Build Your Own Standards Compliant Website Using Dreamweaver 8
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Build Your Own Standards Compliant Website with Dreamweaver 8 is written for any user of Dreamweaver who wants to create standards compliant, usable and fully accessible websites. By applying Web Standards and best-practices, readers will learn to create fast-loading, easy-to-maintain and cross-browser compatible Websites. This book focuses on using XHTML & semantic markup, CSS Layouts, and accessibility guidelines to show users how to make the most of Dreamweaver 8.… Product details and pricing info |
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11 Customer Reviews Posted
- Pretty good reference
- If you're relatively new to web standards and Dreamweaver this is a pretty good place to start. I think the book is well written and has good examples. It does a good job of explaining the standards and how to implement them. For me, it was a bit light and a lot of it was review but I have quite a bit of experience. For the less experienced I think it's a good buy. Of course, at the time of my review this book is outdated if you're using Dreamweaver CS3 or later.
- 2008-10-09, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Easy to use
- You don't have to be a professional programmer to produce an accessible, acceptable web site using Dreamweaver 8: all that's required is a working knowledge of the program and Rachel Andrew's BUILD YOUR OWN STANDARDS COMPLIANT WEBSITE USING DREAMWEAVER 8. It's a step-by-step guide which begins with setting preferences and proceeds through the basics of accessibility, navigation links and styling, working with Dreamweaver's CSS panel, and more. One might anticipate a complex guide - but BUILD YOUR OWN STANDARDS COMPLIANT WEBSITE is easy to use, whether you're reading cover-to-cover or hopping about for a quick fix to a problem.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch - 2007-01-07, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Dreamweaver 8
- Since I've purchased other books by Rachel Andrew and have concluded that they are excellent 'help' books for beginners to advanced site builders, I thought I'd try this one out also. It's nice because it guides you pertinent to web standards using CSS, Xhtml and more within Dreamweaver.
The book is easy to understand and guides you step by step. - 2006-11-10, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Missing an important chapter or two
- This book may be helpful if you are working alone to design a small site. If you want to know how to set up and use a test server, download to test server vs. remote server, use check-in/check-out, use cloaking (re Dreamweaver, not the same as cloaking re search engines), or almost any other Dreamweaver 8 site management functionality... well, that was the information I needed and it isn't in this book.
- 2006-10-06, 2 of 8 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- THE DREAMWEAVER CODE
- Are you a Dreamweaver novice or a more experienced user? If you are, then this book is for you! Author Rachel Andrew, has written an outstanding book that will help you expand your knowledge and learn how to use Dreamweaver 8 to create sites that are accessible, standards compliant, and use CSS for layout.
Andrew, begins by taking a look at Web standards: what they are, why they're important, and who they're designed to help. Then, she shows you how to develop your site--thinking specifically about the layout and the structure of the site, and setting up your tools so you're ready to get started. The author continues by discussing XHTML, clarifying how it differs from HTML, and how you can work with it in Dreamweaver 8. In addition, she walks you through the process of using Dreamweaver 8 to create a document that validates as XHTML. The author also explores Dreamweaver 8's Cascading Style Sheets tools. Then, the author shows you how to use Dreamweaver 8's powerful CSS tools to create a style sheet for your document. Next, she provides some more information on the use of tools to help you create accessible Websites, discusses the process of validating documents for accessibility, and considers the ways in which users' differing needs can be met through good design. Next, the author shows you how to create a page design that you can use as a template for any internal pages that are developed for the project. Then, she briefly describes how to create a form using a variety of the accessibility features that Dreamweaver 8 offers. Finally, she looks at the ways in which you can utilize the power of CSS to provide visitors a variety of alternate style sheets with which to use the site.
After reading this excellent book, you'll learn how to use Dreamweaver 8 the right way. In other words, this book will help you do all of this without compromising accessibility or standards compliance. - 2006-02-25, 6 of 7 people found this review helpful, Rated:
