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Dreamweaver MX: A Beginner's Guide

Dreamweaver MX: A Beginner's Guide

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent book
Review: A thorough and well written introduction to Dreamweaver MX. Explain meny terms that might be useful for beginners and that help you to "see the whole picture". Great section on Dynamic websites, with walk throug examples.
One of the better IT books that I have got my hans on so far.....

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent book
Review: A thorough and well written introduction to Dreamweaver MX. Explain meny terms that might be useful for beginners and that help you to "see the whole picture". Great section on Dynamic websites, with walk throug examples.
One of the better IT books that I have got my hans on so far.....

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: This book is mis-titled
Review: I've been using Dreamweaver for about 6 years, and also started doing ColdFusion development for a little over a year. I happened to come across this book only by accident when doing a search at the library for subjects related to SQL (database for backend development). I checked this book out figuring that it probably had a chapter or two related to backend development work. Surprise, surprise. Over half the book is dedicated to building database driven web sites.

If anyone is a believer is utilizing a good backend to power your web pages, it's me, but to call this book a BEGINNERS GUIDE is truly a disservice. The problem with books written by most APPLICATION DEVELOPERS (which this is) is that they tend to forget the core audience will most likely be coming from a ZERO KNOWLEDGE base. This is definitely the case here, where over half the book is dedicated to building database driven websites and technology explanations on how to achieve that. Unfortunately it does so at the expense of truly being a BEGINNER'S GUIDE, by quickly touching on topics that would be better explained, both in words and pictures.

As a reference book for getting some basic skills on doing appliction development work, it's admittedly not bad. BUT, if you're a beginner hoping to learn Dreamweaver from the ground up and to start building web pages utilizing the many tools that Dreamweaver has to offer, there are better books to be had.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent for beginners
Review: The book covers the basics of creating a dynamic web site, from the HTML and CSS all the way to the database that drives the site. If you want to learn dynamic sites, this is the book for you. This is not just a glorified "this menu does this" book--it has some substance.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not a beginner's book
Review: This book contains a lot of info but it is not a beginner's book into the world of creating web sites - but a beginner's book into this particular version of Dreamweaver, despite what the "Who should buy this book" paragraph says.
I also found the descriptions of some of the procedures was not explained as well as they could be.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not a beginner's book
Review: This book contains a lot of info but it is not a beginner's book into the world of creating web sites - but a beginner's book into this particular version of Dreamweaver, despite what the "Who should buy this book" paragraph says.
I also found the descriptions of some of the procedures was not explained as well as they could be.


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