Learning Web Page Design w/Adobe CS3 Student Edition [Spiral-bound]

Katherine Murray (Author)

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 428 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (March 24, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0135044995
• ISBN-13: 978-0135044995
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,383,194 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Hi! Thanks for taking a look at my books. I've been writing about all kinds of topics--technology, digital lifestyle, parenting, nature, eco-spirituality, fundraising, and more--for more than 20 years, and I still love it. Writing lets me follow my curiosities (Evernote, Mango, Windows 8, green tech, and more), explore what fascinates me, and then share what I learn. I love that! My most recent books include "My Evernote" (Que, 2012), "A Simple Guide to Eco-Spirituality" (Luminis Books, 2012), "My Windows 7 PC" (Que, 2011), "Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime" (Microsoft Press, 2011), and "Listening to the Earth: Meditations on Experiencing and Belonging to Nature" (Lorian Press, 2011).

Over the years I've written a number of books about Microsoft Office (in all its versions), but my favorites are my most recent ones: "Microsoft Office 2010 Plain & Simple," "Microsoft Word 2010 Plain & Simple," and "Microsoft Word Insight Out," all from Microsoft Press. It is great fun to work with the software over many years and be able to see how things develop and change. Fascinating!

I hope one of these books--or another book you find today--meets a need you have or answers a question you've been wondering about. Thank you for taking a look at my work! Kind regards, Katherine

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1.0 out of 5 stars Didn't learn hardly anything., October 6, 2008

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Wendy Gill "Wendy" (Sterling Heights, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Learning Web Page Design w/Adobe CS3 Student Edition (Spiral-bound)

My class has been using this book for 5 weeks now and I can honestly say that I haven't learned much at all. The book is hard to follow, explains things in paragraphs instead of step by step instructions like a computer program should be explained and very few photos showing examples. The only step by step instructions is at the end of each chapter called "Procedures" where it is all vaguely cramped on to less than one or two pages covering several "how to" topics. I ended up buying the Adobe Classroom in a Book for Dreamweaver to get me through this section of the class and because this book also covers Flash, I suspect I will be getting the Classroom in a Book for that too.

2.0 out of 5 stars Very frustrating, June 8, 2009

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L. Boocker - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Learning Web Page Design w/Adobe CS3 Student Edition (Spiral-bound)

This is a textbook in my Web Publishing class. It tries to show how an actual website gets developed using Dreamweaver. The core of the book is a series of step by step exercises that gradually build a website. Here are the reasons the book is so frustrating:

1) Information out of sequence. Some of the exercises require knowledge that is only provided by later exercises.

2) Ambiguous instructions so you're not sure what the final product is supposed to look like.

3) Everything builds on earlier work. So if you make a mistake in any exercise, all the later exercises become impossible.

4) The book focuses almost entirely on how to do things, not why. If you want to learn how to make good design decisions, this book won't help.