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Summary: The Complete Beginner's Guide
Review: Although mainly written for the beginning Web design student, I found this book to be a fun review of my own roots in basic HTML and the Web, in general. Also, being new to Dreamweaver's way of doing things, I found the book to be a complete and thorough walk-through of Dreamweaver's every feature.I enjoy books that take you step-by-step through the process of a thing. Inside Dreamweaver is a great example of that. Each chapter lays the groundwork for chapters to come. At the same time, each chapter (after introductory chapters are out of the way) gives repeated opportunity to learn and solidify skills by doing a fun example. A fun example? Yeah! I had fun. At least one of the authors (maybe more) has a true flair for simple, yet attractive designs. I've been designing Websites and Web applications (in other programs) for 5 years and I enjoyed the "silent" review of simple design concepts presented-not in words-but in the "good" designs themselves. I'm glad to see a book, like this instruct it's readers in correct practices. I meet allot of Webmasters who have "known" HTML for years, yet struggle with the "new" standards, such as XHTML 1.0. I scratch my head at this. Not much has changed! Only now the standards are enforced and deprecated code will fail. I've been a big believer in standards compliance since first reading "HTML 4.0 - No Experience Required (Sybex)". And now it's nice to see another book, "Inside Dreamweaver", perform the same service to it's readers by letting them know what is and is not recommended. "Inside Dreamweaver" will instill confidence in the beginning student and provide reliable and accurate review of sound Web design principles for both the new and veteran Webmaster.
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Summary: The Complete Beginner's Guide
Review: Although mainly written for the beginning Web design student, I found this book to be a fun review of my own roots in basic HTML and the Web, in general. Also, being new to Dreamweaver's way of doing things, I found the book to be a complete and thorough walk-through of Dreamweaver's every feature. I enjoy books that take you step-by-step through the process of a thing. Inside Dreamweaver is a great example of that. Each chapter lays the groundwork for chapters to come. At the same time, each chapter (after introductory chapters are out of the way) gives repeated opportunity to learn and solidify skills by doing a fun example. A fun example? Yeah! I had fun. At least one of the authors (maybe more) has a true flair for simple, yet attractive designs. I've been designing Websites and Web applications (in other programs) for 5 years and I enjoyed the "silent" review of simple design concepts presented-not in words-but in the "good" designs themselves. I'm glad to see a book, like this instruct it's readers in correct practices. I meet allot of Webmasters who have "known" HTML for years, yet struggle with the "new" standards, such as XHTML 1.0. I scratch my head at this. Not much has changed! Only now the standards are enforced and deprecated code will fail. I've been a big believer in standards compliance since first reading "HTML 4.0 - No Experience Required (Sybex)". And now it's nice to see another book, "Inside Dreamweaver", perform the same service to it's readers by letting them know what is and is not recommended. "Inside Dreamweaver" will instill confidence in the beginning student and provide reliable and accurate review of sound Web design principles for both the new and veteran Webmaster.
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Summary: 10 Solid Pounds of Information
Review: An outstanding resource for anyone serious about learning as much as possible about DWMX within one title. It does a great job of explaining technical tasks and terms without coming across as technical. If you are a current DW designer, this book will take you beyond interface design issues and kindly introduce you to the developmental support that DWMX has become so robust in. If you are currently a developer, this book will give you good reference as to how MX handles ColdFusion, JSP and other common developmental tasks. Of course, if you are altogether new to Dreamweaver, Inside DWMX is a great place to start. I can't recall a single title that was so comprehensive and yet geared towards novices and experienced users alike. It's not the most artistic book out there, but it is full of good no-nonsense tasks and explanations... more than enough to get you up and running without a bunch of unnecessary eye candy.
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Summary: Should be Required Reading
Review: As an author who has turned down numerous requests to write a Dreamweaver reference book because of how daunting a task it is, my hat goes off to Ms. Gutman, Ms. Ayers, and Mr. Booth for a job very well done. As far as I'm concerned, this is "the" definitive Dreamweaver MX reference work and should not be overlooked. Get it on your bookshelves ASAP.
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Summary: Buyer Beware!
Review: Don't be fooled by people who may have read "Inside Dreamweaver MX" but didn't actually follow any of the step-by-step instructions. The three authors must have written the book using a beta version of Dreamweaver MX. Numerous commands that you are instructed to choose simply aren't there. Also, files you are instructed to copy from the CD aren't there or you have to be creative because the reference in the book doesn't match the name of the file on the CD. It is painfully apparent that the collaborative efforts of the three authors failed (in my opinion). As a technical writer/web designer who is an expert in HTML, CSS and JavaScript but new to Dreamweaver, I read very carefully and follow instructions. When they repeatedly don't work as written, I place the book along with the others in my archives (I don't have the audacity to sell the used, poorly written copy to some unsuspecting fool on Amazon[.com] or eBay). Bottom line? If you buy this book, open the package and immediately put it into the strongest vice you have. When you're through compressing the ten-pound volume, you might end up with one pound of accurate information. The last book of this magnitude that I bought online had 26 pages of errata on their website. In summary, for those of you who are appalled because you gave "Inside Dreamweaver MX" 5 stars, my advice to you is, "follow some of the step-by-step instructions" and maybe you will feel my pain.
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Summary: DreamweaverMX
Review: DreamweaverMX is a must have book for any site designer's bookshelf and tool box of knowledge.
The book gives completeness in a sea of books on the market that just simply want to skim over the top and leave the reader hungry for more knowledge. I look forward to more books by Laura Gutman.
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Summary: Good Book for Web Programmer
Review: I am an experienced JSP and PHP programmer. I recently need to do some web design by myself. I have dreamweaver installed on my computer for a long time, but have never go a chance to explore the rich capabilities of this software. So I bought this book as a used one from Amazon market place for $11. To my surprise, this turns out to be a very good book. Not only does it explains practical uses of the software, it teaches design principles as well. I spent 1 whole day and I finished 500 pages already. Most of examples are easy to follow. I think within 3 days, I should be able to work smoothly with Dreamweaver. To whoever still doing handcoding HTML, I recommend this book.
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Summary: Dreamweaver MX Disappointment
Review: I found this book to be exceedingly slow to get started and very tedious to work with. While there seems to be a vast amount of information, the flow was awkward and the tutorials took too long to get to the point of anything. I am no stranger to web sites and instructional material so I was very disappointed to have invested in this book only to find it wanting. I believe we all learn best by doing and this book seems to take that approach, however, I continually found the book exploring the minutia of this very capable program, at the expense of accomplishing the stated learning goals.
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Summary: Not a very good book.
Review: I'm very dissapointed in this one. I'm not new to HTML, CSS or webwriting, but new to Dreamweaver. This book is literally littered with errors, mistakes and other incorrectnesses. It doesn't look like the proof reader had a bad day; he simply wasn't there! The single chapter about CSS alone is worth looking at other books. It [is not good] is a major understatement. Better look at an online free tutorial for that chapter.
Ms. Gutman knows here stuff, so much is clear. But being a teacher is a different profession, and not all can do that. Ms. Gutman clearly can't. A less experienced writer with better teaching skills could do a much better job. I'm currently trying to negotiate a refund from the publisher. I rate this book that bad.
I bougth it because it has ASP, ASP.NET and PHP tutorials.Had these been absent, I would have gone for the Dreamweaver MX bible. A MUCH better choice. I rate it one star, because lower is not possible.
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Summary: A Dreaweaver reference for every situation
Review: I've been working with Dreamweaver since its inception, and this is the most comprehensive book i have found on this great application. My first impression of a book is usually by scanning through it to find answers to any long standing unanswered questions i've had about the app. Well, this book had answers to the first 5 I could think of -- I was sold. Since then it has provided answers to questions i had not thought to ask yet. I depend on this book on a daily basis.
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