About the Author
David Sawyer McFarland is president of Sawyer McFarland Media, Inc., a web development and training company in Portland, Oregon. Hes been building websites since 1995, when he designed his first site, an online magazine for communication professionals. Hes served as the Webmaster at the University of California at Berkeley and the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center, and he has helped build, design, and program numerous websites for clients including Macworld.com, among others.
In addition to building websites, David is a writer, trainer, and instructor. Hes taught web design at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, the Center for Electronic Art, the Academy of Art College, and the Art Institute of Portland. He currently teaches in the Multimedia Program at Portland State University. Hes written articles about web design for Practical Web Design, Macworld, and CreativePro.com.
David is also the author of CSS: The Missing Manual and JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual.
He welcomes feedback about this book by email at .)
About the Creative Team
Peter McKie (editor) has a masters degree from Boston Universitys School of Journalism and lives in New York City, where he researches the history of old houses and, every once in a while, sneaks into abandoned buildings. Email: .
Holly Bauer (production editor) lives in Ye Olde Cambridge, MA, where she is an avid home cook, prolific DIYer, and mid-century modern furniture design enthusiast. Email: .
Nancy Wolfe Kotary (compositor) is a copyeditor, typesetter, and former OReilly production manager with more years of experience in publishing than she cares to count. She is from New Hampshire and lives in Massachusetts but does not worship squirrels or drive like a maniac.
Marcia Simmons (proofreader) is a writer and editor living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Shes author of the book DIY Cocktails. Blog: www.marciaisms.com.
Julie Hawks (indexer) is an indexer for the Missing Manual series. She is currently pursuing a masters degree in Religious Studies while discovering the joys of warm winters in the Carolinas. Email: .
Murray R. Summers (technical reviewer) is an Adobe Certified Dreamweaver Developer and Community Professional. He has co-authored and contributed chapters to several books on Dreamweaver, been the technical editor for the last seven editions of the Dreamweaver Missing Manual, and presented at multiple national conferences. His company, Great Web Sights, has been active in web development since 1998. Murray lives in southern Delaware with his wife Suzanne. One daughter attends Clemson University, and the other is a skilled web developer ( carolinawebcreations.biz ). His two sons live and work in Virginia Beach.
Danilo Celic, Jr . (technical reviewer) has been using Dreamweaver since version 1.2. In the years since, he has contributed to the Dreamweaver community in a variety of capacities. He has been a co-author, technical editor, and technical reviewer for a shelf full of Dreamweaver- and Web-related books. He loves sharing what he has learned over the years of the inner workings of Dreamweaver and various web technologies. Danilo lives in the suburbs of Chicago with his wife, Melissa, who patiently forgives the late hours he puts in in front of a glowing screen. Email: .
Acknowledgments
Thanks to all those who have helped with this book (and all of my books over the years): my students, colleagues, and the wonderful people at OReilly. Thanks to Murray Summers and Danilo Celic for their careful scrutiny and erudite corrections to my writing; thanks also to Peter McKie, for making my writing more energetic and clearer.
Dave McFarland
The Missing Manual Series
Missing Manuals are witty, superbly written guides to computer products that dont come with printed manuals (which is just about all of them). Each book features a handcrafted index.
Recent and upcoming titles include:
Access 2010: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald
Abobe Edge Preview 5: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover
Buying a Home: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner
CSS: The Missing Manual, Second Edition by David Sawyer McFarland
Creating a Website: The Missing Manual, Third Edition by Matthew MacDonald
David Pogues Digital Photography: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
Dreamweaver CS5.5: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland
Droid 2: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla
Droid X2: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla
Excel 2010: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald
Facebook: The Missing Manual, Third Edition by E.A. Vander Veer
FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual by Susan Prosser and Stuart Gripman
Flash CS6: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover
Galaxy S II: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla
Galaxy Tab: The Missing Manual by Preston Gralla
Google+: The Missing Manual by Kevin Purdy
Google Apps: The Missing Manual by Nancy Conner
Google SketchUp: The Missing Manual by Chris Grover
HTML5: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald
iMovie 11 & iDVD: The Missing Manual by David Pogue and Aaron Miller
iPad: The Missing Manual, Fourth Edition by J.D. Biersdorfer
iPhone: The Missing Manual, Fifth Edition by David Pogue
iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual by Craig Hockenberry
iPhoto 11: The Missing Manual by David Pogue and Lesa Snider
iPod: The Missing Manual, Tenth Edition by J.D. Biersdorfer and David Pogue
JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual, Second Edition by David Sawyer McFarland
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Mac OS X Lion: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
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