* Teaches Web development using real world tutorials. * Approach to subject is no nonsense, wastes little time on history and unnecessary information; therefore it is very concise and results driven. * Covers vital Web development subjects such as Web standards principles and implementation. * Includes a useful set-up section to guide and get the reader up-and-running quickly and easily (the technology isn’t quite as easy to set up as ASP).

PHP Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 (Books for Professionals by Professionals the Expert's Voice)

Computers & Technology

Allan Kent

Rachel Andrew

David Powers

Web Development & Design

Apress

Recently updated to version MX 2004, Dreamweaver remains the world's most popular tool for website design and development - with over three million users worldwide. This new version features updated accessibility features, and supports multiple languages and technologies, such as CSS and XHTML, PHP 4 and ASP 3, MySQL and Access, Apache and IIS, and Windows and Mac operating systems. This book contains four detailed design projects - case studies that teach advanced web design and development techniques - relevant to Dreamweaver MX 2004. Two design projects are performed on a Mac, and two on a PC - but all four projects apply to both Mac and PC users. Two of the projects focus on client-side web design techniques, while the other two focus on intensive ASP and PHP server-side site programming and development.

Dreamweaver MX 2004 Design Projects

Christopher Schmitt

Craig Grannell

Learning tool and reference combined-the only available coverage of the creation, modification and delivery of multimedia content using the most popular PHP4 extension libraries. Softcover.

Professional PHP4 Multimedia Programming

Devon H O'Dell

Andy Chase

Jan Rosa

Sanjay Abraham

Iman S.H. Suyoto

Kapil Apshankar

PHP is an insanely popular, easy-to-learn language that you can use to create dynamic webpages in double-quick time. Whether the PHP webpage you create is for business or pleasure, you obviously want your webpage to be as attractive as possible (though not at the expense of your website's performance!). In the PHP Graphics Handbook, we show you cunning graphical techniques that will make your website stand out from the crowd. 
Here's an example. Say you wanted to display data from an online poll - the results of which were changing all the time - in a professional-looking graph. You could regenerate an image of the graph periodically, by using a spreadsheet application and updating the data values it contains every so often by hand. But who really wants to waste time like that? Wouldn't it be much better to store the poll data in a database, and then get PHP to link to that, pull out the data, and use a graphics library to display the poll directly in the browser? We show you how. 
Here's another. Many websites display thumbnails of images that you click on to display the full size image, or perhaps as a link to another page. Of course, we don't want to have to create thumbnails of all these images ourselves, and then store the thumbnails and full size images too. A much more effective way to handle thumbnails is to generate them "on the fly" from the original image, which we can do several ways using PHP. But which approach would produce the best quality thumbnails? And which would create them the fastest? We tell you. 
Both of these examples involve generating images or charts dynamically (on the fly). This is the main benefit of using PHP to generate graphics, so it's the thread that links all of the topics we discuss in the book. With the knowledge you pick up from the book, you'll be able to enhance the appearance and functionality of your website dramatically. 
The book teaches you how to apply all of the following techniques on the fly using your PHP code: 
- Creating new image files in various formats and drawing on blank images - Merging, blurring, cropping, copying and cutting-up images - The most effective ways to generate thumbnails and store images - Manipulating color, grayscaling and duotone, adjusting brightness - Adding transparency, soft and hard shadows, and watermarks - How to add text to images: handling fonts and text layout - How to create professional-looking charts and graphs

PHP Graphics Handbook

Jason E. Sweat

Mitja Slenc

Programming

We gave four web professionals a design brief: we asked them each to plan, design, and implement a specific type of web site, then write up all their design and development considerations - how to be visually appealing while usable and accessible, how to wireframe the sites, and how to develop them with usability and accessibility in mind. The web sites are: A corporate site (designed using CSS and templates on a Mac) A news portal (made using PHP on a PC) An entertainment site (a visually appealing fan site for the band U2, made using a Mac) A company intranet site (made using ASP on a PC) The authors also take you through the complete code for each site (including server-side functionality, CSS, and Dreamweaver templates), which is available for download from glasshaus. Using this book, you can learn from their work, and multiply your own Dreamweaver knowledge.

Dreamweaver MX Design Projects

Christopher Schmitt Craig Grannell Rachel Andrew

Wrox Press

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