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Summary: Excellent resource!
Review: As with other Visual Quickstart Guides, this book had me working in no time at all. It covers everything you need to know to get started with Dreamweaver MX and even goes a little deeper for more advanced users.
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Summary: Excellent resource!
Review: As with other Visual Quickstart Guides, this book had me working in no time at all. It covers everything you need to know to get started with Dreamweaver MX and even goes a little deeper for more advanced users.
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Summary: Basic... At best.
Review: I bought this book because I wanted to learn this program. On the back of the book it says beiginner-advanced which is completely untrue. The book is very basic and is one I would call a "bonehead" book. The book is nice because of the pictures included but would be very confusing to a novice. This book is only good for a reference, or if you've just started learning dreamweaver, but even then, there are many other books out there such as Inside Dreamweaver MX that are much better to learn from.
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Summary: Basic... At best.
Review: I bought this book because I wanted to learn this program. On the back of the book it says beiginner-advanced which is completely untrue. The book is very basic and is one I would call a "bonehead" book. The book is nice because of the pictures included but would be very confusing to a novice. This book is only good for a reference, or if you've just started learning dreamweaver, but even then, there are many other books out there such as Inside Dreamweaver MX that are much better to learn from.
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Summary: Dreamweaver 4 repeat
Review: I got started with Dreamweaver 4 using the prevision edition of the Visual Quickstart book that I checked out from the library. I dislike online help because I get frustrated figuring out what to lookup. If you're a starter, you most likely have no clue about the web design lingo. I learned, without much pain, how to do navigation bars, library items, layers, timelines, tables, and frames. This is a great book for starters, but I won't buy it because it's a repeat of Dreamweaver 4's Visual Quickstart, and I am no longer a starter.
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Summary: best lookup book
Review: I have 5 dreamweaver books that are all different. Tarin's visual quickstart guide is almost always the first book I reach for trying to find an answer. It is not always there, and it is not always clear, it is not always covering every detail, but it is the book with the least blah blah and the most to the point and step by step instructions on how to get something done. Especially for the price definitely a must have for me. There are not many screenshots - as opposed to what also the other titles in these series might suggest - so they all should rather be called "The Peachpit QuickSTEP Guides."
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Summary: O.K. but...
Review: I just got done with this book and I have to say that it is just O.K. that is if you just want to learn the UI of Dreamweaver MX. It helps to know Code and you can move quickly through the book if you do know code. Or if you have worked with something similar before like Adobe Golive. Their are some annoying problems with this book though. 1. Every few pages the author tells you to look up information on the books website. While this book is over 700 pages long. 2. At the latter parts of the book, the screen shots are printed so small that you can't tell what the author is pointing to, and notice the amount of white space on those pages. 3. And finally some of the content that is said to be online is not. Don't bother with the given email address for feedback or assistance. They don't answer! Having some back ground in the industry and just wanted to learn the UI of Dreamweaver MX (after using Golive for the past 4 years) I would have to say that this book was a quick help and a good book over all. Thanks for reading this, and good luck to all.
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Summary: Dreamweaver by Tarin Towers
Review: I really like this book. I'm pretty good at computers but I was stumped when trying to learn Dreamweaver on my own. The book breaks learning down in to easy to follow steps, and includes information for MAC users as well, although not as frequently as I'd like. Ms. Towers has tons of personality, and it comes through in her text. Unlike the other reviewer, I like how the book is organzied. It is written very sequentially so that the reader builds upon thier skills, even if this means not learning everything there is to know about a function until a later chapter. The author always notes this, and tells the reader where to skip ahead to if they need the advanced stuff now.
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Summary: Missing info, poor organization, good basic resource
Review: I've been using this to help learn Dreamweaver and while it's a good resource for basic information, it's definitely a mixed experience.
It seemed that every time that the book started heading toward a subject I found useful (timelines, animations, hotspots), the book would direct me to the appendices on their website. This was extremely frustrating. Plus some of these appendices were completely missing, like timelines and animations (Appendix N). I wanted to create an image slideshow -- advanced but not overly so -- but since the book was missing this subject completely, I had to patch together the information from a search on google.com.
And sometimes it's helpful if a book tells me what a program CAN'T do, so that I don't spend hours wasting my time on something won't work anyway. This book fails to do this, unlike the excellent Missing Manual guides.
I had a good experience with Peachpit's Photoshop 6 book, but this book has really turned me off from their products.
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Summary: Missing info, poor organization, good basic resource
Review: I've been using this to help learn Dreamweaver and while it's a good resource for basic information, it's definitely a mixed experience. It seemed that every time that the book started heading toward a subject I found useful (timelines, animations, hotspots), the book would direct me to the appendices on their website. This was extremely frustrating. Plus some of these appendices were completely missing, like timelines and animations (Appendix N). I wanted to create an image slideshow -- advanced but not overly so -- but since the book was missing this subject completely, I had to patch together the information from a search on google.com. And sometimes it's helpful if a book tells me what a program CAN'T do, so that I don't spend hours wasting my time on something won't work anyway. This book fails to do this, unlike the excellent Missing Manual guides. I had a good experience with Peachpit's Photoshop 6 book, but this book has really turned me off from their products.
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