Master VISUALLY Dreamweaver 4 and Flash 5 [Paperback]

Sherry Willard Kinkoph (Author), Mike Wooldridge (Author), Brock Bigard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2001 | Series: Master Visually

Hundreds of oversized screenshots guide you through each task, screen-by-screen in Master VISUALLY Dreamweaver 4 and Flash 5! This is the only book with real-life, type and work projects for Dreamweaver and Flash! It even includes a sample generic web site created with Dreamweaver and Flash that you can modify to your specific needs!

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From the Back Cover

"One picture is worth a thousand words." If you prefer instructions that show you rather than tell you, then this comprehensive reference is for you. Hundreds of succinctly captioned, step-by-step screen shots reveal how to accomplish more than 300 Dreamweaver 4 and Flash 5 tasks, including:

• Creating tables with Dreamweaver
• Designing with frames
• Implementing JavaScript behaviors
• Drawing and painting Flash objects
• Animating with tweening
• Creating interactive buttons
• Adding Flash actions
• Animating menus
• Replicating movie clips
• Creating a filmstrip effect

• "Master It" sidebars answer questions and present shortcuts
• High-resolution screen shots demonstrate each task
• Succinct explanations walk you through step-by-step
• Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

Web development tools on CD-ROM!

• A complete, fully customizable Web site
• Dreamweaver 4 and Flash 5 trial versions
• HomeSite 4.5 and Paint Shop Pro 7 evaluation versions plus other software tools
• A fully searchable e-version of the book

About the Author

About the Author Sherry Willard Kinkoph has written more than 40 books over the past nine years, covering a variety of computer topics ranging from software to hardware, from Microsoft Office programs to the Internet. Sherry's ongoing quest is to help users of all levels master the ever-changing computer technologies. No matter how many times they — the software giants and hardware conglomerates — throw out a new version or upgrade, Sherry vows to be there to make sense of it all and help computer users get the most out of their machines. Mike Wooldridge is a Web developer in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has authored several other Visual^™ books, including Teach Yourself Visually Dreamweaver 4 and Teach Yourself Visually Photoshop 6. For more information about Dreamweaver, see his Web site at www.mediacosm.com/dreamweaver. Brock Bigard is a Multimedia Development Specialist for Hungry Minds, Inc., where he creates interfaces for the CD-ROMs that accompany the publisher's books. He is a first-time author who studied computer science at Indiana University. He also develops promotional CD-ROMs for Hungry Minds and other companies.

Product Details

• Paperback: 537 pages
• Publisher: Visual (August 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764508555
• ISBN-13: 978-0764508554
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8.1 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,866,345 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good book., March 21, 2002

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Lee A. Wentzel (Portage, Michigan USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Master VISUALLY Dreamweaver 4 and Flash 5 (Paperback)

(...) I was reluctant to buy this book. This book is not for the complete novice. You need to have a very basic understanding of HTML. What this book does is give you a very good over view of both Dreamweaver 4 and Flash 5. It then goes two steps further. It shows how you can use both programs together, easily, and it shows some advance functions of Flash 5.0. If you have both programs, and have a little hands on experience this is the ideal book for you. The two things that ended up being the deciding factor on getting this book was how clearly they show you where things are. This was very important to me, as my wife wanted to learn both programs and would be able to do so easily. Next, I sat down and compared this one book to two other books I was considering buying. (One was an Dreamweaver 4 book and the other a Flash 5 book.) In doing so I found that this book covered nearly everything they did, but offered the additional information on using the programs together and advance features of Flash. Price wise, it was cheaper buying this one book then buying the two.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poo-Poo, January 8, 2002

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L. Young (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Master VISUALLY Dreamweaver 4 and Flash 5 (Paperback)

Will someone hand me some crayons, because I don't know of any other use for this COLORING BOOK!!!

I bought this book as a student who needed a quick reference to do homework assignments. For instance, one homework assignment was to make a template. I knew nada about Dreamweaver, so a wordy tutorial was over my head. I picked this picture filled book up and not only made a template, but understood it! Each step illustrated by lines pointing to the the screen shot menus blew me away! Oh the ease for a newbie like me. Must be paradise. But the honeymoon ended when I bought it and needed to actually make my first web page start to finish.

The chapters jump from one topic to another. It's like several folks were working on this book who didn't communicate. There's no sequential order, just chaos. There's no troubleshooting either. If you follow steps 1-5 and they don't work, there's no "If it doesn't work, do ___" or "make sure you do ___ or it won't work." Oh, the headaches!

I use it as a quick visual reference every now and then. But I regret spending the money because I could get references from online user tutorials. I'll never buy another book in this series again, unles of course I know a child who needs a coloring book :)

1.0 out of 5 stars DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK, February 26, 2002

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Angela McClelland (Wheeling, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Master VISUALLY Dreamweaver 4 and Flash 5 (Paperback)

This book is a waste of money. If you want a great guide to Dreamweaver 4, this is about as far from one as you can get. There is more about Flash 5 than Dreamweaver, and there are more pictures than text. I'd suggest to leave this one on the shelf and check out Dreamweaver 4: The Complete Reference. You won't be dissappointed with that one.