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Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself)

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.786
EAN: 9780672329364
ISBN: 0672329360
Label: Sams
Manufacturer: Sams
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 600
Publication Date: 2007-06-03
Publisher: Sams
Studio: Sams
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Summary: Great for a Novice
Comment: Sam's Teach yourself Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 in 24 hours, is a comprehensive book that covers virtually everything you will need to know about the program. I initially chose this book because I had limited experience with Dreamweaver and wanted to be able to learn the fundamentals very quickly. One quick note about the titles of these books. Sam's Teach Yourself in 24 hours series is a bit misleading in the sense that it doesn't actually mean you could pick up the book one night and be an expert the next. O.K. well sort of...The Sam's Teach Yourself in 24 hours series of books are composed of 24, one-hour lessons that cumulatively help the user to learn a particular software program.

If you don't like learning theory or "why" something works then Sam's Teach Yourself Dreamweaver CS3 in 24 hours may not be the best kind of book for you. It is not the kind of book you can peruse on the weekend or take on a trip to help ramp up your skills. As an inexperienced Dreamweaver user, I found that I couldn't just go to the table of contents and select a section that sounded interesting. I felt like I had to start at the beginning and work my way through each chapter.

I am a Dreamweaver novice but an intermediate user of html, xhtml, and css so the beginning of this book was not as useful for me as say someone with no experience at all. This book would probably best suit someone without any web development experience at all. A small knowledge is certainly not detrimental but it forced me to skim the beginning and I felt myself wanted to "do" something.

This book doesn't have as many practice exercises as I would prefer. If you are someone who enjoys an included CD/DVD or at least a website with practice files then this book may not be the best for you. The book does suggest that you learn some fundamentals of web design/development by opening a pre-existing website. This task would certainly be helpful for the novice and is a good way to learn many CS3 features.

As someone who has used these type of training manual books before I felt that the greatest assets that this book had several strengths including: 1) Comprehensive and Detailed Explanations, 2) A good amount of screen shots, 3) Content Is Well Organized.

The weaknesses of this particular book include: 1) It is entirely black and white, 2) It is much too comprehensive for an intermediate user, 3) lacks an accompanying exercise files.

I would recommend this book to someone with absolutely NO web design, web development, or Dreamweaver experience. I would also recommend they begin on page 1 and work their way through incrementally as the book is intended. Give yourself 24 Days and do a one hour lesson a day. That would be a great way to get through each of the lessons and thoroughly learn Dreamweaver CS3.

Nate
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Summary: Extremely Easy to Follow
Comment: I have read quite a few Dreamweaver books and this one by far is the easiest to follow. It has broken down steps in a way that gets straight to the point of what you need to do to build a site.
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Summary: Just too elementary for me.
Comment: The back of this book, which arrived today, says "User Level: Beginning" and they are right. Wish Amazon's description of the book would have said that. I can see why the book's style would appeal to beginners, but with much Front Page experience, I needed at least an intermediate text. Less on the basics (like relative vs. absolute paths)and much more on style sheets, tables, etc. Also missing (not even in the Index) was any mention of "Contribute" a new Adobe tool designed to be used by non-programmers to maintain Dreamweaver-built websites.

So the book goes back and I will order something tougher.


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Summary: Very Helpful Book
Comment: I found this book to be very helpful and informative. I'm new to Dreamweaver CS-3 and I found that this book really covers the basics of Dreamweaver and Web design and gets into some of the more advanced features. After reading this book I've really gotten a grasp of Dreamweaver. I find that it is especially a good resource in conjunction with the online seminars from Adobe.
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Summary: Good book to learn the ins-and-outs
Comment: Excellent book to learn about all the new features of Dreamweaver CS3. I had the MX 2004 version but just upgraded. The changes are phenomenal. Excellent book in a great line of Sam's books.
  
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Sams Teach Yourself Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3 in 24 Hours

 

Betsy Bruce

 

24 Proven One-hour Lessons

 

In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you will be able to create a fully functional website using Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson offers background knowledge along with practical steps to follow, allowing you to learn the essentials of using Dreamweaver from the ground up.

 

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Dreamweaver tasks.

 

Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.

 

By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.

 

Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to do something.

 

Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems, and give you advice on how to avoid them.

 

Learn how to…

  • Use Dreamweaver CS3 to create simple or advanced web pages
  • Create forms to collect information from users at your site
  • Organize your site with templates and libraries
  • Make Cascading Style Sheets work for you
  • Craft an interactive website with DHTML
  • Display data efficiently with tables
  • Dress up your site with Flash files and other multimedia
  • Insert scripted functionality by using Behaviors
  • Insert content controls using the Spry framework JavaScript libraries
  • Customize and extend Dreamweaver
  • Upload your website to a server with Dreamweaver’s built-in FTP capability

 

Betsy Bruce is a consultant and owner of Performance Factor, creators of training and performance support applications using Dreamweaver and Flash. She is an Adobe-certified instructor for Dreamweaver, Flash, Captivate, and Authorware. As an authorized trainer, she has traveled the country instructing groups–ranging from corporations to school districts–on effectively creating dynamic and standards-based web content.

 

Register your book at www.samspublishing.com/register for convenient access to downloads, updates, and corrections as they become available.

 

Category:  Web Development

Covers:  Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3

User Level:  Beginning

 
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