Customer Rating:  
Summary: 2 Star Book Gets 3rd Star for Brevity
Comment: What do you do when you're a slow reader who has to learn as much about Dreamweaver as possible within the next couple of days? You don't go and buy a 600 page book, no matter how many stars it's got. So, browsing through the shelves at Borders, I hesitantly picked up only the two sub-200pp. DW CS3 books on offer and chose the "in easy steps" option because, well, the other option (name escapes me) had an entire chapter on creating image maps. Blech!
Pro:
==> At page 68, I'm essentially already 1/3rd done...wahoo!
==> Based on a count of the dog-eared pages so far, I've read about 8 things that I consider worth learning.
==> < $20 USD (and under $20 Canadian, too!)
Con:
==> Too much real estate devoted to "Don't Forget," "Hot Tip," and, "Beware" sidebars.
==> Said sidebars are either useful (5%), Mostly Harmless (75%), and Patronizing (15%), or Incorrect (5%)*.
==> As of page 68, I still don't know how to make design changes in the mess of nested tables left to me by my CSS-phobic predecessor.
Bottom Line: Unless you're desperate, spend some extra money and time on Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual or Dreamweaver CS3 Bible.
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*Examples: "[An image] reference is denoted by the tag." "...does not have a closing tag."
OK, so I'm nit-picking with the second example. My personal bias is that it's bad form not to encourage XHTML habits. Point being, I've been trying to forget nearly as much of what I read here as what I'm trying to remember.
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