Build Your Own Standards Compliant Website &mdash by Rachel Andrew
Technology
Reviewed by Michael Pastore
Years ago I abandoned my Dreamweaver (version 4) because it lacked the ability to work with XHTML. In Macromedia's latest release, Dreamweaver 8, everything has changed. Dreamweaver's default format is XHTML, and the software's new features for working with Cascading Style sheets are impressive. Admirably, DW 8 has been built to create websites that are "standards compliant", according to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) developed by the WAI group of the W3C.
It's always good news when developers — of software and web browsers — improve their products to comply with standards. The only downside is for individuals who make and manage websites: the two online manuals about the latest edition of Dreamweaver weigh in at more than 1,300 PDF pages long. And that's where Rachel Andrew's new book -- one of the first published works about DW 8 -- can come to the rescue.
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Reviewed by Michael Pastore
Years ago I abandoned my Dreamweaver (version 4) because it lacked the ability to work with XHTML. In Macromedia's latest release, Dreamweaver 8, everything has changed. Dreamweaver's default format is XHTML, and the software's new features for working with Cascading Style sheets are impressive. Admirably, DW 8 has been built to create websites that are "standards compliant", according to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) developed by the WAI group of the W3C.
It's always good news when developers — of software and web browsers — improve their products to comply with standards. The only downside is for individuals who make and manage websites: the two online manuals about the latest edition of Dreamweaver weigh in at more than 1,300 PDF pages long. And that's where Rachel Andrew's new book -- one of the first published works about DW 8 -- can come to the rescue.
Read more ...
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