This book is primarily intended to assist growing professionals in gaining a fantastic working knowledge of Dreamweaver and the issues in design and markup that are affecting the changing way in which they work. This book addresses issues in Web design and development from an extremely contemporary standpoint. While the information contained within is suitable for beginners, the real emphasis is to assist the intermediate designer interested in learning how to work with Dreamweaver to achieve best practices within the design and development industry. The book provides plenty of tips and real-world advice from people working in the trenches, and lays a solid groundwork so that readers have a firm grasp of the basics before moving to more advanced functionality.
Molly E. Holzschlag, lead author, is a writer, an instructor, and a designer who brings attitude and enthusiasm to books, magazines, classrooms, and Web sites. Honored by Webgrrls as one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women on the Web, Molly has spent more than a decade working in the online world. She has written 20 books on HTML and Web design and development topics, including the bestselling Special Edition Using HTML 4.0 and internationally acclaimed Web by Design.
Her popular column of 2 1/2 years, "Integrated Design," appeared monthly in the internationally popular WebTechniques Magazine until the magazine's closing in early 2002. Molly served for a year as the executive editor of Web Review and has contributed features and columns to Adobe Studios, Adobe.com, Builder.com, Digital Chicago, Digital New York, IBM developerWorks, MacWorld, MSDN, PC Magazine, and other developer publications.
When offline, Molly plays guitar and sings in the original acoustic duo Courage Sisters. For books, giveaways, training, speaking events, and other items of fun and interest, drop by her Web site at, where else, http://www.molly.com.
Jennifer Ackerman Kettell, coauthor, is a seasoned author and freelance writer on computer and Internet subjects. She is a Web developer and designer with more than 11 years of experience building sites and communities in the online services industry and as a freelancer. Read more about Jenn at her site, http://www.pendragn.com.
Jason Cranford Teague, contributing author, is a senior information architect for Lante and was previously with iXL, where he designed Web sites. He is the author of several bestselling books. Jason contributed material for the JavaScript, DHTML, and dynamic design topics in this book. He also served as technical editor for several chapters. Visit Jason's Web site at http://www.webbedenvironments.com for more up-to-date information on his activities.
