From FrontPage to Dreamweaver (With CD-ROM) [Paperback]

Joseph W. Lowery (Author)

Book Description

Series: One-Off | Publication Date: November 15, 2001

From FrontPage to Dreamweaver is specifically written for those FrontPage users who want to make the transition to Dreamweaver as quickly and painlessly as possible. The book includes powerful extensions that will facilitate migration of sites from FrontPage to Dreamweaver. Author Joseph Lowery is one of the most highly regarded members of the Dreamweaver community, and the CD includes a segment from the Macromedia-authorized video training on how to go from FrontPage to Dreamweaver.

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From FrontPage to Dreamweaver is specifically written for those FrontPage users who want to make the transition to Dreamweaver as quickly and painlessly as possible. The book includes powerful extensions that will facilitate migration of sites from FrontPage to Dreamweaver. Author Joseph Lowery is one of the most highly regarded members of the Dreamweaver community, and the CD includes a segment from the Macromedia-authorized video training on how to go from FrontPage to Dreamweaver.

About the Author

Joseph Lowery is the author of the Dreamweaver Bible and the Fireworks Bible series, as well as the Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 Bible. His books are international bestsellers, having sold more than 200,000 copies worldwide in nine different languages. Joseph is also a consultant and trainer, and has presented at Seybold in Boston and San Francisco, Macromedia UCON in the United States and Europe, and at ThunderLizard's Web World. As a partner in Deva Associates LLC, Joseph developed for Dreamweaver a set of navigational extensions called the Deva Tools.

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Que (November 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789726882
• ISBN-13: 978-0789726889
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,905,776 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joseph Lowery's books about the web and web-building tools are international bestsellers, having sold more than 400,000 copies worldwide in nine different languages. His most recent book is the Dreamweaver 8 Bible. Joseph is the author of the recently published CSS Hacks and Filters as well as the Dreamweaver Bible and Fireworks Bible series from Wiley Publishing. He also wrote Design and Deploy Web Sites with Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Contribute 3 from Macromedia Press. In addition to co-authoring Dreamweaver 8 Recipes and Dreamweaver MX 2004 Web Application Recipes with Eric Ott as well as the Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips series with Angela Buraglia.

As a programmer, Joseph contributed two extensions to the latest release of Fireworks and many extensions available for Dreamweaver. He has presented at Seybold in both Boston and San Francisco, Macromedia conferences in the U.S. and Europe, ThunderLizard's Web World, and KW Media Group's Mac Design Conference. Joseph is currently the Director of Marketing for WebAssist.

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Fluff Content, Useless CD-ROM Material, March 12, 2002

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Jim Moore (Panama City, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: From FrontPage to Dreamweaver (With CD-ROM) (Paperback)

Take a look at the specs of this book before you purchase: Amazon says it's 9"x6" and 168 pages. If you'll think about that, it's quite small, and the 168 page count includes 42 pages of glossary, index, and front matter. A scant 125 small pages of content, and all of it very introductory (nothing on databases, for instance). Some examples: "Creating an E-mail Link," "Cutting and Pasting Text into Dreamweaver," "Entering Basic Text," ....

I've developed several sites in FrontPage, and this book is of little value to current FrontPage users. Given the title, I was expecting something along the lines of "If you do X in FrontPage, do Y in Dreamweaver to accomplish the same task." Nowhere near: the only thing close is a 16-entry, one-page "jargon guide" on the inside back cover.

The included CD-ROM is completely bogus: it's actually a video capture of screen shots accompanied by the author reading the text of the book! (Or maybe the book is a transcript of the original training material.) In either case, to install and view the CD-ROM content you must download an IE add-on, plus the video content only includes about the first two and a half chapters of the book; the balance of the content is offered to you in the "Platinum Edition" for the truly amazing sale price...

You should be able to glean all this information from the Dreamweaver tutorial. Save your money, buy one of the guy's complete books instead (Dreamweaver 4 Bible, for instance).

Why the two-star rating? The author offers to answer readers' e-mailed questions. That's worth something....