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Summary: Dreamweaver Reference
Review: -easy read, with lots to read.
-intermediate to expert, it is a how-to book not a step-by-step.
-good content on database developement.
-no e-book, no dreamweaver eval, download samples and tutorial off of website, no biggie.
-most screenshots are from a Mac.
Rating:
Summary: Dreamweaver Reference
Review: -easy read, with lots to read.
-intermediate to expert, it is a how-to book not a step-by-step.
-good content on database developement.
-no e-book, no dreamweaver eval, download samples and tutorial off of website, no biggie.
-most screenshots are from a Mac.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent for Designer and Developer
Review: Having just purchased Dreamweaver MX, I needed a book to cover just about every feature and this one fit the bill perfectly. My main reasons for buying this book: I wanted to know the little details about DW-MX that I had glossed over previously: integration with Fireworks, library items, templates and site management, as well as database integration. This book explains those features simply and straightforwardly. There are some excellent chapters to get you up and running connecting your pages to a database using ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, JSP and ColdFusion. I also needed to learn more about ASP.NET integration, datasets and datagrids in particular. The authors provide clear and concise explanations and tutorials which explain not only how to do it but why it's done like it is. One of the chapters explains how to create your own public extensions for placement on Macromedia's Exchange site. Customization of MX's interface is also explained in this chapter (very cool stuff). This one won't collect dust on my shelf like so many books I bought previously.
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Summary: Great Dreamweaver Book
Review: Hello,
I have been looking for a complete Dreamweaver MX book written by gurus and or professionals for over a year now. This is a complete tutorial,manual and experienced user's directive bundled into one pretty book. It is by far the most educative and concise self-study book for Dreamweaver MX...believe me i have read a lot of books by the Wrox ..I used much of the recent snowed in days in the D.C /M.D area to bull-doze through this book. I have discovered techniques i could not get from any other source. I have been using Dreamweaver MX for over 8 months now and this book is still teaching me new things. It is concise authoritative, intuitive,has great graphics, great sequence description, and some invaluable real world experience. The most mind-blowing technique i am impressed with right now is the " shopping cart functionality" . The the Chapters on "RecordSets" are very user friendly..I had no idea Dreamweaver MX was loaded with that much dynamic power. Mathew Pizzi and Ruvalcaba are "off the hook."
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Summary: This book is phenomenal and mind-blowing...for real.
Review: Hello,
I have been looking for a complete Dreamweaver MX book written by gurus and or professionals for over a year now. This is a complete tutorial,manual and experienced user's directive bundled into one pretty book. It is by far the most educative and concise self-study book for Dreamweaver MX...believe me i have read a lot of books by the Wrox ..I used much of the recent snowed in days in the D.C /M.D area to bull-doze through this book. I have discovered techniques i could not get from any other source. I have been using Dreamweaver MX for over 8 months now and this book is still teaching me new things. It is concise authoritative, intuitive,has great graphics, great sequence description, and some invaluable real world experience. The most mind-blowing technique i am impressed with right now is the " shopping cart functionality" . The the Chapters on "RecordSets" are very user friendly..I had no idea Dreamweaver MX was loaded with that much dynamic power. Mathew Pizzi and Ruvalcaba are "off the hook."
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Summary: Broad scope, but full of errors and inacuracies
Review: How could any editor in his/her right mind let any book go to print with this many mistakes? This thing is packed with typos, misspellings, code errors and downright wrong information. There are so many errors, you'd think it was written by Microsoft! I haven't finished the book yet, I'm currently on Chapter 26. I'm slogging through it though, page by page, because there is a lot of good information in it - enough to warrant the two stars. But please, if you're taking the time to write a book, then hire an editor that can proof it, including the code, and fix all your screwups. A typo here or there is forgivable (I'm sure there's a few in this review); a coding error or two is forgivable; but producing a book with this many mistakes, then selling it for a dear sum, is just plain wrong. Oh wait, Microsoft does that with their software, so I guess it's commonplace and accepted. As for the good parts of the book, it does cover many different areas, and I like the fact that it tries to help the reader with dynamic applications and Dreamweaver's excellent database functionality. I am an advanced user of Dreamweaver, but bought this to expand my knowledge in the dynamic webpage field. Even with my strong background, I still found many new things in the first few chapters that helped me out right away. That gave me an initially positive response to the book, despite the typos and other errors I spotted. It's nice that the authors use Mac screenshots and include plenty of Mac-specific information. If you're still using Windows to do design work, then you're in the wrong profession. The book gives a good introduction to web applications and setting up a web server, including integrating it with a database and the use of middleware. However, all the mistakes in the book made it extremely difficult to actually learn something. I made the mistake of trying to set up Apache, Tomcat, PHP and mySQL on a Windows system, and spent many hours on the web trying to fill in the gaps that this book leaves out. I should have followed my initial intuition and went to linux or Mac to do this. The authors of this book should know that there's still a lot of poor souls that use Windows, so they should have included information for both Unix and Windows. For example, the Perl shebang statement in the book is for Unix - they should have both the Unix and Windows flavors. The book covers the asp and asp.net world OK, for those that wish to pay the Microsoft tax for things they could otherwise get for free. So if you (or your company) don't mind the extra expense of Microsoft, then you can learn the basics from this book. All said, I would treat this book as a great way to get started on Dreamweaver or to learn some of the more advanced functions, but to get into PHP, mySQL, Perl, JSP or some of the other topics, you really need a book dedicated just to those topics. I'm not saying that as a criticism of this book, becaust I think that's what the authors intended - it is a Dreamweaver book after all, not a book on those other subjects. But there are just way too many mistakes in this book to make it completely useful. Here's an example: on page 552, they tell you that a PHP array is numbered beginning with 0 - the first element is numbered 0, the second is numbered 1, etc., and give a sample array with five elements. This sample array should be numbered 0 through 4 for the five elements, but in the very next line, they refer to the fifth element as element number 5! Another example is on page 541, item number 5. They tell you right at the top of the page that Java is case sensitive, then they go and enter the code with the wrong case (string instead of String). To make it worse, they used a curly bracket instead of a semicolon.
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Summary: This one deserves a recommendation -
Review: I absolutely cannot say enough good things about this book! These guys did a terrific job on this one. It was the first computer book in a while that has left me feeling like I had a great read, as well as satisfied that I learned everything I needed to know to develop efficiently in Dreamweaver MX. I recommend this book to anyone who wants a clear, well organized approach to learning this program. I even decided to mark, highlight, and tab sections of the book because I plan to keep it around for a long while. I won't be lending this one out. Go get your own!
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Summary: lots of info
Review: I bought this book because i want to know about database connectivity and this book covers enough. the only downside of this book is it doesn't have CD included for a $30+ book(you gonna need to download the files from their website)
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Summary: Great Book, Nice Step by Step with Screen Captures
Review: I have been using Deramweaver since release 3, but finally decided to buy a Deramweaver book. I bought this book after reading that it contained instructions on how to secure a site as well as using MS Access for dynamic asp pages. Wow! If only I had bought this book months ago, I would have saved a lot of time. What I really liked: nice screen captures; step by step database access; how to use extionsions including shopping cart; basic security; dynamic data access; css.... Just to name a few. Good job guys!
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Summary: Great Book, Nice Step by Step with Screen Captures
Review: I have been using Deramweaver since release 3, but finally decided to buy a Deramweaver book. I bought this book after reading that it contained instructions on how to secure a site as well as using MS Access for dynamic asp pages. Wow! If only I had bought this book months ago, I would have saved a lot of time. What I really liked: nice screen captures; step by step database access; how to use extionsions including shopping cart; basic security; dynamic data access; css.... Just to name a few. Good job guys!
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