The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP

David Powers is an Adobe Community Expert for Dreamweaver and author of a series of highly successful books on PHP, including PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy and Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8. As a professional writer, he has been involved in electronic media for more than 30 years, first with BBC radio and television and more recently with the Internet. His clear writing style is valued not only in the English-speaking world; several of his books have been translated into Spanish and Polish. What started as a mild interest in computing was transformed almost overnight into a passion, when David was posted to Japan in 1987 as BBC correspondent in Tokyo. With no corporate IT department just down the hallway, he was forced to learn how to fix everything himself. When not tinkering with the innards of his computer, he was reporting for BBC television and radio on the rise and collapse of the Japanese bubble economy. Since leaving the BBC to work independently, he has built up an online bilingual database of economic and political analysis for Japanese clients of an international consultancy. When not pounding the keyboard writing books or dreaming of new ways of using PHP and other programming languages, David enjoys nothing better than visiting his favorite sushi restaurant. He has also translated several plays from Japanese.

Dreamweaver’s New Look— More than Skin Deep.- Setting Up a Site in Dreamweaver.- Creating a Web Page and Adding Content.- Using CSS to Add a Touch of Style.- Creating a CSS Site Straight Out of the Box.- Building Site Navigation with the Spry Menu Bar.- Using Spry Dynamic Effects and Components.- Going Beyond the Basics with Spry and Ajax.- Building Online Forms and Validating Input.- Introducing the Basics of PHP.- Using PHP to Process a form.- Reducing Your Workload with PHP Includes.- Preserving Design Integrity with Templates and Incontext Editing.- Storing User Records in a Database.- Validating Database Input and User Authentication.- Working with Custom Forms and Multiple Tables.- Handling Checkbox Groups, Searches, and Dates.- Using XSLT to Display Live News Feeds and XML.- Using Spry Data Sets to Refresh Content.- Deploying Your Site on the Internet.