Dreamweaver MX Templates

by Murray Summers and Brad Halstead

Both authors are active on the Dreamweaver Forums, and bring focus to a powerful, yet underused tool. Their book will help users at every level discover how to take advantage of the power of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735713197
• ISBN13: 9780735713192
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: New Riders Publishing
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

This book is needed to learn template features well

Templates in Dreamweaver MX are far more advanced than previous versions of Dreamweaver. There are five new regions to enhance and extend Dreamweaver templates. The templates have become mini-programs in a way which allow the designer a vast amount of control - control that I didn't even realize was possible. I bought this book to learn about Editable Tag Attributes and was amazed at what can be done with the new templates. In the first section of the book, the authors cover new template features -explaining them in depth. The second section of the book walks you through the development of a template-based web site. The authors also explain pitfalls so that you can avoid making mistakes in your design. This is a great book and I highly recommend it. The template snippet extension that they provide is fantastic too. To learn more about his book, visit the author site...

Valuable resource for a professional or shop

This Book is for The Dreamweaver Users who wants to get more out of Dreamweaver. Written mostly for the "Experienced User" But you don't have to be an expert to need or want the advantages that Dreamweaver Mx Templates provide.If you use Dreamweaver Templates, You know how handy they can be.If you've used Dreamweaver Templates, You also know how confusing they can be.This Book highlights the best aspects of MX Templates. The How and Why you should use them in the working environment. How to speed up production and just make your job easier. This book is easy to navigate. If you have any experience with Dreamweaver or the Internet, all you really have to know is, what it is do you want to do.This book covers topics not covered in the Dreamweaver manual and explains in further detail topics that do cross over.If you use Dreamweaver or want to use Dreamweaver. This book is a must read!Here are some highlights that I found very helpful:Library Items:Library Items aren't new and have been covered in previous Dreamweaver manuals.Dreamweaver MX-templates put Library Items in a perspective that show you how to use all the elements of Dreamweaver that work together to give you the full benefit of Dreamweaver MX.Snippets: Anyone who's ever wrote HTML has used snippets, even if you didn't realize it.If you've ever veiwed the source of a page to see how it's been done, or had to go back into a site and grab code you've already written to apply it to a new site in a different environment , You've used snippets. Snippets allow you to save parts "snippets" of code to reuse over and over again. Snippets are available under windows in the snippets panel. Unlike library Items, snippets aren't updateable site wide.A find and replace could save you some time and provide similar results if used carefully.Templates and RegionsThis section goes in to further detail on how to use templates to their fullest extent.The sections on Nested templates and Editable Regions should clear up any confusion anyone may have or had using Templates in this way.I know I couldn't have figured it out without this book or a one on one tutor.Dreamweaver MX-templates also covers overlooked topics like the importance of removing dreamweaver markup.Section 2 The Project: Covers exercises to use on your computer and examples of templates to download. The project was great because it puts you in a working environment with out the stress of a working environment. So if make a mistake you will learn from it, instead of setting the project back or worse. Better to make the mistakes in the project exercise than in the real world.Anyone who reads this book and completes the exercise should have just about all the knowledge available to Dreamweaver to date.Again, If you use Dreamweaver or want to use Dreamweaver. This book is a must read!

Awesome! A Dreamweaver MX User's Template Bible!

As a Professional Website Designer/Developer, it is my job to make sure that I offer my clients a well designed website that they will not only be comfortable with, but proud of. Templates make things a lot easier - but not everyone knows how to use them. The best way that I've found to learn the ins and outs of Templates in Dreamweaver MX is this book. It is written in a language anyone can understand. It offers hands-on projects to show you, not just tell you, how things work. Whether you are an experienced Dreamweaver User or Website Developer, or a beginner, this book can walk you through the process of using templates to design your websites easily and effectively. It's insightful, well-thought-out, well-written, and an extremely useful tool that I would recommend to anyone at any level. Thanks Brad and Murray for writing this awesome book!

A must-have book for any serious Dreamweaver MX user

If you are an avid Dreamweaver MX user and rely heavily on templates for your site design, Dreamweaver MX Templates is for you. You may already be using templates to save time in web site design, as you may have done in previous versions of Dreamweaver. However, you may not be getting the most usage our of your templates as you could be. This book shows you a side of templates within Dreamweaver MX that you may never have known to exist previously. Dreamweaver MX Templates thoroughly covers not only basic template usage, but also the programmability features of templates. It shows you how to manipulate the template programming language to create extensive template pages with a handful of code.All in all, the book is very well laid out and easy to understand. There's tons of information packed into the book with plenty to "wow" the reader with a lot of "I didn't know Dreamweaver templates could do that". If you're serious about tapping deeper into Dreamweaver MX templates, this is the book to buy.

Mystery of DWMX Templates Solved!

Dreamweaver MX Templates is the first great "how to" book for utilizing the power of library items and templates. Of all the mysteries not well understood about DW features, Templates is certainly high on the list. Mystery solved! Brad and Murry have covered the territory well with a book that starts at the beginning (section 1) and builds (section 2) so that anyone reading the book can walk away confident in the uses of templates, new template features in DWMX and the awesome timesaver available in library items. Instructional and easy to read material, complimented by easy to understand exercises reveal the power in templates, library items and snippets.A great book for those new to the power in DWMX and a good reference guide for those who understand DWMX but just haven't gotten the hang of templates and library items.