Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX 2004 offers a rich environment for building professional web sites, with drag-and-drop simplicity, clean HTML code, and dynamic database-driven web site creation tools. It comes with everything except perhaps the most important feature of all: a printed manual. Enter Dreamweaver MX 2004: The Missing Manual, the book that enables both first-time and experienced web designers to bring stunning, interactive web sites to life. What sets this new edition apart is the crystal-clear writing, welcome humor, and exclusive features like these:

• Live examples. With a step-by-step annotated tutorial, readers follow the construction of a state-of-the-art commercial web site, complete with Flash buttons, Cascading Style Sheets, and dynamic databases.

• Tricks of the trade. The book is bursting with undocumented workarounds and shortcuts.

• Design guidance. Readers can create any modern web feature, including forms, animations, pop-up windows, and more. This book lets you know which browsers, situations, and audiences are appropriate for each.

With over 500 illustrations, a handcrafted index, and the clarity of thought that has made bestsellers of every Missing Manual to date, this edition is the ultimate atlas for Dreamweaver MX 2004.

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 32 Ratings

Good Book - 2006-11-10
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Better than Dreamweaver MX 2004 "Training From the Source". This is a step by step book for beginners thru experts. I found it easy to follow and understand. It is also a good reference book for the experienced, which I am not. Why Macromedia could not furnish a book like this with there software I will never understand. The same goes for the new Dreamweaver 8. They want you to buy there product but not show you how to use it. This is a good buy.

Excellent Guide - 2009-08-22
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I had previously stretched the limits of what I knew about Dreamweaver and programming with all other books, tutorials and research realizing that there were still a lot of holes in what I knew. I needed something to help fill in the blanks. This book did just that. Plus it gives a lot of outside the box info such as where you can get great Dreamweaver extensions which are absolutely essential to dynamic websites. It even gives instruction on using some of those extensions which you can't get anywhere else. It is the type of book that makes a lot of assumptions that you know and have used Dreamweaver and that you know your programming language pretty well. So I wouldn't advise it for beginners. But it's wonderful for anyone already using Dreamweaver.

Great How To Manual - 2008-11-10
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I don't usually write reviews for books, but on this one I had to. I took two courses on web site development both were taught on Dreamweaver. I had built about a dozen websites using both Dreamweaver MX and Dreamweaver MX 2004 but I knew that there was just so much that I didn't know about the software.

Finally when I got serious about the business, after getting laid off when my plant closed, I bought this book. I have about half a dozen other books on Dreamweaver. I can throw them all away and just use 'The Missing Manual". I can't say enough about it. Well written, easy to understand, takes you step by step through many procedures that I had trouble with previously. This book was worth twice the price! In my opinion, this is the book that should be used as the text book in college. Not the overpriced manual that was required when I took the course, still have, and useless as a reference guide.

If you want to learn Dreamweaver, Get this book! My next purchase is CSS The Missing manual by David McFarland. I wouldn't waste my money on any other author.

This book should have come with the program!! - 2008-09-07
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An amazing and thorough book! Each chapter teaches you the information in two ways: one in the standard paragraphs and illustrations, then the second at the end of each lesson with a detailed tutorial to follow in the Dreamweaver program itself. So you can choose to learn the lesson the way it best suits you. There were a couple of lessons where I skipped right to the tutorial, a couple where I didn't feel that I needed to go through the tutorial, and some where I went through both.

Don't be intimidated by the size of the book (800+ pages), it is not dry or boring. It is simply packed with great information that takes you step by step from novice to just about expert. And maybe I shouldn't say this, but it would be a bargain at three times the price.

If you need to learn Dreamweaver MX 2004, there is no other book. This is the one you need. :)

Dreamweaver Manual - 2007-04-10
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Fantastic, really simple tutorials and suggested websites for further info. Deals with the basics to get an extemely powerful website online.

There are many more aspects to web design but anyone from the total beginner to intermediate should find this book helpful.

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