Product Description

Do you like to learn by doing? Do manuals leave you bored and craving real-world examples? Do you want concrete training that goes beyond theory and reference materials? If so, this book is for you.

These hands-on exercises, complete with insider tips and detailed illustrations, teach you the latest techniques for designing Web sites with Dreamweaver 8. You’ll learn to define a Web site; layout pages effectively with Cascading Style sheets; use tables; create rollovers; work with templates, media objects, and forms; and design for mobile devices. You’ll also learn how to use the new features in Dreamweaver 8, including the new Unified CSS Panel, the Style Rendering Toolbar, the Code Toolbar, guides, CSS Layout visualization, Zoom, and Code Collapse. Accompanied by a CD-ROM loaded with classroom-proven exercises and QuickTime training videos, this book ensures you'll master the key features of Dreamweaver 8 in no time.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30045 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-11
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 528 pages

About the Author
Garo Green is the vice president of operations for Lynda.com. He has worked extensively in the development of custom curriculum and courseware for software training, and has taught in both hardware and software applications. Daniel Short has been doing the web gig since the end of 1998 and co-owns a very successful web development company, Site-Drive, Inc (www.site-drive.com). He the Lead Developer for Cartweaver (www.cartweaver.com), driving the development of future versions of the product. Daniel is a coauthor of Dreamweaver MX 2004 Magic, a contributing author to Dreamweaver MX Magic, the Dreamweaver MX Bible and the Dreamweaver MX 2004 Bible.

Customer Reviews

Great book for learning Dreamweaver
I bought this book to teach myself Dreamweaver and it did a pretty good job. It comes with a CD that has projects to work on as well as video tutorials to supplement the book. The author is pretty thorough in his explanations. The beginning two chapters may seem boring at first but in the end you realize they are quite informative and the information is necessary as a background before any real work can be executed correctly. This book covers everything from opening Dreamweaver for the first time to publishing your web page. Another great book for getting started is Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Revealed... I felt I should have read that one before this one because that one is a little more basic for when you are teaching yourself.

DreamWeaver 8 - great program
Dreamweaver 8 is a good product and fun to play with and learn.
Tons of tutorials online and in books.

Errors, Confusion, and BAD GLUE
Purchased for a college web design course, the first thing I noticed about this book is how poorly bound it is. As the previous reviewer also found, large sections of the book came loose within days, and I am very careful with books. The binding glue has completely failed, making the book difficult to use, and for a $53 (retail) textbook, that's a disgrace.

The content is okay, but I found a number of errors, actual mistakes in the exercises, which you do after copying the files on the enclosed CD to your machine. Some procedures were not in sequence, some DW functions no longer exist or are not where the authors say they are, background colors come out wrong despite following the instructions, etc. Expect to find anywhere from 1-4 errors per chapter, depending on how carefully you follow the exercises. The book uses a hypothetical website about "TeaCloud Teas" in every chapter, and it gets a bit tedious after a while. It could also use some independent exercises that do not revolve around the tea vendor website.

That said, you CAN learn a lot from this book, but you may have moments of frustration followed by anger at being slightly misled. There are better Dreamweaver learning tools out there. And probably some better glue...