys making new friends on the net, coding games and cooking. You can reach him at alwynjoy@yahoo.com.
David C. Nicholls is a web developer, physicist, writer, photographer, and a recognized authority on graphics compression software, antique golf clubs and regional fern species. He is co-author of the book "Playing with Fire - Tapping the Power of Macromedia Firework 4" with Linda Rathgeber. He has contributed articles to numerous publications, including PC magazines, HiFi magazines and Amateur Radio journals, computer instruction manuals, book reviews in newspaper literary columns, scientific journals and government reports. David lives in Canberra, Australia with his wife, Trish, and assorted computers named Grunter, Darius, Perseus, and Wally. He can be reached at www.dcnicholls.com and www.home.aone.net.au/byzantium/.
Sean R. Nicholson is the Network Administrator and Web Developer for the Career Services Center at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. He and his development teams architect, develop, and manage foundation and backend execution for programs such as the CareerExec Employment Database (www.careerexec.com), UMKC Career Services website (www.career.umkc.edu), and UMKC's Virtual Career Fair (www.umkc.edu/virtualfair). Sean also does private contract work and consulting on database and web development with organizations and individuals.
Zac Van Note earned a BFA degree in graphic design at New Mexico State University. In the years since college, he's worked as a graphic designer for two large jewelry wholesalers, creating catalogs, websites and hundreds of other marketing materials. Since 1998, Zac has taught dozens of classes at the University of New Mexico and Santa Fe Community College, including Photoshop, QuarkXPress, Digital Prepress and of course, Dreamweaver. He was recently recognized with an 'Outstanding Instructor' award at UNM.
Linda Rathgeber is a writer, web developer, and Macromedia Team member who coaches newcomers in the use of Macromedia's Dreamweaver ands Fireworks programs. She's a former associate editor, and senior layout and graphic artist for the Holistic Resource Magazine, and a contributing writer to such diverse publications as Woman's World and Dream Quarterly International. Since turning freelance, her graphic work has been featured by independent film company King Pictures, in book ads for author Bill Stott, in the Fireworks 4 and Fireworks MX sample files, and on the companion CD-ROM's of Joseph Lowery's Fireworks 3 & 4 Bibles. Recent writing credits include chapters of the Dreamweaver 4 Magic book New Riders Publishing; ISBN: 0735710465, and with her favorite co-author David Nicholls, Playing with Fire: Tapping the Power of Macromedia Fireworks 4. Hungry Minds, Inc; ISBN: 0764535498. Linda lives in Sumter, SC with a monitor pet named Missy and a reliable but aging DELL PC. She can be reached at .
Daniel Short never planned to be a web designer, it just happened. He started out in the Army tearing apart computers and eventually began putting together websites. Dan is a devoted Macromedian (and Team Macromedia Volunteer) and uses almost the entire Macromedia Web Design Suite, including Fireworks and Macromedia Flash. He's been doing the Web gig since the end of 1998, and has had great luck building his web design business through Web Shorts Site Design. Dan helps to maintain several HTML and Dreamweaver reference sites including www.dwfaq.com, for which he created the style changer and all ASP functionality, including the Snippets Exchange. He's also written articles for several resource sites, including AListApart.com; run by Jeffrey Zeldman, and Spider Food.net; run by J.K. Bowman and is a contributing author for the dynamic chapters in the Dreamweaver MX Bible from Hungry Minds.
Jason Cranford Teague is an author, instructor, and designer who specializes in user interface design and multi-media. He has written on a variety of computer related topics for the Apple Developers Center, Adobe, C|Net, Tripod, and The Independent as well as several best best-selling computer design books including DHTML for the World Wide Web and Final Cut Pro 3and The Art of Filmmaking. Jason has taught classes and seminars in web related topics around the US, Canada, and the UK. In 1999, Jason started his own digital consulting service, webbedENVIRONMENTS, which specializes in interface design and video for the web. Check out the web site at: http://www.webbedenvironments.com.
