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Summary: Fluff Content, Useless CD-ROM Material
Review: Take a look at the specs of this book before you purchase: Amazon says it's 9"x6" and 168 pages. If you'll think about that, it's quite small, and the 168 page count includes 42 pages of glossary, index, and front matter. A scant 125 small pages of content, and all of it very introductory (nothing on databases, for instance). Some examples: "Creating an E-mail Link," "Cutting and Pasting Text into Dreamweaver," "Entering Basic Text," ....I've developed several sites in FrontPage, and this book is of little value to current FrontPage users. Given the title, I was expecting something along the lines of "If you do X in FrontPage, do Y in Dreamweaver to accomplish the same task." Nowhere near: the only thing close is a 16-entry, one-page "jargon guide" on the inside back cover. The included CD-ROM is completely bogus: it's actually a video capture of screen shots accompanied by the author reading the text of the book! (Or maybe the book is a transcript of the original training material.) In either case, to install and view the CD-ROM content you must download an IE add-on, plus the video content only includes about the first two and a half chapters of the book; the balance of the content is offered to you in the "Platinum Edition" for the truly amazing sale price... You should be able to glean all this information from the Dreamweaver tutorial. Save your money, buy one of the guy's complete books instead (Dreamweaver 4 Bible, for instance). Why the two-star rating? The author offers to answer readers' e-mailed questions. That's worth something....
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