Dreamweaver CS4 Digital Classroom (Paperback)

by Jeremy Osborn (Author), Aquent Creative Team (Author)
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Product Description
Dreamweaver CS4 Digital Classroom is like having a personal instructor guiding readers through each lesson, while they work at their own pace. This book includes 13 self-paced lessons that let readers discover essential skills and explore new features and capabilities of Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. Each lesson is presented in full color with step-by-step instructions. Learning is reinforced with video tutorials and lesson files on a companion DVD that were developed by the same team of Adobe Certified Instructors and Dreamweaver experts who have created many of the official training titles for Adobe Systems. Each video tutorial is approximately five minutes long and demonstrates and explains the concepts and features covered in the lesson. This training package demonstrates how to design, develop, and maintain a fully functioning Web site. Coverage includes applying style sheets, using dynamic HTML, adding style with images and multimedia, publishing and maintaining a web site, using hyperlinks to navigate throughout a website or link to other sites on the Internet, and using databases to create dynamic websites. Jam-packed with information, this book takes users from the basics through intermediate level topics and helps readers find the information they need in a clear, approachable manner.

From the Back Cover

You have a personal tutor in the Digital Classroom

If you want expert instruction that fits into your schedule, the Digital Classroom delivers. Adobe Certified Experts guide you through 14 lessons, helping you learn essential Dreamweaver CS4 skills at your own speed. Full-color, step-by-step instructions in the book are supplemented with video tutorials on the DVD. With Digital Classroom, you have your own private instructor showing you the easiest way to learn Dreamweaver CS4.

• Set up Dreamweaver CS4 and use its design and layout tools

• Create, publish, and maintain Web sites

• Add text, images, and Flash animations to your pages

• Build CSS-based Web sites, using styles to create consistent, standards-based site designs

• Maximize site design with reusable Snippets, Library Items and Templates

• Use the Code view to edit pages using XHTML

• Create HTML forms with text fields, drop-down menus, and check boxes

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Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; Pap/Cdr edition (October 27, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470410922
• ISBN-13: 978-0470410929
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #5,826 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Up-and-running with Dreamweaver CS4, October 23, 2008

By	Emily Woods (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

After the first chapter (called lessons in this book) I understood what I needed to know to actually use the software. After five lesson, I'm creating web sites and using cascading style sheets. The book has you follow steps and you use the lesson files on the disc that comes with it, but it's more than simply clicking. There is lots of explanation, so you know why you're doing what is instructed, and you can watch videos for each chapter to see someone walk through parts of the lesson. With videos clips, tutorial files, and the book for around $30, it's a good buy, as I felt like a teacher was right there with me. Every time I had a question, it was addressed at just the right time. Good book.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for "newbies", November 11, 2008

By	Annette P. Roydon (Vermont, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

"I'm relatively new to web design and I needed to learn how to make a simple website for my small business. I got a copy of Dreamweaver CS4 for my birthday and then bought this book based on the Amazon reviews. It's taken a few days for me to get used to the software but this book has helped immensely. I'm someone who learns well with step-by-step directions and this book provides that, but it also adds some background on *why* we are doing something in a certain way. It fits my learning style to be able to work with real lesson files and I was able to make my own web pages using the steps here.

I do wish the videos were longer but they are helpful to have as a reference, so I'll take 1/2 a star away for that. I also wish there was more information on how to get a site up and running on a service provider (?) but I don't think that's the books fault as apparently there are many different ways to do this. (To be fair, there is a chapter on this but it just didn't apply to my case).

However these criticisms shouldn't take away from the fact that this book made working with Dreamweaver fun. Highly recommended."

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dreamweaver CS4 , October 27, 2008

By	John Donahue "Barn Owl Publishing" (Andover, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Dreamweaver CS4 Digital Classroom really gets to the heart of the matter
in explaining Dreamweaver to users of many levels, as well as explaining the added benefits of CS4. Because the author is also an instructor, he understands and explains the more challenging material. Author's pace, enclosed DVD, and Self study exercises and Review Questions allowed me to reinforce the lessons, and, in my case, revisit the exercises where I still needed a little work. This book has helped me understand Dreamweaver!