- Paperback: 560 pages
- Publisher: Macromedia Press; 1 edition (23 July 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201799294
- ISBN-13: 978-0201799293
- Product Dimensions: 25.1 x 20.3 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,371,854 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Macromedia Dreamweaver MX: Training from the Source leads you through a series of 17 project-based lessons in which you learn how to create and maintain Web sites using Macromedia's popular Web design software. The book's step-by-step exercises use the "Lights of the Coast" project Web site to introduce you to Dreamweaver's powerful tools and the best ways to use them. By recreating the sample Web site through the lessons, you'll gather the skills you need to develop sites, working in both visual and code editing environments, that are accessible to a wide audience. The lessons in this easy-to-follow guide provide 18-20 hours of tutorials, which start with the basics of creating a Web page and progressively add in more complex tasks such as working with text, graphics, and tables. You don't need any prior Dreamweaver experience to grasp these easy-to-follow lessons, which, while based on a sample project, provide you with all of the techniques and confidence to build your own full-featured Web sites.
About the Author
Khristine Page works as the Senior Web Designer at Ideum, a company devoted to producing Web sites for museums, non-profits, and socially responsible companies. She is the Editor-In-Chief and Publisher of Crescent Magazine, and a Designer for NorthWind Studios. She also teaches at San Francisco State University's Multimedia Studies program. Previously, she worked as Multimedia Specialist at the San Francisco Exploratorium, a museum of science, art and human perception.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an excellent book for the newcomer to Dreamweaver, and comes with a 30-day evaluation copy of Dreamweaver MX for Windows or Macintosh. The 17 lessons, each taking an hour (or sometimes two), are well thought out and easy to follow. The step-by-step guidance is complete (you're never left wondering what to do next or why it isn't working), without being patronizing. Unlike many books, the word-count isn't inflated by repeating details (and screen-shots!) ad nauseam - here you're told how to do something once or maybe twice, and then it's assumed you to know how to do it; though there are references back to the details if needed. Unusually for this sort of book, I didn't come across any errors, and all of the exercises actually work! At the end of each lesson there's an "on your own" exercise, where you can deconstruct, analyze and re-create commercially produced web pages, to illustrate and consolidate what you've just learnt in the lesson.
The book does not claim to be comprehensive in its coverage of the functionality of Dreamweaver MX. What the book's Introduction actually says is: "Because it is geared toward beginner and intermediate users who may have little or no previous experience with Dreamweaver, coverage of advanced application building and dynamic web site creation with the use of databases ... is outside the scope of this book", and it goes on to explain why they are not included. As a beginner myself, by the end of the course I felt I had a good understanding of the basic capabilities of the Dreamweaver package, though clearly there is more to it. The emphasis is usually on the Design view, rather than the HTML behind it, but one can always switch to Code view to see what HTML has been generated.
I really enjoyed working through this book - something I can rarely say about computer manuals. The author writes well, obviously knows the application inside out, has taken the trouble to consider the needs of beginners, and has produced a very effective learning package.
17 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Oveerall this was a nice and clear book but as it had NOTHING about databases (covered in the introduction but not on Amazon's description) it was of little use to me. The tutorials provided with Dreamweaver cover most of this stuff.
Well written and clear but only covers a small portion of Dreamweaver MX's abilities.
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34 of 37 people found the following review helpful
A Solid Foundation For Beginers!
12 Aug 2002
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The lessons are comprehensive. If you are not a beginner I don't think this book would be very helpful to you, as it includes no flashy stuff - just the basics. The book has a few minor mistakes - I'll gladly take the mistakes than wait another 2 months for most of the other DW MX books to be out. The included CD has everyhting you need to complete the lessons problem free.
It has taught me how to navigate through Dreamweaver with confidence. I know where mostly everything is, what it does, & how to use it. However, I am still having difficulty outside the perfect world of the pre-designed sites the book uses. That being said, this training method has proven itself to me & I have ordered Training from the Source Flash & Fireworks as well.
Since a lot of the content info on this book is still not widely available - I've jotted it down below:
Lesson 1 Dreamweavr MX Basics
Lesson 2 Working with Graphics
Lesson 3 Creating Links
Lesson 4 Elements of Page Design (Tables)
Lesson 5 Adding User Interactivity
Lesson 6 Managing Your Site
Lesson 7 Accessibility & Testing
Lesson 8 Using Libraries
Lesson 9 Using Templates
Lesson 10 Creating Frames
Lesson 11 Creating Forms
Lesson 12 Editing the Code
Lesson 13 Using Style Sheets
Lesson 14 Using Find & Replace
Lesson 15 Creating Layers
Lesson 16 Animating with Timelines
Lesson 17 Extending Dreamweaver
Appendix A Regular Expressions
Appendix B Macintosh Shortcuts
Appendix C Windows Shortcuts
Index
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
An excellent starting point
9 Sep 2002
Format:Paperback
I purchased this book to assist my staff come to terms with Dreamweaver. I think it's an excellent beginning, and even picked up some helpful infomation for myself too.
I would highly recommend this book and would have given it 5 stars if it had a chapter on how to integrate with Fireworks.
This book is well written and and has lots of diagrams too.
Unlike other books I've had over the years, Dreamweaver MX Training from the Source allows you to engage at the point where you want to engage and do the lesson(s) you need. Other books mistakenly presume you've joined them at Lesson One.
Another feature that I like is that in each chapter there are sections of explanation, instruction, notes and tips. This means if for example you are "brushing up" on a particular topic, you don't have to read the whole chapter to get a sense of what is being said, the explanation section may be enough.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
The Perfect Starting Place
25 Sep 2002
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Like many of us, I have dozens of this type of book for all sorts of software applications and development tools. My prior HTML experience is light, and I have used FrontPage, but I would still classify myself as an HTML novice. With that said, I believe that this is the perfect book for beginners and novices of Dreamweaver MX.
After installing Studio MX for the 1st time, the first thing I did was crack open this book and get started. I am now in the middle of Lesson 9 (Templates), and have developed a solid understanding of the concepts covered to this point. Not only have I been completely satisfied with the book, but the MX version of Dreamweaver has been flawless so far - incredibly solid and intuitive. The examples do not bog you down with typing/developing too much - but they illustrate the concepts quickly and succinctly.
I am anxiously making my way through this book in order to start my small company's website! The book and software are highly recommended.
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