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Summary: Novices and Beginners Take Heart!
Review: Great, easy to read. Both for beginners and professionals.
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Summary: Totally Comprehensive
Review: I bought this book because I was trying to learn Dreamweaver and needed a good reference...little did I know that it would also help me with other aspects of web programming. This book has become my first reference for all things HTML and DHTML, and it answers most questions in an easily understandable fashion. Unlike many software training books/manuals, this one is neither too complex nor too simple. I STRONGLY recommend it to anyone trying to learn Dreamweaver 2 or 3. The spine of the book declares it's 100% comprehensive, and that's not far off (the only things I've not be able to find are certain JavaScript aids and information regarding database integration (this book has a whole chapter on integrating Cold Fusion, so if you use that, then Woohoo!...but if not, you're SOL). Buy it! I will definitely look for more books by the same author, whenever I need HTML or Macromedia help.
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Summary: Best book out there for Dreamweaver 2
Review: I have about 3-4 years of HTML experience but I wanted to improve the time it takes me to create pages, so I got into Dreamweaver. There are two important parts to Dreamweaver outside of knowing HTML, which are (1) working with the Graphical Interface (ie- where to click) and (2) working with the 'extras' such as DHTML and XML. This book does both. There are three chapters on how to add multimedia to your site with stuff like Shockwave and Flash. There are four chapters on DHTML stuff - layers, timelines, CSS. Another section which I didn't use but may be helpful to you out there is how to use Dreamweaver's web site management tools, like FTP and site map. No matter what kind of web publishing positioning you are in, if you want to know Dreamweaver, get this book.
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Summary: Shorten Your Learning Curve !
Review: I have read this book. This book will help you become a professional. It covers everything that you can imagine, after all Macromedia is great at delivering professional tools, but lacks comprehensive reference materials. If you purchased Dreamweaver, this Bible will take weeks off the learning curve. Finding what you need to get work your completed is made simple with the extensive cross-reference index. The CD was lacking as many different contributors addressed the same problems over and over, but for a beginner it's a great jumping off tool. This book reveals many secrets that will save you countless hours in understand why things work they way they do and provides many type along examples. But if your really clever go to the on line sites referenced and simply cut and paste. Soon you will have animated pages that play RMF (rich music formats by Beatnik) that load in less than 13 seconds and everyone will think you're a genius.
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Summary: A rare combination....
Review: Its extremely rare when a product with such power can be put to use so quickly. The Dreamweaver 2 Bible gives and excellent introduction to all of Dreamweavers features, from the easiest to the more complicated. It accomplishes this while remaining easy to read and understand. Anyone who has worked with other web site creation tools knows that such an accomplishment is rare.If your just getting started in web site creation or looking to get a better command of Dreamweavers more powerful abilities, feel confident that this book will get you going.
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Summary: Claims to be a BIBLE, but is missing the GENESIS book
Review: The numerous people who have written reviews in favor of the book are correct when it comes to the information and detail used throughout. My main complaint and concern with the book is that it claims to be for beginners and intermediates, but seems to be slacking in the beginners department. The author assumes that the reader is already familar with how to make a web page, and that's where the problem begins. I do not know how to begin making a web page, and being a student, I have to learn fast for classes. So, when the author began in areas that I am unfamiliar with, I was very confused. I decided to go ahead and keep the book for reference though. I did purchase the book Dreamweaver 2 H.O.T. (Hands On Traning), which I whould highly recommend to people who really have no idea how to start a web page. The BIBLE was not suited for me, but I am sure that I will use it when I become more familiar with the software.
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Summary: Claims to be a BIBLE, but is missing the GENESIS book
Review: The numerous people who have written reviews in favor of the book are correct when it comes to the information and detail used throughout. My main complaint and concern with the book is that it claims to be for beginners and intermediates, but seems to be slacking in the beginners department. The author assumes that the reader is already familar with how to make a web page, and that's where the problem begins. I do not know how to begin making a web page, and being a student, I have to learn fast for classes. So, when the author began in areas that I am unfamiliar with, I was very confused. I decided to go ahead and keep the book for reference though. I did purchase the book Dreamweaver 2 H.O.T. (Hands On Traning), which I whould highly recommend to people who really have no idea how to start a web page. The BIBLE was not suited for me, but I am sure that I will use it when I become more familiar with the software.
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Summary: Excellent but can be better
Review: This book can be better if it includes more tutorials and examples... I found this book to be generally useful. What makes this book a great help is when you are already clear of the networking essentials as well as the fundamentals of the web page desigining. This could includes what's a CSS, hotspots, rollover etc etc. I thought this book is essential because I start off with a mindset full of ideas for my webpage. This includes the rollovers, DHTML etc. The book covers about 70%-80% of the common features found on most webpages. Extensive introduction with a thousand pages, what more can you expect. If there are more introduced, the pages will have to go up to 2 thousands. That could put you off let alone buying it.
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Summary: Great book
Review: This book is very good,I like to read it.It give me much help
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Summary: Ok overall
Review: This book's ok overall. Though, the app itself is updated to a new version so often that I don't really think that buying the new version of the book every time is required. I'm using DW4.x now and I still refer to the 2.0 book for many of the features.
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