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Summary: Unleashed is best
Review: I have bought several books on Dreamweaver MX and Sams seemed to have figured it out with this one. It has far more information than the Dreamweaver Bible, and Inside Dreamweaver. It is well written and contains great information on all levels of web site development and management.The example are clear, and really teach you how to get the most out of Dreamweaver. It's one of the best software books I bought in a while. Great Job!
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Summary: As a Useful Intro, Belies the title
Review: I'm a very experienced computer professional, but I've never developed my own website from scratch. I've always thought it was a more design-oriented task than to do much with software development. When I agreed to help a club I'm involved with build a website, I decided to tackle learning Dreamweaver. A book called "Unleashed" makes me figure that it's about getting the most power out of a tool. This book falls short of that goal as its treatment of the subject is very broad and not that deep. I found just enough information to get me started with the features I wanted to use, and a few tips on how to use them properly. The title has a few walkthroughs which make basic pages and a couple of simple sites. After working through them, I felt like I could competantly build my own sites and get to work, but I didn't think that I had "unleashed" anything. The book's shallow coverage is almost necessary as Dreamweaver is a very rich product. But the book makes matters worse by trying to cover every aspect of the secondary technologies that Deramweaver touches. The book uses pages and pages of space to cover installing five or six different web servers -- as if those products don't come with their own documentation. Another fault that spreads the book thin is the use of different authors on a chapter-by-chapter basis. A guy named Thomas Myer drops out of the sky to write Chapter 16 as an "Introduction to Web Applications", and there's no surprise that it fits awkwardly with the main author's Chapter 18 on using "Dreamweaver MX for Application Development". More and more publishers use multiple authors as a technique to reduce the time-to-market, and perhaps the cost, of developing a new title. Unfortunately, the technique just as often dilutes the value of the book. At the very least, it reveals the publisher's priorities. I can't ding the title or the author for this shortcoming, but the publisher needs to hear about it: the binding is terrible. I used my copy pretty regularly at the computer for about two weeks and was surprised to find that it's already losing pages! They simply slip out of the binding, incorrectly glued. I'm well aware of the production costs of a book, but it's hard to feel good about dropping forty bucks on something that comes apart in my lap. The book gets four stars from me, but I needed an entry-level tutorial and not a high-end reference. I found other books that fill the latter role, and if you have a need for a book to introduce you to Dreamweaver, this can fill that requirement well.
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Summary: SAVE YOUR MONEY
Review: proofread your book. I reiterate the first review.
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Summary: extensive - covers all the bases
Review: This book is pretty much like the other Dreamweaver MX books I looked at, but I liked the clean layout, organization, and imagery of this one. The book covers the basics of how to create HTML pages and add interactivity to them. There is nothing special here, but the bases are covered in a clear and concise manner. About half of the book is dedicated to creating interactivity through the use of programming and databases. These topics seem to be explained with more detail than the others in the book, which is good for someone like me who needs the help.
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Summary: Great Dreamweaver Book
Review: This book is the best resource for Macromedia's latest version of Dreamweaver. You can tell this book has been written from the ground up about the MX version and is not some reproduced Dreamweaver 4 reference. We have it work and everyone seems to get quite a bit out of it. The new web personel - who need to get up a running in Dreamweaver fast have found it very useful, as did myself coming from UltraDev 4 experience. If you need an all in one solution for Dreamweaver MX - than this is your book.
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Summary: Its useless
Review: This book is useless. The scope is so broad you are only fed with minimal info on each subject. I strongly recommend you DON'T but this book.
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