Dreamweaver MX 2004 Complete Course

Rating:
Summary: PAINFUL
Review: If you want to know what it feels like to read this book, go to the center of an IKEA on a crowded Saturday afternoon, smoke a bowl of heroin-laced crack and try to find your way out.

Not since enduring the 24-hour Book of Mormon read-a-thon (too much to explain here) has reading been so traumatic. I know multiple Operating Systems, Applications, Programming Languages and have designed web-sites using straight HTML. Yet when I attempted these tutorials I found myself frustrated, confused and brain-dead.

Every single time I came to a step that didn't make sense, I'd reference the pictorial and, like clockwork, it was always the only step not pictured. I realized, after about 10 of these consecutive incidents, that the pictorial reference was a big joke. When arriving at the legendary 30-step tutorial called "Adding Rollovers" my book lay face-open on my desk for 4 days straight while I re-composed myself from all the trauma in the previous 135 pages. No application could possibly be as complicated as what is presented in this book.

If you are thinking about buying this book, please save yourself and close this web browser. Never click on any links that will get you near a buy button. I'm not even going to try and re-sell this on eBay because I can not conscious exposing someone to this agonizing methodical abuse.

I will never forgive Joyce Evans for what she has done. The anti-Christ is here and it's named Dreamweaver MX 2004 Complete Course.




Rating:
Summary: Very Helpful
Review: My gosh, that previous review is harsh. Thankfully, I didn't read it before purchasing this book. That other reviewer must have an extremely low frustration threshhold (or maybe works for a competing publisher?) because the truth is that through this book Joyce Evan really got me up to speed with Dreamweaver MX with a minimum of pain. Not only that, her website reflects a tremendous respect for customers and readers. I have worked as a concert violinist, a music teacher, a college computer science instructor and cirriculum developer, and I have seen a wide variety of teaching materials. This book ranks with the best.