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Summary: One of the best manuals I've ever read
Review: After completing this manual, the reader will have learned all the basic ingredients required to produce attractive web pages. The task of creating and using frames is presented as simply as the task of creating various types of links between pages. In little time, the reader can be experimenting with numerous possibilities in the world of web page creation. Kevin Siegel is an author who knows how to teach!
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Summary: Very Good Beginner Tutorial
Review: I have now read both Siegel's "Essentials of Dreamweaver" and Wyman's "Dreamweaver HOT" cover-to-cover. My grade for each: A+++++. But it is not possible to compare the two books as I've seen several reviewers do here. They strive to achieve different results. The Wyan book is more detailed and has more advanced information. Which is GREAT! It showed some Dreamweaver features I never knew existed. The lessons are not, however, all step-by-step. Siegel's book is a beginner, step-by-step tutorial that mirrors what you'd expect if you took a beginner Dreamweaver course at a training company or community college. With one exception: I took a month-long course at a local community college and didn't learn nearly as much as I did in the "Essentials of Dreamweaver" book (which I completed on my own in a few days). If you want to master Dreamweaver, buy this book, Wyman's and the DW Bible. Getting that many books is certainly is a big investment; but you'll have vast resources as you master this wonderful authoring tool.
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Summary: Very Good Beginner Tutorial
Review: I have now read both Siegel's "Essentials of Dreamweaver" and Wyman's "Dreamweaver HOT" cover-to-cover. My grade for each: A+++++. But it is not possible to compare the two books as I've seen several reviewers do here. They strive to achieve different results. The Wyan book is more detailed and has more advanced information. Which is GREAT! It showed some Dreamweaver features I never knew existed. The lessons are not, however, all step-by-step. Siegel's book is a beginner, step-by-step tutorial that mirrors what you'd expect if you took a beginner Dreamweaver course at a training company or community college. With one exception: I took a month-long course at a local community college and didn't learn nearly as much as I did in the "Essentials of Dreamweaver" book (which I completed on my own in a few days). If you want to master Dreamweaver, buy this book, Wyman's and the DW Bible. Getting that many books is certainly is a big investment; but you'll have vast resources as you master this wonderful authoring tool.
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Summary: Basic skills book - no advanced information
Review: If you're interested in learning anything other than the basics of Dreamweaver 3, then this is definately not the book. Granted it has very straightforward information, but goes very little beyond the basics of Dreamweaver 3. To learn the more advanced concepts and a more thorough presentation of Dreamweaver I would take a look at the Dreamweaver H.O.T. book by Lynda Weinman. I used both books when learning DW3 and the H.O.T. book was by far superior both in presentation and content.
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Summary: Best one so far
Review: If your reason for buying a Dreamweaver book is to learn quickly, I'd recommend this one highly. It's a superbly paced, step by step tutorial that actually taught me what I needed to know about DW3 in a few hours! I was very happy to see that the data files are available for download online. This was essential to me because I lost the data disk before I even had a chance to start the lessons. :( Well done iconlogic!
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Summary: Wow!
Review: Pardon me while I get my wind back! I just got my socks knocked off by this book. Great lessons. This is the the perfect tutorial for learning an even greater program. Thanks Macromedia and thanks ikonlogic. A great partnership. What was the best part about the book? The exercise on frames! It made sense. I've wanted to set up a similar scenario for some time and now I can. The ping pong tourney was also a blast. I'd love to know who won! The information on FTP was also very helpful.
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Summary: Excellent Resource
Review: This was an excellent resource for learning the basics of Dream Weaver. Its a great book for those of us who are not experts at Web Page Design, but eventually want to be! This is well written, easy to follow and lots of helpfull tips. You don't have to be a technoid to use this book. I have used other books by this author and my company has benefitted from all of them. I highly recommend this book. I especially appreciated the last module in the book regarding setting up an ISP. I was able to follow the authors demonstration and set up my own ISP account.
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Summary: A different approach that might not appeal to all...
Review: This was the 2nd book on Dreamweaver I read.... This book is spiral bound, making it easy to lay flat on your desk or table while you work on the tutorials. It's easy to follow, with clear directions that take you through each exercise. However, it's very lightweight when it comes to explaining why you're doing what you're doing. The tutorials are more like, "Do this, now do that, now you're done." Although I successfully completed them all, I was left feeling a bit like I was just being carried through the exercises, instead of being encouraged to think about what I was doing and why I was doing it. Definitely geared towards the first-time user -- if you've read another book or two on Dreamweaver and have developed at least one site with it (even a basic site) then you probably won't benefit too much from this book. The book has a bit of a feel like those classroom workbooks you got in school or if you've ever taken a corporate software training class. That's not necessarily a criticism -- just a comment and observation. I would say if you're a beginner with absolutely no experience with Dreamweaver, this will get you at least working in Dreamweaver on the tutorials. But don't let it give you a false sense of security -- you'll need to segue right into another book to build upon anything you pick up from this book. On the plus side, it includes a CD-ROM with the exercises, so all the files you need to use are provided for you...
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Summary: A different approach that might not appeal to all...
Review: This was the 2nd book on Dreamweaver I read.... This book is spiral bound, making it easy to lay flat on your desk or table while you work on the tutorials. It's easy to follow, with clear directions that take you through each exercise. However, it's very lightweight when it comes to explaining why you're doing what you're doing. The tutorials are more like, "Do this, now do that, now you're done." Although I successfully completed them all, I was left feeling a bit like I was just being carried through the exercises, instead of being encouraged to think about what I was doing and why I was doing it. Definitely geared towards the first-time user -- if you've read another book or two on Dreamweaver and have developed at least one site with it (even a basic site) then you probably won't benefit too much from this book. The book has a bit of a feel like those classroom workbooks you got in school or if you've ever taken a corporate software training class. That's not necessarily a criticism -- just a comment and observation. I would say if you're a beginner with absolutely no experience with Dreamweaver, this will get you at least working in Dreamweaver on the tutorials. But don't let it give you a false sense of security -- you'll need to segue right into another book to build upon anything you pick up from this book. On the plus side, it includes a CD-ROM with the exercises, so all the files you need to use are provided for you...
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