As a serious Web designer or developer, you'll want to do one thing and one thing only when you lay your hands on the latest version of Dreamweaver: Start tinkering with all its new features. Problem is that's hard to do on someone else's dime. With Dreamweaver MX 2004 Magic, you don't have to! In these pages, Dreamweaver wizards Mossimo Foti, Angela C. Buraglia, and Daniel Short and several other experts draw on their own professional experience to offer 12 real-world projects that let you explore Dreamweaver MX 2004 at your leisure. With a focus on areas that can be troublesome for professional users-whether because they present thorny issues or because they draw on completely new features-each lesson provides need-to-know tips, proven techniques, and best practices. By working through the step-by-step tutorials (whose project files and code you'll find on the accompanying CD), you soon will be finding your way around all of Dreamweaver MX 2004's new features: dynamic cross-browser validation, improved CSS support, built-in graphics editing, and more. In addition to the code listings and exercise files on the CD-ROM, you¿ll find videos that clearly demonstrate step by step all the procedures you need to complete in order to create the projects.

This book has been created with special elements in order to make your experience with the manuscript more productive.

• Each project opens with a statement from the author explaining why he or she chose this particular technique or project to share with you and how it will help you in your work. You'll also get a quick, illustrated overview of the project in the section called "It Works Like This."
• Before you start diving into each project, there are several tasks you need to complete in order to prepare your workspace and files. This is covered in the "Preparing to Work" sections.
• At the end of each project, a section called "Now Try This" suggests other ways to apply the methods you've learned, or ways to adapt the project you've just completed, whether it's building on the project itself or swapping out some functionality.
• In addition to the code listings and exercise files on the accompanying CD-ROM, you'll find videos that clearly demonstrate step by step all the procedures you need to complete in order to create the projects.
  

Massimo Foti is the creator of www.massimocorner.com and is a winner of the Macromedia Best Extension Developer award. His extensions are featured on the Macromedia Exchange for Dreamweaver. Angela C. Buraglia founded DreamweaverFAQ.com in an effort to give back to the Macromedia Dreamweaver newsgroup community. Currently, she is also a prolific extension developer. Daniel Short helps to maintain several HTML and Dreamweaver reference sites including www.dwfaq.com, for which he created the style changer and all ASP functionality, including the Snippets Exchange.