Teach Yourself VISUALLY Dreamweaver 4 [Paperback]

Mike Wooldridge (Author)

Book Description

Series: Teach Yourself Visually | Publication Date: June 15, 2001

Written by Dreamweaver professional user and UC Berkeley Extension instructor Mike Woolridge, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Dreamweaver® 4 contains hundreds of full-color, oversized, ultra-clear screenshots for the visual learner. Each task is illustrated, showing you each step, screen by screen. No programming or HTML experience required -- you learn to create Web pages without writing code. Topics include converting from Photoshop, Cascading Style Sheets, Automatic link checking, Animation Timelines, and more. From using the Web-safe color palette to using Dreamweaver's pre-coded objects to adding movies, checkboxes, and more, this full-color guide to the latest version of Dreamweaver will appeal to visual learners at all levels.

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About the Author

Mike Wooldridge (Berkeley, California) has worked as an independent Web developer, technology writer, and educator since 1995, and has been using Dreamweaver since version 1.0, and because of its exceptional support for handling large web sites, uses it as his primary tool for maintaining client web sites. He's written about Web technology for various publications, including Macworld, CNET and MacHome Journal. His articles have covered Web design, graphics and multimedia.
He is currently teaching classes on HTML for UC Berkeley Extension, having developed a new "Designing Graphics for the Web" class-which of course covers Dreamweaver-that will start in the spring. In 1998, Mike won an award from Apple Computer for a project built with QuickTime VR, a photographic virtual-reality technology. mediacosm.com/refrigerator
He is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz's Graduate Program in Science Writing, which trains scientists to write about technical subjects for lay audiences, as well as a degree from UC Berkeley in genetics.

Product Details

• Paperback: 316 pages
• Publisher: Visual (June 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764508512
• ISBN-13: 978-0764508516
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,971,405 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mike Wooldridge is a user-interface designer and Web developer. He has authored more than 20 books for Wiley's Visual series.

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Beginner Book, November 6, 2001

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Eric Rosario "BooBee" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Dreamweaver 4 (Paperback)

These visual books are awesome for beginners. If you have never touched a program before and need to learn from scratch then these are the books you need. These books spoon feed the information to you using visual graphics of each window and option you would see on the screen.

If you have used a specific program before and are looking to increase your knowledge you will find this book more like A,B,C's. So unless your brand new, novices and experts will find these books a waste of time. They do not go into specific advance features but do teach new comers how to become novice users.

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy It !!!!!, July 12, 2001

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"gjs51" (Niagara Falls, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Dreamweaver 4 (Paperback)

Excellent book for Beginners. I was a Frontpage user until I bought this book. This book gives good details and picture's on how to use Dreamweaver 4.0. Highly Recommend it !!!!!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's like having a great instructor in paperback form!, August 12, 2004

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Melissa Niksic (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Dreamweaver 4 (Paperback)

This is an amazing book. A professor suggested that I check it out, and I'm glad I did. I became a Dreamweaver expert without having to attend a class or ask a lot of questions, because everything you could possibly want to know is right in front of you! When I bought the book, I had a good grasp on how to use Microsoft FrontPage but wanted to learn a more sophisticated program. The book details everything I needed to know in order to build a professional site in Dreamweaver and provides picture tutorials for every step. It is the equivalent of taking a Dreamweaver class and watching the instructor go through all the different steps using a projected computer screen, but this is even better because you can go back and re-read things if they don't make sense at first (although that rarely happens). This whole series of books is worth checking out if you need an introduction on how to use a new program.