Customer Reviews

Dreamweaver 4 for Dummies

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As an aspiring web designer I picked up 3 books on the subject of learning Dreamweaver 4. Ms. Warner in 'DUMMIES' leads you through the program without losing you, and at a comfortable pace: the information never gets too dense. The other books either used undefined terms or combined intro and advanced materials together. I recommend this book as the only beginning source necessary (it's the only one I'm using).

I'm a technical writer and website builder who asked the webmaster of a national PC manufacturer's site what was the very best book to buy to learn MacroMedia's Dreamweaver -- and he said without missing a beat, "Believe it or not, get DREAMWEAVER FOR DUMMIES! You can go to college with web engineers learning this stuff and you'll see them carrying this book around." Need I say more?

I was a beginning Dreamweaver user who had a little bit of experience using HTML. This turned out to be a great book for me and I'd recommend it to anyone except maybe an advanced Dreamweaver user (I guess that's why it's for Dummies...)

Like most Dummies books Dreamweaver 4 For Dummies is an overview for Dreamweaver. For any basic information this book is great. But it is only ok when it comes to advanced stuff like CSS. This book only has around 15 chapters, which is much different from the 25-35 chapters other dummies books have. Having big chapters can make it hard to find the info you are looking for. I would recommend this book for anyone who is new to a WYSIWYG program. But for people coming from another editor you might want to look for a more advanced book.

I took Dreamweaver 4 in a course back in 2002 - This book as with my course book are very basic - it did help with getting back in the groove of building a site but I think the people that write these books don't write for Dummies at all - they don't complete there thoughts and leave out major steps that you have to figure out for yourself... I'd give a C+ at best

I like Dummies books because they lack a tutorial - this book gets right to the point. I prefer to dive right into my project and work it out as I go. I am familiar with other web editors, but new to Dreamweaver and this book has given me the overview that I wanted without having to suffer through a tutorial I didn't really want to work on or mounds and mounds of detail that I don't even need (or that I can find on the web somewhere else.) My web site is relatively simple, though large, so the Dummies book fit the bill.

This book is extremely easy to use, but you should have somewhat of a background on the subject.