Creating a Web Site in Dreamweaver CS3: Visual QuickProject Guide (Paperback)

by Nolan Hester (Author)
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Product Description
Dreamweaver has been the tool of choice for professional Web site designers for years. And now that it is part of the Adobe Creative Suite, even more users, including beginning Web designers, will find it in their hands. This book is for them--all of the people who are itching to design their very first Web site but don't want to learn every last Dreamweaver feature to do so. This full-color volume guide offers them the quickest route to creating a well-designed, friendly Web site! Each short chapter uses big, bold screen shots and step-by-step instructions to illuminate one aspect of this process. By the end of the volume, users will create a simple Web site, fill it with text, graphics and tables, use style sheets, create image maps, add navigation and links, and test and publish the final product. Timely tips and occasional sidebars detailing good design practices round out the book. 

About the Author
Nolan Hester has written more than a dozen books for Peachpit Press, including the best-selling previous editions of this book. Along with Retouching Photos in Photoshop Elements: Visual QuickProject Guide, he's written Visual QuickStart Guides on Microsoft Expression Web, Adobe Photoshop Album, and Microsoft FrontPage.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (July 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 032150304X
• ISBN-13: 978-0321503046
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #280,386 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quick Way to Get your Own Website up and running, July 31, 2007

By	Paris Granville "ParisG" (Issaquah, WA) - See all my reviews

I was happy to see that this visual book only had 130 pages. I just need to get my website up and running. I don't need to know all the details about Dreamweaver. This book did for me in a day. I didn't download their website examples, but worked directly on my own site. This does require you to extrapolate a bit, but that's how you will learn to do it your self. This book is organized around what the user wants to do. It doesn't step you through all the menus like most books. That great, because that's the way it works in real life.

25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Cannot recommend - fatal flaw - downloadable web companion example files do not match book, July 20, 2007

By	Laura (California, north central coast, USA) - See all my reviews

This book is geared for people new to Dreamweaver CS3 and CSS. It is a very attractive book. I wanted to love this book - it's cute - gorgeous - colorful - pleasantly laid out - big screenshots - heavy typefaces. It really-and-truly is a book for dummies like me. However, the book has one fatal flaw, big enough such that I cannot recommend the book. The flaw is that the downloadable Internet companion "example" files at waywest dot net/dwvqj do *NOT* match the book in multiple places. In my opinion, the web companion examples files are crucial to the success of the book. I emailed the author Nolan Hester a few days ago but haven't heard back. With the companion files UNmatching, it makes no sense investing in the book. By "insert flash video" on page 29, I could no longer follow along because the differences were so great. I then rifled through the rest of the book and found additional major places where the web examples files do not match the book.

If the publisher and/or author would make the necessary changes to the web companion example files so they match the book, this *COULD* be a superb idiot's "first" book. I advise NOT purchasing this book UNTIL the author and/or publisher explicitly posts a note in plain view stating that the web companion example files REALLY DO ACTUALLY match the book!

I wasted my money. After posting this review, I am shelving the book and moving on to other books on DW CS3, XHTML, CSS, etc.

I've been a fan of the publisher Peachpit Press peachpit dot com for decades. They evidently are not paying attention to detail regarding this book.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars VERY GOOD starter resource, October 20, 2007

By	Adam (Monrovia, California) - See all my reviews

I almost gave this 5 stars, but because it's just a small book that's intended as a a 'starter' then 5 seemed too much. Anyway, I think this book is very good at getting you up and around in Dreamweaver CS3. This book is a GREAT start for a beginner (experienced web programmers should skip it.) I'm no expert by any stretch, just an average user who needs to create a website for my small side business.

The book takes you through making a sample website, with easy examples of elements you might want to use in your own site. I think it does a great job of 'learning by doing' but doesn't take you too deep where you'll get lost. Once you go through this book, you'll be able to start work on your own site, doing your own thing - at that point you will probably want a more robust reference book for more advanced stuff.

I've not run across any 'errors', but there could be some, the book's not perfect. However the support site does have a page of corrections and updates, I didn't see any for this edition but there were a few corrections for prior editions.

Final thought- if you want some 'training wheels' to get started and practice building something, this a great choice, and a fair price for what it is.