Amazon.co.uk Review
Dreamweaver in a Nutshell provides a concise, accurate handbook for Macromedia's market-leading Web authoring tool. The authors assume a basic knowledge of Web concepts, and focus sharply on creating and maintaining Web sites with Dreamweaver, rather than drifting into general topics such as attractive page design or how to make a site popular. Each chapter begins with a brief overview, and then offers reference information combined with comments and tips. Illustrations are taken from both Windows and Macintosh versions of Dreamweaver, and there are frequent notes on browser compatibility. The high-end Ultradev edition of Dreamweaver is not covered.
The book is in four main parts. The first covers core features such as the user interface, essential page objects, tables and forms, frames and layers and embedded controls. The next part is about managing Dreamweaver, including team authoring, version control, templates and libraries, and cascading style sheets. Part III looks at Dreamweaver behaviours, a great way to add intelligence and interactivity to Web pages. Subjects include JavaScript, image effects, layers and animation with timelines. The fourth part shows how to customise and extend Dreamweaver, showing how to modify and create menus or import third-party tag files. This is not only useful for reference, but also gives an insight into the inner workings of Dreamweaver. Finally, three appendices offer keyboard shortcuts, HTML character entities and a handy site-construction checklist.
Shorter than many Dreamweaver titles, this Nutshell title seems to convey just as much information. It makes an excellent resource for any Dreamweaver user. --Tim Anderson
Joyce Evans, The Designers Bookshelf, Aug 2002
I'd recommend this book for the intermediate to advanced user that wants to go beyond the intermediate level of using Dreamweavwer.
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