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Summary: Designers' Life Saving Killer Tips
Review: Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips should be renamed! Lowery and Buraglia put together all the tips that save time, sanity and make life easier for designers and developers. These life saving tips are wrapped up in MX Killer Tips with a refreshing touch of humor. True, these aren't just ordinary tips on how to use Dreamweaver MX. Other books cover those. These are those little known tips about work arounds, hidden features (did you know DW includes a game?)and the various different methods available to accomplish tasks. Oh and for Mac users - the tips cover Mac methods too. Leave it to this team of writers to not only cover the more complexed DWMX interface, but also cover cascading style sheets, browser compatibility, layouts, templates, library and other production items, application and coding tips and last but not least customizing and extensibility tips. Best of all Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips is one of those great "take along" books because each tip is short and concise without requiring you read in any specific order. Next time you are waiting in line somewhere, whip out your copy of Killer Tips and make the wait productive!
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Summary: Designers' Life Saving Killer Tips
Review: Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips should be renamed! Lowery and Buraglia put together all the tips that save time, sanity and make life easier for designers and developers. These life saving tips are wrapped up in MX Killer Tips with a refreshing touch of humor. True, these aren't just ordinary tips on how to use Dreamweaver MX. Other books cover those. These are those little known tips about work arounds, hidden features (did you know DW includes a game?)and the various different methods available to accomplish tasks. Oh and for Mac users - the tips cover Mac methods too. Leave it to this team of writers to not only cover the more complexed DWMX interface, but also cover cascading style sheets, browser compatibility, layouts, templates, library and other production items, application and coding tips and last but not least customizing and extensibility tips. Best of all Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips is one of those great "take along" books because each tip is short and concise without requiring you read in any specific order. Next time you are waiting in line somewhere, whip out your copy of Killer Tips and make the wait productive!
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Summary: Outstanding resource!
Review: From the instant I cracked open the book I was finding nifty efficiency builders that I hadn't know of before--and I've been using DW since the first version. Users tend to get set in their ways and find what works for them, but this takes you to the next level and helps you create, work (and even play) a little quicker. If you're a beginner, this is an outstanding resource. If you're a little more advanced, you're still going to be surprised at what you find.
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Summary: Bring back the pleasure of reading
Review: I am an avid reader of computer books and, the more I read, the more I get tired to see books that only rehash the same material again and again... After reading so many (too many actually) 1000+ pages reference beasts, a book like Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips is not only refreshing, it also bring back the pleasure of reading. Joseph and Angela managed to assemble a terrific amount of first quality tips but also a very pleasant and entertaining read. Do you want to hear something negative? Sure, there are only 232 pages; I wish the book was double the size! A final note, it may appear a little expensive, but the whole Killer Tips series is printed on quality paper and full colours, New Riders delivers a very effective layout and typography job
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Summary: Finally! A book worthy of its title!
Review: I buy many (ok, maybe TOO many!) web design and programming books every month. Most aren't worth the high cost of computer books these days, but Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips by Joseph Lowery and Angela C. Buraglia is worth the money. The book is filled with wonderful and useful tips for the Dreamweaver MX user. Yes, some of the tips are basic items you would find in a normal users guide, but some are worth the price of the book alone! Save time AND money if you do any serious web development with Dreamweaver MX and get this book!
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Summary: Finally! A book worthy of its title!
Review: I buy many (ok, maybe TOO many!) web design and programming books every month. Most aren't worth the high cost of computer books these days, but Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips by Joseph Lowery and Angela C. Buraglia is worth the money. The book is filled with wonderful and useful tips for the Dreamweaver MX user. Yes, some of the tips are basic items you would find in a normal users guide, but some are worth the price of the book alone! Save time AND money if you do any serious web development with Dreamweaver MX and get this book!
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Summary: Tips to die for
Review: I've tech edited several books on Dreamweaver MX and I pretty much thought I knew it all, well I found out you never know it all! This book of about 300 Dreamweaver MX tips didn't wow me at first...I flipped around and saw a bunch of things that I already knew about. But when I sat down and read through the book one tip at a time I began marking tips with post-it notes. When I was 2/3rds of the way through, I had run out of post-its and had to go back and tear previous post-its in half so I could mark the new tips I had found! My wife's father works in organizational development, and has studied many learning techniques and he says that if you learn one thing from a book that saves you time or makes you more effective, then the experience has been a rousing success. By the end of this book, I had over 20 of these "killer tips" marked, and also had a quick refresher about a few things I knew, but didn't use much. This book experience was quite an outstanding success. I'll be keeping the book near my keyboard until I've drummed all of the tips into my brain.
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Summary: Be more tasty in Dreamweaver!
Review: If you already know how to cook in dreamweaver--spice it up! These tips will help you be more productive and help keep up your excitement for Dreamweaver. It is well published in full color and easy to read/flip thru. It is *not* a how to guide for the beginner.
Very simple example from the book: add a standard toolbar so that you can have common buttons such as new, undo, redo at your fingertips (go to view->toolbars->standard) It will appear above your document.
Want more? check out the the author's website: dwkillertips.com
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Summary: Killer Tips is a Killer Resource!
Review: It's refreshing to read an information-packed book that doesn't act like a text book. Killer Tips has a lot of time-saving advice (in fact, I'm *already* using some of it). It is written in a friendly style that is not intimidating, but still very appealing to the professional web designer. As I would say to my students, "this is a great, informative book, and you don't need a big glass of water to get through it!" I like the "instant-access" of the book; you don't have to read cover to cover to get the benefits of it. The concept of the book is great - compiling all those little "tip boxes" into one easy to read tome. This method is very helpful to those of us who are already comfortable with the basics, or those of us who just want to know more - and fast!
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Summary: A collection of Gems
Review: New Riders has done it again. They have assembled a reference book that is written with a sense of wryness, but more importantly, the tips gets straight to point. There is at least one tip on every page and every page has a graphic that compliments the text in such a way, you can see precisely the effect at hand. Tips range from the basic simple tasks to some in-depth codes. Every level of Macromedia user would benefit from this book. With a whole spectrum of hints, secrets and tips, they have organized, what could have been a potential mess, into a smart collection of subjects. They also take into consideration of the Mac and Window user, by supplying graphics from each arena, to leave no one out. One aspect I appreciate, is when a tip will not work for a specific browser, they state it in the very beginning, letting you determine if you want to continue with that tip. Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips will make an excellent addition next to your work area.
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