- Paperback: 736 pages
- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (22 Aug 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201844451
- ISBN-13: 978-0201844450
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 17.8 x 4.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,886,959 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Even if you've never used Macromedia Dreamweaver before, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide will have you up and running with Macromedia's popular Web authoring program in no time. This completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to Macromedia Dreamweaver uses step-by-step, task-based instructions to explain all of the program's basic tools and how to use them to design a Web site. The book covers the program's existing features as well as its new ones, including its site setup wizard, context-sensitive toolbar, snippets, and enhanced coding tools. Whether you're using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX as a WYSIWYG page-layout tool and never want to write HTML, or if you're a hand coder who prefers using a sophisticated text editor, you'll find Macromedia Dreamweaver MX for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide indispensable.
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Even if you've never used Macromedia Dreamweaver before, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide will have you up and running with Macromedia's popular Web authoring program in no time. This completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to Macromedia Dreamweaver uses step-by-step, task-based instructions to explain all of the program's basic tools and how to use them to design a Web site. The book covers the program's existing features as well as its new ones, including its site setup wizard, context-sensitive toolbar, snippets, and enhanced coding tools. Whether you're using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX as a WYSIWYG page-layout tool and never want to write HTML, or if you're a hand coder who prefers using a sophisticated text editor, you'll find Macromedia Dreamweaver MX for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide indispensable.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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Although labelled a quickstart guide, this book is really better used as a reference guide. It's not really the step-by-step to creating sites that beginners to Dreamweaver might be seeking.
For those of us who know the basics this books is good for delving into to find hints and tips that we might not have otherwise realised Dreamweaver was capable of. If you need to know how a particular function works, or how to go about a particular task this book will show you.
No, it doesn't include advanced subjects, such as databases, timelines etc. The author mentions in the text that such subjects will be covered in the Visual QuickPro guide. The book is 700 pages long already, even without the coverage of these topics, which many users will never even need to use anyway.
Another reviewer scoffed that "Layer tags that even Netscape 6 no longer supported are still extolled." If that person had thought to read the actual chapter they would have seen that layers are in fact part of Cascading Style Sheets and Dynamic HTML (CSS-P) and as such the information on layers is bang up to date.
In my opinion this book is excellent, but as it doesn't hold your hand, as such, beginners may feel a little "blinded with science."
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Let's face it - Dreamweaver is complex, and intimidating to the beginner, with hundreds of panels and specific terminology to get to grips with it. Compared to Frontpage, it's got a much higher learning curve, but the end results are worth it.
This book is an excellent guide for the Dreamweaver newbie - it's comprensive enough to cover virtually all the functionality, and the style and two-column layout is extremely clear. It includes the basic stuff that would be appropriate for a raw beginner, but also builds up to more complex topics such as automating content creation and multiuser editing. It's detailed enough to act as a reference manual as well as a tutorial guide.
There are thicker guides around, as well as those aimed at lower levels of ability - but this guide covers both ends of the spectrum more than adequately and offers excellent value for money.
8 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
No stars. Peachpit Press have lost the plot with the Dreamweaver and Flash books. This book is 700 pages long and there are twenty odd appendices on the web site. This is not a quick start you would need months to plough throug this and you would only find out about templates in chapter 17. It is slow and ponderous discussing in minute detail all possible options of menus, dialogues, buttons etc. For instance Chapter 4 is titled 'Editing Code' and yet in 50 pages there is no instruction except in interface manipulation. If these criticisms weren't bad enough the book is woefully out of date being a quick upgrade of the interface details of the previous one. Is there any use of databases? No. Is there any mention or use of XHTML or adherance to current standards? No, errors and out of date useage abound. Layer tags that even Netscape 6 no longer supported are still extolled. There is only one oblique reference to the World Wide Web Consortium in a mention of Tim Berners-Lee.
Do not buy this book. The only thing good about this book is that it is cheap
Do not buy this book. The only thing good about this book is that it is cheap
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