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Summary: Disappointing
Comment: This book should be taken out of print if it hasn't already, it has some useful points but is sooo outdated that it might as well be used as a door stop because the information is much too old and based on much older versions of the software which has evolved beyond the book.
Either update the book, which may have been relevant when first published, or do buyers a favor and upload the stock to the second hand books market.
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Summary: Too Confusing To Follow
Comment: The author definitely knows his stuff but does a horrible job relaying it to the reader. He often has you follow steps for creating part of your website and abruptly ends with no final results and suddenly starts a new topic.
This book has some good elements for a reference book, but if you're new to web design and looking for a set-by-step book to build a site in Photoshop and Dreamweaver - this is not the book you want.
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Summary: This book can give a good solid base to web design beginners!
Comment: I came across this book after having built three full functioning websites by self-teaching and muddling through the technical difficulties of Dreamweaver. I was already good at Photoshop, by the way, and a graphic designer.
However the more sites I've built, the less confident I was. I felt like I was standing on a non-solid and very shaky ground of technical knowledge in web design. There were things I knew very well, and simple things that I didn't know at all.
So I came across this book "Photoshop and Dreaweaver Integration". Sounded good, so I decided to give it a shot. At the time, this book was already two years old. And I had known before starting that it would only cover the laying-out-by-tables method. There was nothing about layout-by-CSS method, which is growing very strong in these days.
I've had gone through the book page by page carefully. I didn't follow the suggestions of the author trying to design your own website while following the technical guides of the book. Instead I tried to do exactly what the author did in the book. The reason for this is that I just wanted to learn the technical skills. I wanted to know exactly how to do what the author did. I didn't want the design and aesthetic problems get into my way before I got a solid technical skill base. And I was a designer, I wouldn't have to worry that I couldn't create.
So the result of going through the book page by page, twice, is that now I feel very confident as a beginner. The book covers everything that a beginner needs to know: from planning, drafting, make a comprehensive sketch in Photoshop, to transfer it to ImageReady, add button and rollovers, and then transfer again to Dreaweaver, where you can build your template page, build the whole site, add E-commerce and interactive functions, and finding a hosting service.
Many of these things I had already known about, but I still went through them with the book anyway, because then I could see the whole process.
Of course there's a lot ahead for me to learn, like laying out with CSS, but I'm not anxious anymore about the shaky ground that I once stood on.
I hope the author will update the book with new knowledge. But for now it is still a good book for starters.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fantastic Book
Comment: I have very little knowledge on web design, the last page I built was with FrontPage 2000 and it was as basic and boring as possible. After going through this book I have made drastic improvements to the quality of my site and my comfort level with Dreamweaver has increased immensely!
If you are new to web design and want to learn how to create a web site from a basic picture all the way to getting the site uploaded to your host, this is the book for you.
Customer Rating:
Summary: This is the one for me...
Comment: This book is perfect for those of us just starting out in web page creation. The book walks you through all the steps used in Photoshop, and then continues with the Dreamweaver portion. I had actually purchased several other books on the topic, but quickly dropped them for this one due to its step-by-step explanations.
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