Help me become a Dreamweaver master...please..

[EnragedPC]

Whats a good book to buy that can help me use Dreamweaver 4.0 to build a site that looks like Toms or Anands or Tweak3d?? I am a complete newbie with Dreamweaver... After the design is done it will be changed to PHP so i can use the PHP DB to control the whole thing

 

[kami]

Putting it together in dreamweaver is easy as hell, its getting the graphics right that's hard.

I learned what I know from just fooling around...Dreamweaver is a such a simple program, buying a $40 book would be a waste when it can all be learned from the help files. Just MHO of course... but the books do exist, even if they are just a rehash of the help files.

 

[EnragedPC]

well i cant seem to make tables like this

table space table space table


table space table space table


like on the Anandtech frontpage

 

[whooosh]

Go to macromedia's resources site. They have many links/tutorial for Dreamweaver.

 

[kami]

i dont get what you are saying. and tables cannot be beside eachother btw. Anandtech is just a bunch of tables and cells and tables within cells, etc.

The only way to get tables beside each other is to make one table (say with 3 columns) and then put individual tables inside each column.

 

[whooosh]

do this...under IE, go to View>Source. Copy everything, and paste it into Dreamweaver. You'll see how its done.

 

[MrBond]

Do the lessons that are included with dreamweaver, there's one on tables. They're VERY good.

I will suggest fireworks for the web graphics, it links nicly with dreamweaver. And making image maps is EASY...

 

[Robert01]

<< do this...under IE, go to View>Source. Copy everything, and paste it into Dreamweaver. You'll see how its done. >>

Do it if you want the Mods knocking on your front door to show you &quot;how it's done&quot;...

 

[huanaku]

What's wrong with looking at source code to learn how to do web pages? That's how I started learning, even now, if I see something I like, I'll look at how it's done to learn. Is that illegal.

 

[CromNogger]

Looking at the source to learn it is perfectly acceptable. Why would Microsloth have put the option to &quot;view source&quot; if you weren't ever supposed to use it?