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Summary: Extensions, Extensions, Extensions
Review: As a 3 time Macromedia Certified Advanced Cold Fusion Developer and a Macromedia Certified Instructor and contributing author to programming industry magazines I must say that this book is excellent. I have not been a fan of Dreamweaver, until the recent MX version, but I think it's a great tool now. Extensions also give developers a way to write functional code modules for themselves, for others or for profit.Although, I have years and years of programming experience I wanted to pick up a book specifically on extensions before tasking my organization's development team on the task of creating a few sophisticated extensions for the developer community. I'm glad I found this book. It was not only easy to read, but it also maintained a great focus throughout the book on what the reader is trying to learn. There are so many books out today that spend the first 200 pages describing the history of the internet and evolution of man that by the time you get to the good stuff you're reading the appendices. This book is not like that. It is a superb mix of content, examples, tutorials and reference materials. I would definately recommend this book or author to anyone. -Steve Parks
Macromedia Certified Instructor
Macromedia Certified Advanced Cold Fusion MX Developer
Cold Fusion Developer's Journal Contributing Author
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Summary: A must have for Extension Developers
Review: Dreamweaver MX Extensions is a must have for any DWMX extension developer. It explains the development steps the DW reference manuals leave out. I tried my hardest to learn how to build extensions from the reference manuals included with dreamweaver and failed miserably. Stop screwing around and get yourself a copy of this book! I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Lots of information
Review: DREAMWEAVER MX EXTENSIONS
AUTHOR: Laura Gutman
PUBLISHER: New Riders
REVIEWED BY: Barbara Rhoades BOOK REVIEW: Let's create a floating panel. Oh, don't know how? Then check out Chapter 7 in Part II. Let's work with the DOM and the API. Hmmm, don't know what that is either? Check out Chapter 4 for DOM and Chapter 1 for API. Part III, Appendixes will give you a working view of JavaScript. Custom Objects and Behaviors can also be found in "Dreamweaver MX Extensions". There is no CD included with this book but there is plenty of good explanations and even a bit of graphics to show what is being discussed. Also included throughout the book are actual HTML sections for a reader to use. For anyone who wants to make Dreamweaver really work, they should pick up this book. [This] provides over 500 pages of information. Great price for all the information contained in "Dreamweaver MX Extensions".
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Summary: Lots of information
Review: DREAMWEAVER MX EXTENSIONS
AUTHOR: Laura Gutman
PUBLISHER: New Riders
REVIEWED BY: Barbara Rhoades BOOK REVIEW: Let's create a floating panel. Oh, don't know how? Then check out Chapter 7 in Part II. Let's work with the DOM and the API. Hmmm, don't know what that is either? Check out Chapter 4 for DOM and Chapter 1 for API. Part III, Appendixes will give you a working view of JavaScript. Custom Objects and Behaviors can also be found in "Dreamweaver MX Extensions". There is no CD included with this book but there is plenty of good explanations and even a bit of graphics to show what is being discussed. Also included throughout the book are actual HTML sections for a reader to use. For anyone who wants to make Dreamweaver really work, they should pick up this book. [This] provides over 500 pages of information. Great price for all the information contained in "Dreamweaver MX Extensions".
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Summary: A little too advanced for me...
Review: Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX is a powerful tool in web development. To my knowledge it's the only one of it's kind to allow you to "extend" it. This book, Dreamweaver MX Extensions by Laura Gutman (a New Rider's paperback!) goes deep into the "how to's" of "Extending" Dreamweaver MX. I was inspired to go to the Macromedia Exchange to download pre-made extensions, after just reading the introduction! I discovered that there was much more to Dreamweaver than meets the eye. I also discovered that being a newbie web "developer"... this book made my head hurt. There is very good information, and seems to be laid out very well, but extending dreamweaver is probably not something I'm ready to do quite yet. If you are a novice programmer, or bored with what DW can do right out-of-the-box...this book may be for you! This book will teach you to create custom objects, commands and even floating panels, as well as configuring what's already there! This book may be going on the shelf for a few months, but when I get a little more programming experience under my belt.... look out!
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Summary: A little too advanced for me...
Review: Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX is a powerful tool in web development. To my knowledge it's the only one of it's kind to allow you to "extend" it. This book, Dreamweaver MX Extensions by Laura Gutman (a New Rider's paperback!) goes deep into the "how to's" of "Extending" Dreamweaver MX. I was inspired to go to the Macromedia Exchange to download pre-made extensions, after just reading the introduction! I discovered that there was much more to Dreamweaver than meets the eye. I also discovered that being a newbie web "developer"... this book made my head hurt. There is very good information, and seems to be laid out very well, but extending dreamweaver is probably not something I'm ready to do quite yet. If you are a novice programmer, or bored with what DW can do right out-of-the-box...this book may be for you! This book will teach you to create custom objects, commands and even floating panels, as well as configuring what's already there! This book may be going on the shelf for a few months, but when I get a little more programming experience under my belt.... look out!
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Summary: A little too advanced for me...
Review: Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX is a powerful tool in web development. To my knowledge it's the only one of it's kind to allow you to "extend" it. This book, Dreamweaver MX Extensions by Laura Gutman (a New Rider's paperback!) goes deep into the "how to's" of "Extending" Dreamweaver MX. I was inspired to go to the Macromedia Exchange to download pre-made extensions, after just reading the introduction! I discovered that there was much more to Dreamweaver than meets the eye. I also discovered that being a newbie web "developer"... this book made my head hurt. There is very good information, and seems to be laid out very well, but extending dreamweaver is probably not something I'm ready to do quite yet. If you are a novice programmer, or bored with what DW can do right out-of-the-box...this book may be for you! This book will teach you to create custom objects, commands and even floating panels, as well as configuring what's already there! This book may be going on the shelf for a few months, but when I get a little more programming experience under my belt.... look out!
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Summary: Excellent book for the Dreamweaver Hard Coder
Review: There are very few books on the market that successfully explain the extensibility of Dreamweaver. This book breaks down a complex subject into small understandable parts that anyone can follow. The book has very well written hands on tutorials and you can download the source files from the companion site. If you are not a hard coder, you might want to dive into the fundamentals of HTML, Javascript, and XML before you buy this book. For the seasoned DW user and coder this is a very nice addition to the library. Well Done!
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Summary: Awesome
Review: This book really helps me on my work. I need to write some DreamWeaver extensions and this book is perfect. It's easy to follow and have practice sessions. Before I read this book, I tried to read the DreamWeaver extension help page and I was totally confused. I highly recommend this book.
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