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Title: Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX 2004 by Tom Green, Jordan L. Chilcott, Chris S. Flick ISBN: 0-7357-1376-6 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 20 October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Who proofread this?
Comment: Although I am learning a lot from this book, it is a struggle. The step by step instructions are not always clear and sometimes omit important information. Other times the text is just sloppy. For instance, the authors say to name a file, say, file1. Through the rest of the example they refer to the file as file_1. Saying a button is the second from the right on a vertical toolbar is another. It's a good thing you can download the project files from the publisher's website to see what they really are talking about. If I didn't already have experience with Dreamweaver 4 and Fireworks 4, I'd probably be really lost.
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is set to become a classic.
Comment: Hands up those of you who have been to one those free Macromedia seminars where a team of speakers attempt to present all the wonders of Studio MX 2004 over a period of a few hours? Absolutely riveting stuff. Database driven Flash, Cold Fusion interaction, calendars and booking systems, streaming media, fantastic looking demo sites, css tricks, templates, Flash chat rooms. Now hands up those of you who could remember how to do any of it 10 minutes after leaving the conference centre. Frustrating isn't it?
Enter "Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX 2004". This book is set to become a classic. It will change the way you work with "Studio MX 2004" forever. For a start you will find yourself using the entire package to it's full potential as opposed to just tinkering around the edges.
The book revolves around the building of a Web Site for the "Oakbridge Recreation Center". Excited yet? Stick around. This is not just any old Web Site. This is state of the art Cold Fusion / Flash / DMX / MySql masterpiece complete with a Virtual Tour of the facilities based on the visitors interests, an online booking facility and the piece de resistance .... an online meeting facility flexible enough to offer services ranging from a text input chat facility to streaming video and audio.
Scared yet? Don't be. The authors go out of their way to guide you step by step through the process using ample diagrams and screen grabs. Their writing style is up close and personal, almost as if they were sitting next to you having a chat. Their approach throughout is to let the software do all the hard work.
This book is a trip of discovery and along the way you will encounter Flash Remoting, The Flash Communication Server and the use of Flash MX 2004 components, dynamic templates, Dreamweaver's new CSS capabilities, the advantages of using Fireworks as your primary graphics tool and much much more. Just take a look through the Table Of Contents to get a feel for the scope of the book.
This book is aimed at the intermediate user. The guy who has used Dreamweaver and messed with a bit of Flash and is now ready for greater things. If you own Studio MX 2004 you NEED this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Read!!!
Comment: "Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX 2004" is by far the best book I've read on building dynamic websites to date. Only one other book I know of goes into so much detail regarding the overall process of developing a website, "Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX", which is also written by the remarkable trio who wrote this book.
I really appreciated how the books focus on teaching its readers how to integrate Macromedia's latest tools with one another melded seamlessly into the dynamic workflow being presented throughout the book; As well as how it not only showed you "how" to do certain tasks related to the project (step-by-step), but goes that extra step and tells you "why" you should do it that way. Throughout the book the authors took a "let the software do the work" approach to their instruction, which made the whole development process seem a lot less daunting and quite efficient.
Although I'm usually quite thick skinned when I read a book, I actually found it refreshing the way the authors talked straight to you as an equal, and by the use of illustrations really helped get across the concepts that may have been over the less technical minded readers head. Overall the tone of the book was one that made you feel good about what you were learning and that it wasn't beyond your reach. Although if you are a novice this book would most definitely not be the place to start learning the ropes.
The real meat of this book came in the form of the topics that were covered during the course of the project. Some of the more exciting topics covered included the use of Flash Remoting, incorporating the Flash Communication Server through the use of Flash MX 2004 components, dynamic templates, and putting Dreamweaver's new CSS capabilities to the test. Add this to the great coverage of the dynamic development process and you'll find that you're hard pressed to find anything you don't like about the book...
Overall the bottom line is if you are a web professional looking for a book to fully explains the process of building dynamic web sites/applications, and how to use Macromedia's latest and greatest tools seamlessly together, this is a book you are going to want to add to your library.
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Title: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 with ASP, ColdFusion, and PHP : Training from the Source by Jeffrey Bardzell ISBN: 0321241576 Publisher: Macromedia Press Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Databases by Sean R. Nicholson ISBN: 0735713707 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 : Training from the Source (3rd Edition) by Khristine Annwn Page ISBN: 0321219198 Publisher: Macromedia Press Pub. Date: 06 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Macromedia Studio MX 2004 All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies by Damon Dean, Andy Cowitt, Ellen Finkelstein, Doug Sahlin, Camille McCue ISBN: 0764544071 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 24 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Macromedia Studio MX 2004 : Training from the Source by Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell ISBN: 0321241584 Publisher: Macromedia Press Pub. Date: 09 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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