Dreamweaver CS5

1347 Pages·2010·41.785 MB·English

by  Joseph W Lowery

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Bible
Joseph Lowery
Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS5 Bible
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About the Author
Joseph Lowery has been writing about computers and new technology since 1981. He is
the author of the previous editions of Dreamweaver Bible as well as the recent Adobe CS4 Web
Workflows, Adobe CS3 Web Workflows, and CSS Hacks and Filters (all published by Wiley). He
is also the author of Joseph Lowery’s Beyond Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver MX 2004 Killer Tips
(with Angela Buraglia), and Dreamweaver MX 2004 Web Application Recipes and Dreamweaver 8
Recipes (with Eric Ott), all published by New Riders. He has also written books on HTML and on
using the Internet for business. His books are international bestsellers, having sold more than
400,000 copies worldwide in eleven different languages. Joe is also a consultant and trainer and
has presented at Seybold in both Boston and San Francisco, Adobe conferences in the U.S. and
Europe, and at ThunderLizard’s Web Design World. He is currently a partner in Mark of the Joe
Communications, an eLearning consultancy.
About the Technical Editor
Derren Whiteman has been working on computer books as an author, ghost writer, and techni-
cal editor since 1999. He has served as technical editor for this release of the Dreamweaver Bible
and the previous five versions of it, and provided technical editing and screenshot creation for
other books, including Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips and Dreamweaver MX 2004 Killer Tips.
On the Fireworks side, Derren is the coauthor of the Fireworks MX Bible and technical editor of
Adobe’s Fireworks CS4 Classroom in a Book and the Fireworks 3 and 4 Bibles. In all, he has made
substantive contributions to 17 books on Dreamweaver and Fireworks. Derren practices what he
preaches by using Dreamweaver and Fireworks in the Web design field and can often be found in
discussions about why you don’t “need” to use Photoshop to create great Web sites.
When not working in Web-related fields, Derren enjoys digital photography, videography, and
DVD creation, usually entailing the use of iMovie, iDVD, Final Cut Express, or DVD Studio Pro.
He is an avid Mac user and Apple proponent who makes his home in Toronto, Canada. To find
him on the Internet, visit http://www.derren.com.
About the Instructional Designer
One of the innovations in Dreamweaver CS5 Bible is the inclusion of Captivate simulations on the
Web site, one for each of the Dreamweaver Techniques in the book. All of these interactive mov-
ies were created by Mark Fletcher.
Mark Fletcher has been in the I.T. industry for 20 years. He is a seasoned instructional designer
and has created eLearning content for blue chip clients including Adobe Systems, Inc. and
WebAssist.com. Mark is a partner in the Rapid eLearning development company Mark of the Joe
Communications and is a regular contributor to Adobe’s Developer Center. Mark was also the
technical editor for CSS Hacks and Filters by Joseph Lowery (Wiley Publishing, Inc.). Mark lives
on the Northwest coast of the United Kingdom with his wife Vanessa and their two children, Joel
and Lucy. Mark can be reached on his personal blog, http://macrofireball.blogspot.com.
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