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Title: Dreamweaver 4: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland ISBN: 0-596-00097-9 Publisher: Pogue Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good, but not very deep
Comment: This is an excellent book if you have no experience with Dreamweaver. Takes you through everything step by step, and that is both a strength and a weakness. If you already know HTML and perhaps have worked with a package like FrontPage, alot of this book will be too basic and you will just skim. Then, when you want the real nitty gritty inside tips, you may have to go to a diffent source. This is a great manual, especially if you did a web purchase of Dreamweaver and didn't get a manual, but it doesn't go much beyond that.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great for the novice and the pro
Comment: Other reviewers seem to think this book is fabulous, too, but only for beginners. Yet within the first two chapters, I found two tips that will save me far more than the purchase price. As a designer of online training courses, I became a fan of Dreamweaver years ago, when Macromedia added Coursebuilder, which makes it easy to add tests to your website. So I was among the first to upgrade to version 4.0. While there is much to love in the upgrade, one frustration was the handy little button on the Object panel that inserted Break tags -- HTML coding that skips you to the next line without leaving a blank line in between. I remember wasting an hour under deadline looking for it, finally settling for the keyboard shortcut. But there in McFarland's book, not only do I find out where it is hidden, but I learn about other goodies I had never spotted before. Yes, indeed, I want more about SSI -- but that's why I hope McFarland write's a follow-up. And, yes, there are things like the DW FTP function that are awful -- but that's Macromedia's fault, not the author's. If all the other books in the Missing Manual series are as good as this, I will need to add a new bookshelf.
Rating: 5
Summary: THE BEST EVER
Comment: I have never been tempted to take the time to write one of these online reviews until I read this book. It's been so helpful to me in my work and has saved me so many hours of unnecessary labor that I thought I ought to tell people about it.
I've got lots of these kinds of books - from the dummy books to the huge bibles - but Dreamweaver:The Missing Manual is leagues better than any of them!
By the first few pages, I knew that this book would be fabulous, and it is. I like it because it is written for an intelligent reader, yet it uses non-techy language. Plus, there are lots of humorous references, which makes reading it fun.
Importantly, it doesn't assume technical knowledge on the part of the reader. It explains the whys along with the hows. This is of utmost value to me - I find the "whys" missing in many books. Often, a tutorial will say, "Do this. Then do this. Then do this." Well, any monkey can follow 1,2,3 instructions, but if you don't know WHY you're doing something, you won't be able to apply it to something else later on. I am constantly frustrated by that. I wanted more than a beginner's book, but I wanted the complex stuff explained in simple language. This book does that.
I started to bookmark the pages where I learned something valuable and realized I was marking the whole damned book - that's the type of book this is.
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Title: Dreamweaver 4: The Complete Reference by Jennifer Ackerman Kettell ISBN: 0072131713 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Dreamweaver 4 Magic by Al Sparber, Craig Foster, Murray Summers, Linda Rathgeber ISBN: 0735710465 Publisher: New Riders Publishing Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Dreamweaver 4 Hands-On Training by Garo Green, Lynda Weinman ISBN: 0201741334 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Dreamweaver 4 Virtual Classroom by Robert Fuller, Laurie Ann Ulrich ISBN: 007213108X Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 24 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Dreamweaver(R) 4 Fireworks(R) 4 Studio: A Beginner's Guide by Kim Cavanaugh ISBN: 0072192607 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 10 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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