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Summary: Dreamweaver is not easy
Comment: As a long time designer, teacher and user of Adobe software such as Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Lightroom et al. and having some experience with html coding, I thought Dreamweaver 8 would be fairly intuitive and quick to grasp. I was quite wrong! So I bought two books--Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 in 24 hours and Dreamweaver 8 The Missing Manual. First, as you may be well aware, Dreamweaver was purchased from Macromedia and incorporated into the Adobe software line fairly recently. Adobe has incorporated some of the desktop look and feel of their other products into Dreamweaver 8 but the program is not that intuitive for a new user. The book, that is the subject of this review, helps some but is dense reading. It is set up as a series of one hour lessons and this format makes it hard to skip around and find out how to handle a specific problem you may wish to address. The Missing Manual book is somewhat more thorough (and almost 400 pages longer) in covering the intricacies of Dreamweaver but is no less dense. If you are looking for a "How do I design a web page?" book, you may find these books overly technical and without many easy to understand screen shots. The screen shots in Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 in 24 hours are all B&W (same in The Missing Manual) and the details are small. Both are books better suited for fairly advanced users.
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Summary: Good product
Comment: I am a novice at Websites but this book gave me the ability to work through and get a site done. I felt it was very straight forward and easy to read.
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Summary: The Author Should had come with book
Comment: This was an easy book to pick up and read plus also pick up and understand. I basically tought myself Dreamweaver. The program without the book I would be impossible to learn. I just wished an instructor came with the book because I am a person who learns easier when visually instructed. Other that that excellent product
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Summary: A great start !
Comment: Of important note: The back of the book states that its a BEGINNER level book. This means that if you're an experienced web designer looking for DREAMWEAVER'S missing manual to guide you through its more advanced features, the book will be a disappointement. On the other hand, if you're new to DREAMWEAVER, CSS as well as the quirks of how to lay out a web page using the program on a very basic level, the book is definitely a painless and user friendly read. Betsy Bruce's writing style is very nice... flows nicely, easy to follow and will head you off in the write direction. Then, after that you can deal with the NO printed manual problem (grrrrrrrrrr...)
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Summary: Another Good Sams
Comment: Sams again turns out a great home manual for working with a complex product.
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