George McLachlan lives in Glasgow, Scotland and is a freelance PHP developer. He has been a beta tester for Dreamweaver MX, and also one of the developers for a third-party extension called PHPMXDB, which aims to provide additional database support for PHP within MX. He is a member of Team Macromedia newsgroups. George is a strong supporter of open source technologies and, when time permits, he tries to provide feedback to the PHP QA team. George was a co-author of Foundation Dreamweaver MX for friends of ED, and also authored Dreamweaver MX: Advanced PHP Web Development for glasshaus.

Introducing Dreamweaver MX 2004.- Introducing Our Case Study.- Working with Dreamweaver.- Creating a Layout.- Beginning Page Layout in Dreamweaver.- Internal Page Layout in Dreamweaver.- Creating a Template.- Adding Content.- Working with Code.- Introducing Dynamic Content.- Using PHP and Apache.- Further PHP.- PHP/MySQL: The Real Dynamic Duo.- Secure Login and Registration.- Case Study.- Appendix A: Dreamweaver Extensions.

* Practically orientated-teaches via a real website design. Reader will leave book with knowledge and a self-created website. All examples are useful in real-world web applications, source code will be available for download, and a case study runs throughout the book bringing together all the concepts learned along the way, demonstrating how it can be applied to the construction of a complete dynamic website.

* Starts off at a low level, accessible to novices and ultimately achieves a much deeper understanding than many other beginner books, maintaining the essential "designer-to-designer" philosophy throughout, but covering both design and development (front- and back-end) of a website.

* Many books in one! Along with Dreamweaver MX 2004, we introduce and use a variety of the best web technologies, like CSS, PHP, Apache, and mySQL. Also includes the all-important compliancy with (and background info on) web standards throughout.