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Dreamweaver in a Nutshell. A Desktop Quick Reference, by Heather Williamson and Bruce Epstein, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 2001, 470 pp., ISBN 0-596-00239-4, $29.95

Audience: Web designers and IT experts actually designing, programming and maintaining web-sites, and interested in learning about web authoring techniques and best practices. No deep IT background is required to follow this excellent technical text. Valuable to both the newcomers as well as the Dreamweaver experts.

Contents & Review: This excellent book is a technical overview and discussion of web authoring and web-site design, focusing on Dreamweaver in detail. It is a valuable resource for the beginner, as well as the serious IT professional.

It explains and demonstrates the fundamentals of Dreamweaver, as well as advanced areas of interest, including: document creation, site tables, image maps, CSS and HTML templates and styles, XML creation and tags, HTML cleanup procedures and available tools, and an extended library of Dreamweaver functions and functionality.

Furthermore, this books applies to Dreamweaver UltraDev, therefore represents a must for the web professional.

The conclusion is that if you are interested in a good technical text that covers more than the manuals offered with Dreamweaver, then don't go further. this is the text you need!

The Appendix contains a useful summary and examples of code.

There is also an Index.