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Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips (Voices That Matter)

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Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips should be renamed! Lowery and Buraglia put together all the tips that save time, sanity and make life easier for designers and developers. These life saving tips are wrapped up in MX Killer Tips with a refreshing touch of humor.

True, these aren't just ordinary tips on how to use Dreamweaver MX. Other books cover those. These are those little known tips about work arounds, hidden features (did you know DW includes a game?)and the various different methods available to accomplish tasks. Oh and for Mac users - the tips cover Mac methods too.

Leave it to this team of writers to not only cover the more complexed DWMX interface, but also cover cascading style sheets, browser compatibility, layouts, templates, library and other production items, application and coding tips and last but not least customizing and extensibility tips.

Best of all Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips is one of those great "take along" books because each tip is short and concise without requiring you read in any specific order. Next time you are waiting in line somewhere, whip out your copy of Killer Tips and make the wait productive!

New Riders has done it again. They have assembled a reference book that is written with a sense of wryness, but more importantly, the tips gets straight to point. There is at least one tip on every page and every page has a graphic that compliments the text in such a way, you can see precisely the effect at hand. Tips range from the basic simple tasks to some in-depth codes. Every level of Macromedia user would benefit from this book.

With a whole spectrum of hints, secrets and tips, they have organized, what could have been a potential mess, into a smart collection of subjects.

They also take into consideration of the Mac and Window user, by supplying graphics from each arena, to leave no one out. One aspect I appreciate, is when a tip will not work for a specific browser, they state it in the very beginning, letting you determine if you want to continue with that tip.

Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips will make an excellent addition next to your work area.

I've tech edited several books on Dreamweaver MX and I pretty much thought I knew it all, well I found out you never know it all!

This book of about 300 Dreamweaver MX tips didn't wow me at first...I flipped around and saw a bunch of things that I already knew about. But when I sat down and read through the book one tip at a time I began marking tips with post-it notes. When I was 2/3rds of the way through, I had run out of post-its and had to go back and tear previous post-its in half so I could mark the new tips I had found!

My wife's father works in organizational development, and has studied many learning techniques and he says that if you learn one thing from a book that saves you time or makes you more effective, then the experience has been a rousing success. By the end of this book, I had over 20 of these "killer tips" marked, and also had a quick refresher about a few things I knew, but didn't use much. This book experience was quite an outstanding success. I'll be keeping the book near my keyboard until I've drummed all of the tips into my brain.

This book is probably best suited for Intermediate level Dreamweaver MX users who are looking for ways to improve their productivity. This is a 200+ page book that is very colorful inside and has a killer tip per page. If you tried to learn these productivity and usage tips on your own without this book, you could spend at least an hour on each tip and still miss quite a few tips. This book will eliminate 1-2 years from your learning curve and save you hundreds of hours that can be spent on doing more projects.

Here's an example of how valuable these tips are - if you encounter a fatal exception error while working with Dreamweaver, do you know how NOT to lose your work? This tip alone saved me a lot of time when it happened to me (given enough time, it will definitely happen to all users). Another invaluable tip is on using Dreamweaver MX to check how your web page will display in the various browsers out there without actually having all those different browsers!

Some of the tips may not be real killer tips but there aren't that many that gave me such a feeling. In most cases, I am wondering if I just haven't encountered the problem yet and hence fail to see the power of the killer tip.

The best part about the book is that you can open the book on any page and learn something new for the day. If you spend a lot of time designing web sites, you won't regret reading a tip or two per day and in the process benefit tremendously from the time spent with the book. The price is not too bad either so don't hesitate to buy this book. Enjoy the hundreds of killer tips!

From the instant I cracked open the book I was finding nifty efficiency builders that I hadn't know of before--and I've been using DW since the first version.

Users tend to get set in their ways and find what works for them, but this takes you to the next level and helps you create, work (and even play) a little quicker.

If you're a beginner, this is an outstanding resource. If you're a little more advanced, you're still going to be surprised at what you find.

I buy many (ok, maybe TOO many!) web design and programming books every month. Most aren't worth the high cost of computer books these days, but Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips by Joseph Lowery and Angela C. Buraglia is worth the money. The book is filled with wonderful and useful tips for the Dreamweaver MX user. Yes, some of the tips are basic items you would find in a normal users guide, but some are worth the price of the book alone! Save time AND money if you do any serious web development with Dreamweaver MX and get this book!

It's refreshing to read an information-packed book that doesn't act like a text book. Killer Tips has a lot of time-saving advice (in fact, I'm *already* using some of it). It is written in a friendly style that is not intimidating, but still very appealing to the professional web designer. As I would say to my students, "this is a great, informative book, and you don't need a big glass of water to get through it!"

I like the "instant-access" of the book; you don't have to read cover to cover to get the benefits of it. The concept of the book is great - compiling all those little "tip boxes" into one easy to read tome. This method is very helpful to those of us who are already comfortable with the basics, or those of us who just want to know more - and fast!

If you already know how to cook in dreamweaver--spice it up! These tips will help you be more productive and help keep up your excitement for Dreamweaver. It is well published in full color and easy to read/flip thru. It is *not* a how to guide for the beginner.
Very simple example from the book: add a standard toolbar so that you can have common buttons such as new, undo, redo at your fingertips (go to view->toolbars->standard) It will appear above your document.
Want more? check out the the author's website: dwkillertips.com

This book is a little gem! Written in a rather tongue-in-cheek style, the authors provide scads of truly useful tips for using and getting the most out of Dreamweaver MX. Some may find the humor a bit silly, but I liked the way it kept the tone of the book light. I know I'll be grabbing this book a million times to refresh my memory on how to do some of the common tasks in Dreamweaver in the easiest way possible. Definitely a "keeper!"

Title: Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips
Reviewer: Brad Halstead

An awesome 'Killer Tips' compilation from Joseph Lowery and Angela Buraglia (the authors). The authors have done well, presenting the materials in a friendly & mildly humorous way which will tickle the fancy of some for sure. This completely unique Dreamweaver MX book is aptly named and contains over 289 (plus or minus a few) productivity tips and secrets organized into suitable categories and contain just the meat with none of the 'Where's the beef?'.. it's all meat, hold the potatoes!

The 'Killer Tips' categories include Interface Tips; Power CSS Tips; The Best Table Tips; Browser Compatibility Tips, Advanced Layout Tips; Templates, Library and Production Tips; Dreamweaver Tip Variety Pack; Application Building Tips; Cool Coding Tips & Customization and Extensibility Tips. Each Category containing at least 25 power packed tips.

What will these 'Killer Tips' do for you? They won't teach you Dreamweaver MX for certain, but they will teach you how to become more productive using it, from keyboard shortcuts to extending, it's all here.

Who's this book for? This book is for anyone making any use of Dreamweaver MX at all, from complete newbie to the experienced power user.. we can all learn something from this book (even if you're not interested in extension developing or a power user)!

You should have this one near your desk for sure when you're finding yourself repeating the same mouse clicks over and over again, 3 or 4 menu's deep or can't remember how to access the Easter Egg in the Property inspector and so much more...

A great read!