Customer Reviews

Design and Deploy Websites with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Contribute 3: Training from the Source

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Unlike other very well put together Macromedia books, this one's a dud. The lesson's don't stack up, the instructions are incorrect and basically if you follow the instructions, by lesson 3 (of 14) you'll hit a brick wall which basically kills the remainder of the lessons. Still waiting on a return email from the author to clear this up.

I agree with the two previous reviewers. Book is rife with incorrect instructions, lesson files are not correct either. Don't waste your time or money on this book. Got through chapter 3 and gave up. E-mailed the publisher and Macromedia about the poor quality of this book.

Agree completely with first reviewer. Useless until new files are available.

I was starting to wonder if I just had a mental block with Dreamweaver and Contribute. I've been working on the Web since 1994, but always edit source code (mostly PHP/XHTML/CSS). I wanted to investigate this as a management combination for a large Web site, but couldn't get past the first four pages of chapter three. Lo and behold, everyone else is having the same problem, so I don't feel so stupid. This book is impenetrable.

I agree with previous reviewers that this book is not perfect, but I don't think it is that bad and as far as its goal of helping users learn Contribute and integrate with Dreamweaver, this book meets its goal. I found it very helpful and would strongly recommend it for organizations using the Macromedia platform.

I write and design instructor-led course books for Macromedia. As I was writing my course I found Joe's book an invaluable resource for self-paced tutorial work. The hands-on exercises enable you to perform work in a cumulative style that helps you get a real-world sense of development and maintenance using Contribute 3.