Product Description

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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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #350695 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-03
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 600 pages

About the Author
Betsy Bruce is a developer and consultant who specializes in creating eLearning applications
using Dreamweaver, Authorware, Captivate, and Flash. She was lead developer at the
Cobalt Group in Seattle, where her team won the 2003 Macromedia Innovation in eLearning
award and was Manager of Technical Services at MediaPro, Inc., where her team won many
awards for the projects it developed. She is an Adobe-certified trainer for Dreamweaver,
Contribute, Flash, Captivate, and Authorware. Betsy received her B.S. degree from the
University of Iowa and her M.A. degree in educational technology from San Diego State
University. She is frequently a speaker at conferences on creating eLearning and using
Dreamweaver. She is also the author of eLearning with Dreamweaver MX: Creating Online
Learning Applications from New Riders Publishing. Born and raised in Iowa, Betsy lives
in Seattle with her partner and two Siberian huskies. Her website is located at
www.betsybruce.com.

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Customer Reviews

Great Book. Starts with the basics so no one will be left out
I am a more advanced computer user with a bit of Dreamweaver experience (OK, so it was many years ago). I wanted to get back into it, but dreaded the thought of mucking about lamely until I got the hang of it again. This book starts with the basics, and even though I am generally familiar with a lot of the concepts, the author always mentions more than one way to do things, so even "know-it-alls" like me find themselves learning a lot. I have finished the first 12 chapters and feel good about my knowledge of the programs basic features. It progressively gets more advanced in easily digestible chunks, so I'm looking forward to finishing the last 12 chapters. The only people I wouldn't recommend this book to are those who were advanced users of the previous versions. It's meant to introduce someone to the program in general, not deeply discuss the new features only.

Great for a Novice
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

Handy resource for the faint hearted.
I chose this book among many because I thought it could help me learn Dreamweaver quickly. I had no experience whatsoever in web design but wanted to create and manage my own site for the purpose of selling a product. It does cover the basics and leads you fairly well through some processes. However I did get stuck a few times and I found I still had to turn to the web for help. In fact, I re-started my whole site using other advice from the web. About half way through I stopped using the book because it was teaching things that just weren't relevant to the basic user. Overall I felt the book was too basic in parts and unnecessarily detailed in others. However I am pleased to have it as a reference and I expect I'll open it for advice some time in the future.