Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.72
EAN: 9780201702408
ISBN: 0201702401
Label: Peachpit Press
Manufacturer: Peachpit Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: April 25, 2000
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Sales Rank: 1410992
Studio: Peachpit Press

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Provides an easy, visual approach to teaching Dreamweaver, using pictures to guide students through the software and show what to do in a step-by-step manner. Softcover.

Amazon.com Review:
Whether you're a beginner who needs a quick introduction to Dreamweaver or an intermediate user who needs help with one of the program's newer or more complex features, this handy guide is perfect. Instead of a tutorial where you work through a specific project, the lesson in this book walks you through your documents while you work on them.

If you've used QuickStart guides before, you know how convenient they are as references. Succinct text eliminates having to wade through discourses on theory or history, and a thorough index directs you to answers quickly. Plus, with their small footprint, these guides earn their place on a crowded desk. The QuickStart series is consistent in style (with numbered steps in one column, screen shots in the other) and quality.

Even within this established format, author J. Tarin Towers's light and friendly style shows through--making for interesting reading. The author has also included numerous sidebars on how things work (for example, using measuring units such as pixels, picas, or ems) and timesaving features (for example, the Hints menu in the Quick Tags editor). Alternate methods for executing tasks and other handy information can be found in the many tips that follow each section.

Macintosh users in particular should read the introduction, which explains the few, but crucial, differences in the Windows version of Dreamweaver. This affects the way screen shots look throughout the book.

This edition has four new chapters that cover changes in Dreamweaver 3. Since one of the best features of Dreamweaver is the ease with which you can view and edit source code, the book devotes a chapter to HTML and the application's tools for working with it (for example, the new Clean Up Word HTML command). With more than 500 pages, this is one of the longer QuickStart guides and well worth a spot on a Webmaster's desk. --Angelynn Grant

Topics covered: Step-by-step instructions for using Dreamweaver 3 (including an introduction to the working environment, palettes, and menus); creating a Web site and site management; working with text, images, links, tables, frames, CSS, DHTML, behaviors, timeline animation, and plug-ins; customizing and automating tasks; working with HTML; and the new features of version 3.




Rating: - Dreamweaver makes coding easy
I work with coding for the web at work using HomeSite which is certainly a big step up from WordPad, but Dreamweaver has made my job fun and easy. I love the Visual Quickstart books because they allow me to pick and choose what I want to do in the book, and learn what I need when I need it. Each subject is a one or two page standalone. In the typical computer book, the user is forced to read through a complete chapter to learn how to do something. Granted, this gives the reader a more thorough ... Read More

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Rating: - Standard Peachpit ease of use, but you don't need this book
You can learn this much Dreamweaver from the manual and playing aroud with it for a while. If you need a simple reference manual, go ahead and get this. But if you want to learn Dreamweaver as a regular user, invest in a better book.

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Rating: - Does a satisfactory-but not outstanding-job
This book does what you expect--teaches Dreamweaver without a having to slog through thick, dense manual, but is lacking in some areas. The instructions aren't always clear, and there are typos/mistakes. It helps a lot if you already know HTML and other desktop publishing/layout programs already. If I had to pick again, I'd probably look for something else first, but buy this one if I couldn't find another guide which is supposed to teach you fast.

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Rating: - Disorganized
A more useless book I have never encountered. In order to perform the simplest task such as changing menu appearance the author takes you from chapter to another, instead of having the information organized within the chapter. I would recommend Dreamweaver 4:Essential Skills and Drills by Iconlogic instead.

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Rating: - Quickstart My Heart!!
This is a decent referance book but by no means should be used as a training guide. In reality this book is no more than an extended manual. They claim that the easiest way to learn is by looking at their photos but the truth is that there is no better training than actually getting on the computer and doing. For beginners I would say skip this book and head directly to Hands On Training with Dreamweaver 3, possibly one of the best learning tools for Dreamweaver 3 around.

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