Teach Yourself VISUALLY Dreamweaver MX [Paperback]

Ivonne Berkowitz (Author), Janine Warner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 19, 2002 | Series: Teach Yourself Visually

"Your series is the most precise, visually appealing, and compelling to peruse. Kudos!" - Margaret Rose Chmilar (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
"A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words!" -Lorri Pegan-Durastante (Wickliffe, OH)
Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something - and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 150 Dreamweaver MX tasks, from working with images, multimedia, templates, and DHTML to creating tables, frames, forms, and database-driven sites.
* "Teach Yourself" sidebars offer practical tips and tricks
* Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task
* Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
* Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

"Your series is the most precise, visually appealing, and compelling to peruse. Kudos!" – Margaret Rose Chmilar (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)

"A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words!" –Lorri Pegan-Durastante (Wickliffe, OH)

Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something – and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and youll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 150 Dreamweaver MX tasks, from working with images, multimedia, templates, and DHTML to creating tables, frames, forms, and database-driven sites.

• "Teach Yourself" sidebars offer practical tips and tricks
• Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task
• Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
• Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

About the Author

Janine Warner is the author of several books about the Internet including Dreamweaver For Dummies and Managing Web Projects For Dummies. She is also a part-time faculty member at the University of Miami, where she teaches a Dreamweaver Web Design course for the School of Communication.

Ivonne Berkowitz is the co-author of Dreamweaver MX For Dummies and is the Web Designer for PBS&J, a top-ranking engineering fir in South Florida.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Visual; 1 edition (August 19, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764536974
• ISBN-13: 978-0764536977
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,880,196 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Hi, I'm Janine Warner, and as you might have guessed, my life revolves around the internet - teaching it, designing it, and always, always learning from it.

Because not everything you read on the Internet is reliable, you can expect that at least two of the following facts in my biography are completely made-up.

1. I'm a journalist turned geek. Sometimes I call myself a 'techy translator' or a 'digital alchemist' -- my favorite made-up titles so far. I imagine future generations will remember us the way we look back on Medieval wizards trying to turn lead into gold.

2. I was bitten by a radioactive computer bug, which gave me my amazing web powers... (Okay, that fact may not be from a reliable source.)

3. I started out as a reporter and editor and got hooked on the Internet early. Since 1996, I've written more than a dozen books, including Web Sites DIY For Dummies, Dreamweaver For Dummies (every edition), and Mobile Web Design For Dummies.

4. I've created and recorded more than 50 hours of training videos on Web design, Dreamweaver, CSS, and Expression Web for Kelby Training and Total Training. (You can learn more about my videos at DigitalFamily.com).

5. I'm fascinated by how mobile is changing the Internet and I'm now working on a book about designing for the iPad, iPhone and other touchscreen devices.

6. I spend most of my time running a consulting firm and writing books about Web design. I also travel all over the world for conferences and events and because I speak fluent Spanish, I've been fortunate to travel a lot in Latin America and Spain.

7. In 1998, I was hired by The Miami Herald, first as their online managing editor and a year later, as Director of New Media. I left that position to run CNET's Latin American operations in Miami. Since 2002, I've run my own consulting and writing business.

8. As a child, I trained my pet Siberian Snow Tiger to ski the steepest slope in the Alps, the dreaded Hannenkahm. Despite reaching speeds in excess of 80 miles per hour on the treacherous course, the Olympic Committee refused to admit him. (This point is so very, very true.)

9. I've taught courses in online journalism at the University of Southern California and the University of Miami and I've been a guest lecturer at more than 20 other universities.

10. I've served as a judge for several internet contests in the U.S. and Latin America, and in the course of that work, I helped create an Internet Literacy program for high school students in Latin America.

Learn more about Janine's books, videos, and Web design consulting at www.DigitalFamily.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful but not what I wanted..., June 18, 2003

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Jo Anne Lambert (S. Mantoloking, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Dreamweaver MX (Paperback)

This is certainly a visually beautiful book. And, for many people new to Dreamweaver, it might be exactly what they're looking for. Unfortunately, it's not what I am looking for. For example, there are beautiful illustrations of website home pages throughout the book. What I would have liked to have seen is how to create THOSE websites step-by-step. How do you create those attractive banners? How do you create those entire-page-backgrounds? What I want is a book that visually shows me beautiful websites, then shows me how to create them...from basic index.html page and interesting graphics incorporated onto the page, to linked pages, animations (flash) etc. This book just doesn't do it.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Removed the fear of creating web site, May 7, 2003

By A Customer

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

At first, I was excited when ask to create a web site for my company. After reading my first HTML book, that excitement was soon replaced by fear. My company had provided site creation software but I was dumbfounded about where to start. Most of the books I had bought were too advanced for me and I began to think I just couldn't do this web site thing.

That was until I discovered this book. It was a good starting off point, visually showing the steps to start creating basic web pages. One week after receiving this book, I had created a web site.

Most books are intended to help the reader master the program, this book had just enough information to help me learn the program. Although I now need to purchase another book to help master Dreamweaver, this book still deserves five stars because I would have never been able to learn Dreamweaver without it.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Teach Yourself Visually Dreamweaver Mx, May 14, 2003

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Frank F. Jurkovich "frankjurkovich" (Rancho Mirage, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Dreamweaver MX (Paperback)

This book is excellent for a quickstart using an unknown program.
Also, very good as a reference document when one gets a little rusty.