Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Hands-On Training is the latest, updated version of the highly acclaimed tutorial from leading Web-design trainers Garo Green and Abigail Rudner. Thousands of readers have learned how to use Dreamweaver by simply following the step-by-step exercises in this foolproof book. Advanced sections of the book show how to create interactive, moving elements in your Web site, and how to download and use the hundreds of free extensions available online to Macromedia Dreamweaver users. And throughout the book, readers learn useful bits of information about HTML, online type, Web color, and more, while Quicktime movie tutorials demonstrate complex techniques.
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Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Hands-On Training is the latest, updated version of the highly acclaimed tutorial from leading Web-design trainers Garo Green and Abigail Rudner. Thousands of readers have learned how to use Dreamweaver by simply following the step-by-step exercises in this foolproof book. Advanced sections of the book show how to create interactive, moving elements in your Web site, and how to download and use the hundreds of free extensions available online to Macromedia Dreamweaver users. And throughout the book, readers learn useful bits of information about HTML, online type, Web color, and more, while Quicktime movie tutorials demonstrate complex techniques.
About the Author
Garo Green is an author, instructor, and curriculum developer atlynda.com who works in web design and computer graphics using Macromedia products. Known for his enthusiasm and humanistic approach to teaching, he has been a featured speaker at the Flash Forward conferences. He is the co-author of Flash 5 Hands-On Training and Dreamweaver 4 Hands-On Training.
Abigail Rudner is a Web design consultant and trainer. The principle creative of her design company, BIG FUN Designs, Abigail and her team produce illustrative content for a wide range of multimedia and print projects. She has worked with top clients including Levi's, Wells Fargo, Dow Jones, America Online, Apple Computers, and Microsoft Press. This is her first book for Peachpit Press.
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39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Effective educationally, editorially efiicient, and easy.,
By Marc Cenedella "www.cenedella.com/stone" (East Village, New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Hands-On Training (Paperback)
I come to Dreamweaver as a reasonably good HTML programmer, and an advanced beginner in PHP and MySQL. I was looking for a Dreamweaver book that would get me up to speed quickly on the ins and outs of the program, without a lot of unnecessary text and gobble-de-gook thickening the volume but not imparting information. On that basis, Dreamweaver HOT succeed - it is an entirely comprehensive book for the beginning Dreamweaver-er, especially if you have no HTML experience and come to the application as a Designer. If you are a bit more advanced, you'll find this book quite easy to skim through, as its easy design makes jumping redundant parts possible, but ultimately you'll find it a little bit lightweight.Overall, the book is well laid out with sections tackling each of the major areas you'd be interested in learning: tables, CSS, the odious frames, rollovers, etc. I knocked this off In a long afternoon - despite being 645 pages - as it is very image heavy, which seems to make sense for the material. The layout is very nice and "webby", if that adjective makes sense. The authors are obviously knowledgeable and come across as sympathetic without being patronizing (unlike the Dummies books which I used to adore but now despise.) The authors, from their backpage promo photos, appear to be 20-somethings, and the book is written at that level. A lot of "sweet", "nice!", and "cool" interjections in here, and some hipster commiseration with the fact that you're inside reading a *computer programming* guide rather than, say, listening to Blonde Redhead down at the alternative coffee shop. These never come across as cloying or goofy, though, and in my opinion make the somewhat dry subject matter a little easier to slog through. There is a lot of hand-holding in this book for the designer. The authors are very careful to flag any missteps or strange things you might come across. They explain each feature from two or three different angles, without being repetitive. And they are very thorough in making sure that nobody could be left behind due to poor Macromedia design, conflicting web standards or misunderstood terminology, e.g., "As you work through Dreamweaver MX, you will notice references to a local root folder, a root folder, and root. All these terms are interchangeable. Each refers to a folder on your hard drive that contains all of the HTML, images, etc. for your Web site. This can be any folder on your computer. It can be empty, or it can have an entirely completed Web site. Don't be confused by this slight difference in terminology." None left behind. The authors also do a reasonably good job of guessing what a designer might be looking to accomplish, laying out the steps to get there, and placing flashing warning lights near common mistakes: "As you have just seen, the purpose of this exercise was to get you comfortable inserting different Form objects and modifying some of their properties. Remember, to make a form perform its functions, you would need to attach a CGI or other scripting program to it." I skipped the hands-on demos on the attached CD as they seemed targeted at folks who have confidence problems in dealing with menus, forms, and pop-up interfaces. So I can't tell you a lot about how well those work. This book is most appropriate for designers, people with limited or no HTML knowledge, and folks looking to just make a site without having to become an expert in computer science. With that as the target market, I think this book succeeds very well, and is well worth it or you. I feel that somebody with coding experience and a good understanding of HTML could probably find a better place to spend... for a Dreamweaver guide. Big chunks of the application - those that deal with scripting, database interfaces, etc., are "out of the scope" of this book, which is editorially consistent with their target audience, but probably not what you are looking for. In your case, perhaps the O'Reilly book would be better. I'm reading that this upcoming week and should have a review up then. So although I'm happy with the level of knowledge I acquired, I give this book a 5 out of 5 for newbies and a 3 out of 5 for experienced web people. Enjoy.
31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Simply Great Book, Great Approach!!!,
By WestSide (California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Hands-On Training (Paperback)
Dreamweaver MX HOT (Hands-On Training) is a great book.I am only on page 156, and the book has gone through the basic fundamentals, showing different ways DW MX can accomplish different tasks. I highly recommend this book as an addition to your collection. I have bought maybe 6-7 books, returned some, kept others, this is one I will keep. It shows you images (blank & white) of how your page should look as you move through the exercises. It is really a book to have if you are looking for the tutorial approach as opposed to just a reference book! Thumbs up!
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Introduction in Plain English - Very Detailed.,
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This review is from: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Hands-On Training (Paperback)
As the name indicates, this is truly a 'Hands-On Training' book. The writing style of the book is focused on explaining how to perform various actions and accomplish the desired results using the step by step illustrations. It is a simple, clear, and fairly complete introduction to using Dreamweaver MX for creating stellar websites. If you are used to an abstract discussion of a topic, you will NOT find it here and may be very frustrated by the lack of defined principles to teaching Dreamweaver MX. One simple example of this problem is with the discussion of Absolute and Relative Links. If you are trying to understand the definitions, advantages/disadvantages, and usage at first glance, you will be disappointed with the exercise style format. It will take a couple of readings to glean that type of information from the book. Throughout the book, every topic starts out by giving you the details of different results and ways to accomplishing them. It is up to you to figure out the principles behind Dreamweaver MX (if you are interested in that sort of thing). The book does clearly indicate in the title and in the introductory pages that it was NOT written for technical folks or programmers, but for non-technical/non-programmer audience. If you meet the criteria for the intended audience, this is just an absolutely fantastic book to get you started with Web Design using Dreamweaver MX. You do not need to master HTML to use Dreamweaver MX and hence the book doesnt try to teach you HTML. The book is a bit on the pricey side but well worth the investment. The book comes with a CD-ROM that has 30 day trial versions of Dreamweaver MX, Fireworks MX. It is helpful for those with dial-up connections to have the software on CD-ROM to avoid long download times. The CD-ROM also comes with the exercise files which are very valuable for practice. Though you could very easily use any site on the Web for practicing the various concepts, it is easy to just use the examples from the book to stay with the Author's explanation. The paper quality and page layout is very pleasing throughout the book. Sometimes, the wrong kind of paper can discourage frequent use of a book. This book does not suffer from that problem. The entire book is in black and white though and there are no color images anywhere in the book. The only color you will see is on the cover of the book. This hasn't been a problem for me yet. I would imagine this could be a problem for similar book on Fireworks MX or Flash MX that are more graphic intensive. What really stands out about the book is the thorough coverage of almost everything that is involved in using Dreamweaver MX. And you dont even have to be a programmer! No wonder this almost 700 page book has such a good sales rank at Amazon.com. There are other really good books on the topic so do check out the others before deciding on this pricier choice. I hope you enjoy the book as much I do.
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