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hartk10

2005-03-10, 6:34 pm

I was recently given the job of developing my clubs site
www.abcwritersnetwork.co.uk and I've had to call here on a number of occasions
to ask, what I suppose were very simple questions.

I quite like Dreamweaver MX and would dearly love to know a bit more about it.
To be able to build a bit more into our site but my proble is I don't have any
background in web design, don't know any code and when people suggest that I
haven't closed an end tag-or something like that-I feel silly.

There is no Dreamweaver courses available at my local Tech and when there was
the guy couldn't teach to keep himself warm. He knew how to use Dreamweaver, he
makes his living at it and he is even quite good. But teach-never!

How does one go about learnig the like of Dreamweaver, at least to a level
where you can build a pretty decent site, remembering that you are coming from
a background of knowing nothing of html or htm?

I've a copy of 'Macromedia Studio MX for Dummies' and 'building web sites with
macromedia STUDIO MX,' and they are both very good in their own right but you
couldn't really start from scratch and learn what's going on. Remember that
it's purely a personal interest so I don't want to spend big bucks. Where do I
go? Can anyone recommend a good online primer I reckon if I get the primer then
I can sort the rest from books.

Many thanks for any suggestions. And hopefully this will help fellow
travellers like myself

Kevin.

Murray *TMM*

2005-03-10, 6:34 pm

Check these out:

Dreamweaver MX 2004: The Missing Manual - by David Sawyer McFarland
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...=books&n=507846

Depending on your technical expertise, the following could become one of
your most useful references -

Dreamweaver MX 2004 Bible - by Joseph Lowery
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...=books&n=507846

Dreamweaver MX 2004: The Complete Reference, Second Edition
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...=books&n=507846

And finally, you will *definitely* want this one once you get to speed!

Dreamweaver MX 2004 Magic - by Massimo Foti, Angela Buraglia, and Dan Short
(with help from their friends)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...=books&n=507846

In addition, I can't praise this one highly enough -

http://www.projectseven.com/foundations/index.htm

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Murray --- ICQ 71997575
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"hartk10" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I was recently given the job of developing my clubs site
> www.abcwritersnetwork.co.uk and I've had to call here on a number of
> occasions
> to ask, what I suppose were very simple questions.
>
> I quite like Dreamweaver MX and would dearly love to know a bit more about
> it.
> To be able to build a bit more into our site but my proble is I don't have
> any
> background in web design, don't know any code and when people suggest that
> I
> haven't closed an end tag-or something like that-I feel silly.
>
> There is no Dreamweaver courses available at my local Tech and when there
> was
> the guy couldn't teach to keep himself warm. He knew how to use
> Dreamweaver, he
> makes his living at it and he is even quite good. But teach-never!
>
> How does one go about learnig the like of Dreamweaver, at least to a level
> where you can build a pretty decent site, remembering that you are coming
> from
> a background of knowing nothing of html or htm?
>
> I've a copy of 'Macromedia Studio MX for Dummies' and 'building web sites
> with
> macromedia STUDIO MX,' and they are both very good in their own right but
> you
> couldn't really start from scratch and learn what's going on. Remember
> that
> it's purely a personal interest so I don't want to spend big bucks. Where
> do I
> go? Can anyone recommend a good online primer I reckon if I get the primer
> then
> I can sort the rest from books.
>
> Many thanks for any suggestions. And hopefully this will help fellow
> travellers like myself
>
> Kevin.
>