6/27/08
The example files have been updated to include the correct version of the details_RomanHoliday.xls file. If this is your first time, please read all this page before downloading the 204mb file. If you already know the drill, have at it. Btw, if you downloaded the example site before 6/23/08, just grab this one file (details_RomanHoliday.xls.zip) and you can skip redownloading the whole example file.

Once the example file is downloaded and expanded, the enclosed files can be used in several ways, depending on your learning style. You can download them and then use them to literally follow along with every step in Creating a Web Site in Dreamweaver CS3: Visual QuickProject Guide. Or you use them as a starting point for building your pages by replacing the text and images with your own.

I'd recommend the step-by-step approach and then starting clean to build your own site—but that's just my learning style. In any case, these files won't make sense unless you also buy the book. One more thing: I have not included the files used to create a Flash video and Quicktime video in Chapter 3 because they're huge and would clog my server. Besides, you don't really need them to do the steps on pages 29-32.

I've tried to organize the example files as simply as possible. But because all the pages are linked to external style sheets, I've had to create before and after versions of the html and css files for every example. It makes for a lot of files, I know. But otherwise, you'd find yourself in the impossible situation trying to create a new style rule that would already exist in the style sheet. If you know of a simpler solution, email me.

Using the example files

All the example files are compressed as a single archive, dwCS3_example_site.zip. Once you download it, just double-click to expand it as a single folder named dwCS3_example_site (A). This folder contains all the files for the fake "Destinations" travel site shown throughout the book, including that site's external style sheet (maindestinations.css). The folder also contains chapter-by-chapter versions of that site as it's built over the course of the book (B).

Within the BOOK_examples_by_chapter folder, you'll find folders for each chapter (C). (There isn't a chap01 folder because that chapter just offers an overview of Dreamweaver.) Each chapter folder contains paired example files of what the page looks like before you start working on it and what it should look like after you're done. The file names attempt to make the pairings obvious, for example, a1_Chap04example.B4tableAdd.html and a2_Chap04example.AFTERtableAdd.html (D). Each chapter folder also contains its own external style sheet (E), or several sheets in some cases.

Once you download the archive and expand it, use Dreamweaver to define it as its own local site, as explained on pages 7-8 in the book. Or, if you don't find it confusing, you can drag the whole folder directly into your own Dreamweaver site. Either way, now that you've read all this, here's the file to download.
Enjoy.

PS: If you're looking for the page file used to create the image map on page 67 of the book, it's in the example zip file and named take_your_pick.html. It contains the map of Europe, which is named europemap.gif.