Customer Reviews

Teach Yourself Visually: Dreamweaver MX 2004

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Within 3 days, I am up and publishing with Dreamweaver using this book. I have very minimal knowledge of HTML (I mean minimal). But, I am not even relying on that. I am using the WYSIWYG (Design Mode).

Incredible! I recommend it to everyone. Yet, do know that it does not come with the Dreamweaver software. However, you can download a free 30-day trial, which is more than enough time to go through the exercises in this book. You can download the trial at www.Dreamweaver.com.

The pages guide you with numbered instructions. The numbered instructions point to the corresponding area and action on the image posted on that page. The images are exactly the way the screen is. Just when you have a question, you will find an even more appealing picture with answers to your possible questions. In addition, the writers did a great job. Their instructions are clear and fun!

I have the Dummies book (which does come with the software trial and it is pretty good) but, this one is easier to follow and visually entertaining.

An excellent investment!

I learned Dreamweaver quickly and easily with this book. The other books I read takes a lot of time to digest and you tend to forget much after all the longwiring steps of an exercise.
This book gives you precise and direct instructions and shows you the results with beautiful pictures. Learning is effortless and fun. I recommend this book.

The full color step-by-step screen shots at the bottom half of the book are extremely informative. However, the pages are too cluttered with visual information. The excessive use of full color imagery becomes overwhelming. If the book were to focus on the full color step-by-step screen shots at the bottom half of the book and eliminate the clunky introduction illustrations above, it would be a 5 star book.

Great book to get you set up. Requires some concentration but definitely increases your knowledge base which is what this is all about....Try it...

I started out learning Dreamweaver by reading the book DREAMWEAVER MX 2004 by Khristine Page, which is almost 600 pages and mostly text, and I quickly felt overwhelmed by the amount of information and so was unable to do much to get started. Part of the problem in starting with that book was that I didn't know anything about Dreamweaver, and so was having a hard time following the text at all. So I turned to this book, TEACH YOURSELF VISUALLY: DREAMWEAVER MX 2004, and it was just the thing to get me going at first. All the visuals made it so easy so see exactly what to do on my computer in each section. The book is clearly written too, so I was seldom confused. However, there are so many graphics that there's not enough detail here to get you past the beginning stages. Thus, I'm looking for a great highly detailed Dreamweaver guide to take me to the next level, and I'm not crazy about the one by Page that I mentioned earlier. But, I do recommend TEACH YOURSELF VISUALLY: DREAMWEAVER MX 2004 by Warener and Gardner to get you started.

I have wanted to produce web sites for years, but training books always lost me half way through. Not so with this one. I highly recommend it. The layout is a little different. There is a brief description or answer to a question at the top of each page. Then a series of step by step screen shots below. In most cases each page stands on its own. This is great because you can stop just about anywhere without getting lost. One small problem for my bifocal-assisted eyes was that the icons in the screen shots ended up so small that they were hard for me to see at times. (Not a problem if you are young or have the program open in front of you.)

Got to Ch. 2 in this book and realized I didn't have
any "files" to go along with the book. Tried to follow
along but still, it kept telling me to highlight code
or click on certain lines and highlight lines of
text.....?!?!?!

Also, every "visual" screen shot was for windows. Not
Mac friendly and very confusing for a veteran Mac OS
user.

I bought the book to learn Dreamweaver. I don't have
any Dreamweaver files and the book didn't come with a
CD. I e-mailed the author to see if I was missing
something.

They wrote me back and said the book was designed to
be used with my own files, WHICH I DON'T HAVE.

Very good concept as far as "visually learning." Poor
execution in teaching people to use a program if you
can't "follow along" with the files given as examples.
( And negative points for using Windows screen shots.)

Bottom Line: This book is useless unless the author
provides a CD with the examples shown in the book, or
offers them as downloads online.

Haven't used any other of the "Teach Yourself
Visually" books, but if they're anything like this -
don't bother.

This book was a HUGE disappointment!

REPEAT - don't buy this book if you're trying to learn Dreamweaver.

Awesome book. Very helpful. Love it.