Dreamweaver UltraDev: The Complete Reference [With CDROM]

by Tom Allen and Ray West

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072130172
• ISBN13: 9780072130171
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 842 Pages
• Weight: 3.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

People are crazy

It's funny that when you read the reviews of this book (which I thought was excellent, BTW) that one person says it was too code heavy and the next says it was too basic. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and that's what makes the whole of these reviews useful. The diversity probably means that the book hit its mark as a complete reference targeted at many levels of users.To express your opinion about the book is one thing. To insult the authors and their website is uncalled for and petty. If you want to know how much these "kids" know, spend one day in the Macromedia newsgroups and see the help and support they offer and how respected they are. Their site offers some of the most advanced (and, I believe, award winning) extensions available for the product.Listen to the multitude of other reviewers who have offered tremendous praise for this book and get it if you want to learn UltraDev front to back. Yes, it shows you the basics, but it contains material more advanced than is available anywhere else for this program. It is not perfect, but it is indeed a Complete Reference.

An excellent resource if you use UltraDev

Unless you came from the right programming background, picking up Ultradev out of the box and knocking out DB driven websites wasn't an easy task. Sure UltraDev is loaded with great things, but figuring out how to use them was a bit of a mystery. Well, this book sets that all straight and really gives utility to a great piece of software.I am not from a programming background, and only started trying to work on our company website last year. I struggled trying to learn things as best I could, but really made progress once I got this book. It clearly lays out just about everything you'd need to know, and more (i.e. extensions, etc). It reads well, seems well organized, and has bits of humor here and there. If you're planning on using UltraDev, spend the money to get this book. You'll definitely make good use of it.

The complete resource/tech center for Ultra Dev 4

The complete Reference Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 book is MORE than just a simple resource book that covers the basic bells and whistles that many resource books tend to follow. I've been a fan of Dreamweaver for the past four years making most my websites with limited information on the more technical aspects of Dreamweaver UltraDev. This book however has some of the most advanced techincal experts using UltraDev showing you the inner workings of this powerful program. This book supplies covers every aspect of UltraDev from configuring your site to utilizing the powerful languages of ASP, Java, and Cold Fusion. There is even an extensive information on building server behavior extensions, objects, queries and e-commerce applications. This book rates high on my list of books to read relating to cutting edge web development.

Required reading for UD developers and extensionologists

'Dreamweaver UltraDev 4: The Complete Reference' covers all of the technologies you need to understand in order to begin building interactive sites with UltraDev: beginning SQL, database design, web page layout, scripting, and application servers. ColdFusion, ASP, and JSP all receive equal time, and beginning developers should feel at ease with the introduction to app server and database concepts. Advanced developers will benefit from almost 200 pages (!) covering extension and object development. My shop uses UD to build web applications and "The Complete Reference" is the best single resource I could recommend for UD developers of any skill level. This book takes a place on my shelf alongside Ben Forta's 'ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit' as a model of lucid, useful technical writing. Thanks, guys.