Author: Jeffrey Bardzell
Copyright 2006
508 pages
Published by Macromedia Press
No review done by member
Author: Betsy Bruce
Published 2007
559 pages
Publisher: Sams
No review by member
Author: Steve Johnson
Published 2008
588 pages
Published by Que
No review done by member
Author: Aak Ruvalcaba
Published 2008
1,096 pages
Sam's Publisher
No review done by member
I would say this DVD is somewhat misnamed. First, you might think from use of the word “Mastering” that it’s for advanced users. However, it is actually very much a beginner resource. And second, it’s really about the use of JavaScript frameworks rather than Ajax specifically (at least if you define Ajax as the combination of JavaScript and XML). Only one of the 9 segments deals with using XML data.
Presentation for TAG on Jan 16, 2008, by Laura LePere with Arizona State Museum.
As of Dreamweaver 8 you can create pages that pull in data directly from XML files. There are tools for both client-side and server-side transformation of XML into dynamic web pages. Laura's presentation will focus primarily on the server-side tools with a demonstration of how to use this technique to consume an RSS feed and to create a web gallery starting with data in an Excel spreadsheet.
April 16, 2008 presentation for TAG given by Anne Twaits and Linda Ffolliott. Both are in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Arizona.
Mike Griffith with the College of Medicine gave an overview of Drupal, an open-source content management framework. Mike's presentation was about 1.5 hours, and he addressed why a web developer would want to use Drupal over a Dreamweaver-crafted site and demonstrated how to create a custom theme using Fireworks CS4 and add in the needed php code to change the HTML page to a Drupal page.tpl.php file. The meeting was broadcast live via Connect and is available at http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p82775874/