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Summary: You need pretty big hands
Review: Jammed with useful information, organized in a well-thought out fashion. It's huge, so one has to commit to spending a lot of time to profit from the lessons, but profit you will. Dreamweaver 4 is a superb HTML WYSIWYG, & this book will arm the serious user with the means to take advantage of it. Weinman strikes again.
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Summary: Learning Dreamweaver could not be easier than this!
Review: Kudos to Garo Green and Lynda Weinman for such an outstanding book. This book makes learning Dreamweaver 4 not only easy but enjoyable. I am one of those people who find learning a new program to be a "pull your hair out" experience, largely because most of the books out there designed to "teach" you the program are nothing more than expanded users manuals and learning from those types of books is a very painful experience. A *good* book should teach you by example with projects, as if you are taking a class. This book is such a book. The entire time you're using the book, you're actually being instructed and building sites and pages with Dreamweaver. If only ALL computer books could be like this one...Many reviewers state this is a great book for beginner to intermediate users. I agree with that. The success of this book could easily spawn an "Advanced Dreamweaver HOT" book which I would buy the day it was released if Garo decided to write one. =) Also, a Fireworks HOT book would probably be just as popular. With this book, learning Dreamweaver is no more difficult than learning Frontpage or any of the so-called "easier" editors. Highly, highly recommmended reading.
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Summary: Best Training Available
Review: Lynda Weinman and Garo Green have written the clearest, and consequently, easiest of any tutorial book I've ever used. No details are omitted. I highly recommend this text for anyone who is just starting with Dreamweaver4.
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Summary: Great Desk Reference
Review: Lynda Weinman knows her stuff. This is a great book to use as either an introduction to Dreamweaver or as a quick reference. One of the the better Dreamweaver books.
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Summary: Just learning DW4? Buy this book!
Review: Outstanding... You can tell the authors of this book are teachers and not just writers. This is evident in the step-by-step, clear and concise instruction they give us on how to accomplish each objective in the book. I'm a software instructor at a business school in PA. I teach ages from 18 to 78 in my classes. I know so well that people just don't "get it" if they can't follow along and work the problems with the instructor. There is a place out there for reference books, you know the ones... they regurgitate all the information that comes with the user manual for the software, but I don't find these very helpful when learning a new program. This is defiantly not one of those books. The authors don't hedge on the advanced stuff either. There are a few chapters near the end of the book that require some conceptual thinking (working with timelines comes to mind), but here again, the reader is in good hands all the way. And for those really difficult concepts there are Quick Time movies that demonstrate exactly how it's supposed to be done. There are aprox. 630 pages of instruction in the book, and I chewed it all up in a couple days. Do I remember everything I read? Heck no! But I understand what I read, and now I can go back and start applying the lessons to my own website. Even if I don't remember each step exactly, I comprehend the concepts and can always use the book to look the steps up again if I need to. Oh, and by the way... I just read another person's review of the Dreamweaver 4 Bible. The reviewer observed that the author of that book, while very long on explanations of HOW to do things, was very short on suggestions on WHEN to do things. This is one of the things I appreciated most about Garo and Weinman's teaching style. They are always quick to point out the pros and cons of nearly everything (Using frames for instance). They tell you when something will work in IE but not in Netscape. They tell you when some DW4 feature is not supported in an earlier version of either browser... and then give their opinion on whether or not it's worth putting in your website. I find this to be extremely helpful. I am brand new to DW (although I have about a zillion hours in working with FrontPage 2000), so I can't speak to those of you who are wondering if the advanced topics are meaty enough for you, but for you beginners out there here are some words of advice: Buy this book. You will take weeks off your learning curve if you just start here and ignore all the other books on the shelf clamoring for your money. My only regret is that there is not a serious advanced DW4 HOT book.
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Summary: Dreamweaver 4- Hands-On Training
Review: The Lynda.com format really works--and a good example of this is Dreamweaver 4- Hands-On Training. As a graphic designer with strong Quark, Illustrator and Photoshop skills, I was wary and fearful of learning Macromedia's Dreamweaver. But after a friend recommended this book, I saw, I bought and now am in the process of conquering. Lynda and Garo take you through building a web site in a very methodical way--with good sidebar explanations and small movies of some of the more complex stuff. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Fast & to the point training resource
Review: This book and companion CD were very helpful. After finishing it, I am very confident that I can accompolish most any project using Dreamweaver. The lessons are fast and do what they say they will do at the beginning of each lesson. There are many pointers that have helped me to understand better the way HTML works. I have a better understanding of conventions that I have used for years in Frontpage. I immediately ordered the next H.O.T. Book on Flash. The H.O.T. series is a must if you are just beginning to learn Macromedia Products.
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Summary: A Treat
Review: This book is a wonderful beginner's overview of Dreamweaver 4. And it's actually written by people who know how to teach the subject! (Unfortunately, so many of them aren't...) Writing a successful book of this type is not just a matter of grasping your subject, but also of knowing how to convey the information. This books succeeds on all counts.
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Summary: Great captures in book.
Review: This book is great. I bought the Macromedia book for Dreamweaver and sent it back because it advertised as being a book for learning Dreamweaver4 and Fireworks. The book turned out to be only for Fireworks. This curent book has a lot of information and great screen captures. It also includes a CD that has Trial copies of Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Netscape and Internet Explorer. Enjoy
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Summary: Great book because it's great for newbies to the program
Review: This book is really good for new users of Dreamweaver. I have hand-coded HTML for a couple years, and have used (that other web design program ... shudder), Frontpage, too. I liked Frontpage for it's server extensions, and how easy the program made some kinds of tasks, but of course Dreamweaver is the Cadillac to the Frontpage Pinto. Anyway, Lynda's book is great! I started with no knowledge of Dreamweaver and ended with a feeling of confidence enough to explore the function of the program on my own, but also a sense that I knew enough about Dreamweaver to really design web pages with it. If you do buy this book, don't skip any chapters. The page after page of hands-on exercises this book contains will guide you comfortably through material that out of another book would fill you with insecurity. Really, the "Dreamweaver 4 Hand On Training" book makes learning the intimidating comfortable. I've coded HTML and designed webpages from scratch for years. I have no belief in the whining complaint that "stuff for newbies" is not what you should find in an introductory book. A "newbie" is some kind of less-than-equal to a normal person, I guess. But if your only problem is that you don't have a lot of trust in your ability to get yourself through learning Dreamweaver 4 at top speed while you're using Dreamweaver 4 to design websites for real clients ... then buy Lynda's book. And if you fear being associated with newbies, and you have lots of patience, then why don't you buy the "Dreamweaver 4 Ultra-reference" and learn the basics of Dreamweaver from a 1000 page tome with all the reference information you'll ever need. I can't recommend Lynda's book more highly. Buy "H.O.T. Dreamweaver 4" to learn Dreamweaver 4 effectively. Do it for yourself, and ignore any threatening feelings of "newbieness".
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