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Summary: packed with examples
Review: I found many helpful examples throughout the book. but I did not read it from cover to cover. I prefer to experiment and see where it takes me. this book has some simple but useful stuff.
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Summary: Not helpful and very hard to follow
Review: I was getting this book because I didn't find the Macromedia manual very helpful. I wish I would have stuck with the manual. This book was much worse. I found it very hard to follow the lessons in the book. It seemed when something started making sense they just stopped and went on to the next lesson. Even the material on the cd-rom seemed disorganized. I also found the artwork on the cd for the examples very poor.
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Summary: visually helpful examples
Review: I was looking for a book that has some hands-on examples of the newer features in Fireworks 4. This book is broken up into four parts. I found the second half of the book particularly helpful with helpful coverage of the JavaScript based web elements that can be put together in fireworks. The sample files included with the book are another bonus.
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Summary: mac users will like this
Review: My friends are learning how to build web pages, and we're all huge Mac fans. It's great to find a book with so many shots of Mac screens. Yeah, there could be color (everythings blue). It's definitely not a learn how to draw book. I can see why a windows person might not like this book. Its great for bringing newbies to Mac web software.
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Summary: great for beginners!
Review: The reviewer from Boston is right. This book is little more than a re-write of the manual, and is a waste of money.Worse, it isn't even a good re-write. The book suffers from a problem that too many software books have: it assumes that the reader has never seen a modern piece of software. Does anyone *really* need instruction on "Navigating the Menu Bar"? (pp. 29 - 42) If you need to be told how to open and close files with the file menu, you're already way out of your league and need to get a basic Windows/MacOS book. The first 100 pages of the book are so much wasted paper. Unfortunately, the subsequent 500 pages aren't much better. Instructions are poorly designed and disjointed -- and there are errors throughout the book. I lost count of how many times I had to re-read sections thinking I'd missed something because what was on my screen didn't match what Lee described, only to discover that I hadn't missed anything -- Lee had.
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