Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX 2004 (Voices That Matter)

click here for more details, find new or used items	Tom Green, Jordan L. Chilcott, Chris Flick Our price £27.99 (£34.99) New from £9.00 Used from £8.29 Pages: 576 (Paperback) ISBN: 0735713766 Pub: New Riders Pub date: 2003-10-28 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 379958

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Totally confusing! (5/5 people found this helpful)

I have to disagree with the review listed as I have struggled and struggled with this book which just leaps about everywhere with little or no explanation of what and why. The first 130+ pages show little unconnected fairly useless snippets on how to use freehand and a little fireworks to create the rough drawing of your site. For example, pages 85 - 89 explain how to "use the Freehand MX Connector Tool" to show connections between database schema. The Note on page 89 then says "Do not use the connect tool for database schemas"! You will pick up a couple of snippets on how to do things but the way the book jumps around doing half a job means you quickly forget it! Don't buy this book - buy the "Dreamweaver MX 2004 with asp, coldfusion, and php" by Jeffrey Bardzell" - it is fantastic, easy to follw and does the whole job of building and linking databases.

This book is set to become a classic (75/78 people found this helpful)

Hands up those of you who have been to one those free Macromedia seminars where a team of speakers attempt to present all the wonders of Studio MX 2004 over a period of a few hours? Absolutely riveting stuff. Database driven Flash, Cold Fusion interaction, calendars and booking systems, streaming media, fantastic looking demo sites, css tricks, templates, Flash chat rooms. Now hands up those of you who could remember how to do any of it 10 minutes after leaving the conference centre. Frustrating isn't it?

Enter "Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX 2004". This book is set to become a classic. It will change the way you work with "Studio MX 2004" forever. For a start you will find yourself using the entire package to it's full potential as opposed to just tinkering around the edges.

The book revolves around the building of a Web Site for the "Oakbridge Recreation Center". Excited yet? Stick around. This is not just any old Web Site. This is state of the art Cold Fusion / Flash / DMX / MySql masterpiece complete with a Virtual Tour of the facilities based on the visitors interests, an online booking facility and the piece d resistance .... an online meeting facility flexible enough to offer services ranging from a text input chat facility to streaming video and audio.

Scared yet? Don't be. The authors go out of their way to guide you step by step through the process using ample diagrams and screen grabs. Their writing style is "up close and personal" almost as if they were sitting next to you having a chat. Their approach throughout is "let the software do the work".

This book is a trip of discovery and along the way you will encounter Flash Remoting, The Flash Communication Server and the use of Flash MX 2004 components, dynamic templates, Dreamweaver's new CSS capabilities, the advantages of using Fireworks as your primary graphics tool and much much more. Just take a look through the Table Of Contents to get a feel for the scope of the book.

This book is aimed at the intermediate user. The guy who has used Dreamweaver and messed with a bit of Flash and is now ready for greater things. If you own Studio MX 2004 you NEED this book.

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