Dreamweaver MX 2004 Design Projects

Rating:
Summary: Overclaims - Underdelivers
Review: The publishers promise more than the book delivers. In Project 1 (20% of the book) non-code design issues are dealt with in a summary fashion. CSS code is built directly, without reference to the DW Manage Styles interface. Passing reference is made to DW's Templates. Much is left to your own skill set. The downloadable files degrade poorly in IE6. If you need to expand your DW skills:- Avoid. If you just want to code CSS:- consider.

Rating:
Summary: This book doesn't know who it's audience is
Review: This book goes through 4 examples of real webpages and how they might be done. The book is written by four people and that's probably where the issue is.

It sounds like the book is aimed towards beginners, but touches on some advanced topics. It touches a little on CSS, a little on PHP/mysql, a little on design in general, etc It just sounds like the four authors didn't coordinate well.

If you are an advanced user, this book may be good in finding out how to do certain functionalities easier with dreamweaver, but still too much writing to read for that use. You may consider just getting a Dreamweaver reference manual by somebody else in that case.