Visual Quickstart guides are great both for learning and reference
Visual Quickstart guides are great both for learning and reference
As a dreamweaver buff, I use this guide for reference pretty much, but it is great for both. I just bought more of this outstanding series.....
A Must Have Reference
I love these Visual QuickStart Guides. I have them for all the Adobe design software. I don't read them, just dip in and out when I need something. I'm swapping over from Go Live to Dreamweaver and this book is a must have reference because it shows where things are... where the properties are, the CSS details, etc. Love it.
Thorough and concise
This is the fourth book I've owned in the Quickstart series (all relating to Adobe design products or their predecessors) and find it to be an excellent series. Each book has been thorough and well-organized without being wordy. As for the negative reviews about this book: it's worth keeping in mind that no publisher is going to stake its reputation (and bottom line) on an incompetent author. Rather, books (and series) are written with a specific agenda. This book is meant to serve as a concise guide and reference manual and is not a tutorial: if you're looking for step-by-step exercises, look elsewhere.
Worst Self-Study Guide I've Ever Used
I've taught myself quite a lot of what I do from self-study books, and have never experienced such a frustrating mess as this book. I dutifully went through 3/4 of the book and know absolutlely nothing more about using CSS with Dreamweaver than I did before.
It skips over basic concepts, rehashes the obvious over and over, and makes huge leaps of faith from chapter to chapter. When you go from Chapter 5 to Chapter 6, you'll wonder what happened to the three chapters that should have been between them.
Additionally, the book boasts of a companion website and the ability to email questions to the authors. Well, their website is completely devoid of content, and they don't respond to email questions.
Don't buy this book. Buy ANYTHING else.
Agree with "utterly useless..."
I have to agree with the previous "utterly useless" review. This book is terrible. I am a complete novice at website design and Dreamweaver. This book does not teach you anything--it does not give you detailed instruction to the novice nor is it a reference book.
If you are a novice like me you will not learn anything from this book. I will be returning to the book store to look for another book. This book was a total waste of time.
This book is incredibly unorganized. For example, in the chapter on CSS this is what is says:
Chapter 5
Understanding CSS
Cascading Style Sheets are all about style, looks, and presentation. CSS properties and rules give you an amazing array of control over foregrounds, backgrounds, colors, fonts, positions, alignments, margins, borders, lists, and other aspects of presentations.
Appendix C contains a list of CSS properties. That list is amazing in its scope, but it can be a little overwhelming as well.
Appendix C!!!! This is the explanation of CSS. This book is pathetic. It gives no conceptual explanation of CSS or practical knowledge of how Dreamweaver utilizes it.
Save your money and buy something else.
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