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Summary: Clean code - Clean style
Review: Neither most Web authoring books nor most college courses have a clue to the radical transformation undergone by HTML in the past few years. Through the influence of the new W3C Document Object Model and the powerful technique of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), modern HTML is far more robust and easy to maintain than in the past. Even the generally excellent Dreamweaver Bible does not deal with CSS until Chapter 27, and then only as something separate from "real" HTML.Sparber and crew know otherwise. They burst out of the starting gate with Chapter 1 "Using CSS to Make Selectable Themes" and never look back. If you are serious about Web work and serious about your Dreamweaver tool, this book will take you to a new level and you won't look back either. Have fun!
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Summary: I Just Got Dreamweaver Magic and IT SMOKES!
Review: I am not one to gush, or even stroke someone for something they do extremely well. A "Thank you" and "atta boy" is typically it, but .... Dreamweaver Magic is A B S O L U T E L Y Incredible. I am just drooling. This is without question the best step-by-step guide to do the most incredibly cool things I have ever seen. In true Project Seven style, the book drips rich, thoughtful and leading edge design, along with practical, step-by-step ways to do things I never knew were possible in Dreamweaver - yet alone ANY web authoring tool. The FULL COLOR illustrations and screen captures are killer. Absolutely amazing. Flipping through the pages the hardest decision you will make is "What design do I want to implement today?" because each sample out does the one before it. No doubt this book will cause some family problems as those of us with spouses bury ourselves in the rich examples and step-by-step instructions. Do not walk, RUN to your favorite online bookseller and get this book EXPRESS delivered. Like the design packs, it is worth 10, maybe 100 times the price. Thank you Al, Gerry and Linda, and the rest of those responsible for this terrific piece of work. A stunned and overwhelmed lifetime supporter of your efforts from now on ~...
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Summary: Wow!
Review: As a beta tester for 2 of this book's chapters, I am totally convinced this book is going to be on every dream weaver's shelf. The css theme changer alone is worth the price of entry. Although I've not yet seen the entire book in its printed format, what I have seen is truly groundbreaking stuff. Author Sparber is truly a Dreamweaver god, and contributors Gerry Jacobsen (Al's partner and author of one of the chaprters I tested), Murray Summers, Craig Foster, and Linda Rathgeber are no slouches either! Kudos on an inspirational masterpiece. Gosh. I didn't know Dreamweaver could be extended to do such cool stuff!
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Summary: Dreamweaver 4 Magic
Review: Unfortunately, I found this book just a rehash of other author's original concepts. Mr. Sparber is apparently too busy inflating his own macromedia dev. exchange ratings to dedicate quality time to authoring useful material. Besides unintelligible grammar and poor editing, this publication offers nothing new and exciting. Pass.
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Summary: Slanderous
Review: The Review dated July 15th 2004 by anonymous "reader" is obviously written by a person who has not read the book. The nature of the attack: "Mr. Sparber is apparently too busy inflating his own macromedia dev. exchange ratings to dedicate quality time to authoring useful material..." is likely the work of one of several obscure Macromedia Extension authors, who were discovered to be manipulating the ratings of Sparber's Dreamweaver extensions on the Macromedia Exchange in an effort to advance their own ratings. Sparber, along with Macromedia, discovered the manipulation and Macromedia banned the perpetrators from the Exchange. Apparently one of them is expressing his ill will.
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Summary: Dreamweaver 4 Magic
Review: I can?t understand why so many people are so mad about this book. It?s not really about learning Dreamweaver, it is about the extensions that are on the CD and how to use them. Nothing more nothing less. The extensions are good, all right, but you can get many great extensions for free legally on the net, even at the official Macromedia homepage. And more often than not these extensions are so easy to use that you don?t really need to spend a lot of bucks for a book that tells you how to use them inside Dreamweaver. All the extensions are about Javascript, so if you don?t want to force your websites` users to have Javascript enabled on their browsers then this book isn?t for you.
Four stars anyway for the nice choice of extensions, which keeps you from spending hours on the net to find the extensions you need and because without a book like this one many people might not be aware of the power and ease of Dreamweaver extensions.
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Summary: Great Book - Not the usual how to...
Review: This book is great. The examples that are used can really be used in real life situations. This is the best book for learning to use Dreamweaver. Each lesson demonstrates how to use dreamweaver to create websites that you can really use. The authors are top notch and I recommend this book 100%
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