Teach Yourself VISUALLY Macromedia Web Collection: Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks® [Paperback]

Sherry Willard Kinkoph (Author), Mike Wooldridge (Author), Sue Plumley (Author), Michael S. Toot (Author)

Book Description

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

Teach Yourself VISUALLY™ Macromedia® Web Collection uses the proven Visual step-by-step approach to learning the best of Macromedia products - in full color! Coverage includes Flash animation, Dreamweaver page design, and Fireworks integration. This is a full-color tutorial with clear, concise, jargon-free instructions with over 500 color screenshots throughout. Jam-packed with information, this book goes beyond the basics. The book covers the latest versions of Macromedia's popular Web software tools: Flash 5, Fireworks 4 and Dreamweaver 4.

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Read Less — Learn More^TM

"Your step-by-step instructions and beautiful illustrations greatly simplify what so many other books overlook." —Richard Hata (Los Angeles, CA, USA)

"Thank you for making it so clear. I will buy many more Visual books." —J.P. Sangdong (North York, Ontario, Canada)

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 get up and running with all three of Macromedia's popular Web creation tools — Flash 5, Dreamweaver 4, and Fireworks 4. Open the book, and in no time you'll be working with tweens and sounds in Flash, adding frames and layers in Dreamweaver, and creating buttons and rollovers in Fireworks.

TEACH YOURSELF

• "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

Mike Wooldridge is a technology writer and Web designer in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has a day job at Namesecure, which registers domain names. He is the author of several other books in the Visual series, including Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop 6. For more information about using Dreamweaver, visit his site, www.mediacosm.com.

Sue Plumley has a B.A. in education and taught in public school before starting her own business, Humble Opinions, in 1988. Humble Opinions is a firm that specializes in computer consulting and training. In the years since she started Humble Opinions, Sue has trained staff and employees of local companies, large corporations, and federal agencies in the use of various applications, including FrontPage and Fireworks. She also offers support for the use of different products. In addition, Sue has taught Internet classes at the College of West Virginia and Glenville College. Finally, Sue has written and contributed to over seventy books about computer software for various publishers, including Hungry Minds (formerly IDG Books), John Wiley and Sons, Que Corporation, and DDC.

Michael Toot is and author and software program manager in the Seattle area. He is an MCSE and MCP+I and has been involved with Microsoft operating system since 1992. He has written a book on Windows 2000 Server and enjoys learning new programs and operating systems, even those not from Microsoft. When not working or writing books, he is reading, sailing, writing movie reviews, fiction, and nonfiction, and conducting adventures in home renovation and repair on his ninety-three year old home.

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Visual; illustrated edition edition (September 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764536486
• ISBN-13: 978-0764536489
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,306,878 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #46 in Books > Computers & Technology > Graphic Design > Web Design > Fireworks

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Value!, December 21, 2002

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Dmitry Kristal (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Macromedia Web Collection: Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks® (Paperback)

If you hate reading like I do, buy this book. It has killer colorful pages. If you are a beginner and would like to get your feet wet, look no further! If you are advanced user, you might want to think it over. Look at the index first before deciding on buying it.

2.0 out of 5 stars wasn't what I expected from the series, December 9, 2009

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Ms211 "ImSteal211" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Macromedia Web Collection: Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks® (Paperback)

I have had a lot better results from this series with other products... but this fail short. Perhaps because it's more than one program into one book. It's not thorough and it's pretty basic!