Customer Reviews

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Bible

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The Bible is just that, a thorough understanding including hands-on tutorials using DW CS5 and understanding all of its capabilities in website development - static and dynamic sites (which are extensive). I was disappointed that the downloadable exercise files for the chapters on dynamic sites were .asp and not .php. Reduced the value of that part of the book for me, but perhaps the author and publisher plan to fix that. I also think the size of the book is so unnecessarily unwieldy. Still, between this book and the CS5 missing manual, I can't imagine more comprehensive and user-friendly treatments getting you up and running exploiting the many useful features of the latest DW for developing websites.

This is a "got to have" reference for the serious Dreamweaver user. If you are looking for a step by step learning guide, this isn't it. Get a "training" book along with this one. Adobe's "Classroom in a book" series is good.

Very well written computer manual with many examples and easy to understand explanations. Including a disk would have been a nice touch.

I have long been a fan of Lowrey's book and this is deserving of the 4 starts, but there was a "friends of ed" book "Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4" that seemed to bring Dreamweaver CS4's new features in a way that moved me forward more quickly and was organized so I found what I needed more easily. To be clear, this sort of difference is one of individual needs of the reader and how that matches to the style of the author.

Again, I am a long time fan of Lowrey's books. As the CS4 book I liked does not have a CS5 version this book is the "top dog" in my opinion on CS5 Dreamweaver coverage.

I've worked extensively with earlier versions of Dreamweaver. Since acquiring CS5 I have discovered that some things are rather different.

The Dreamweaver CS5 Bible has helped me learn those differences quickly and relatively painlessly.

I highly recommend it.