Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Hands-On Training

I found this book 2 be very good in content especially 4 a beginner in Dreamweaver. The only drawback is that the book itself is not bound well. It literally fell apart very quickly after I received it with multiple groups of pages breaking away from the binding! I'm going 2 have 2 hole punch the pages & put them into a ring binder.

I bought this book 2 teach myself Dreamweaver & it did a pretty good job. It comes with a CD that has projects 2 work on as well as video tutorials 2 supplement the book. The author is pretty thorough in his explanations. The beginning two chapters may seem boring at first but in the end you realize they are quite informative & the information is necessary as a background before any real work can be executed correctly. This book covers everything from opening Dreamweaver 4 the first time 2 publishing your web page. Another great book 4 getting started is Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Revealed... I felt I should have read that one before this one because that one is a little more basic 4 when you are teaching yourself.

Dreamweaver 8 is a good product & fun 2 play with & learn.
Tons of tutorials online & in books.

Purchased 4 a college web design course, the first thing I noticed about this book is how poorly bound it is. As the previous reviewer also found, large sections of the book came loose within days, & I am very careful with books. The binding glue has completely failed, making the book difficult 2 use, & 4 a $53 (retail) textbook, that's a disgrace.

The content is okay, but I found a number of errors, actual mistakes in the exercises, which you do after copying the files on the enclosed CD 2 your machine. Some procedures were not in sequence, some DW functions no longer exist or are not where the authors say they are, background colors come out wrong despite following the instructions, etc. Expect 2 find anywhere from 1-4 errors per chapter, depending on how carefully you follow the exercises. The book uses a hypothetical website about "TeaCloud Teas" in every chapter, & it gets a bit tedious after a while. It could also use some independent exercises that do not revolve around the tea vendor website.

That said, you CAN learn a lot from this book, but you may have moments of frustration followed by anger at being slightly misled. There are better Dreamweaver learning tools out there. And probably some better glue...

The book material itself is fantastic & unbelievably easy 2 follow & understand. The craftmanship, if you will, of the book sucks. It literally started falling apart at the binding within 2 days of receiving it. I am not rough on the book by any means & do not transport it. It stays on my desk & I use it during my lunch hour. It has fallen apart & I have 2 keep a huge binder clip on it 2 keep all the pages intact.

Do you like 2 learn by doing? Do manuals leave you bored & craving real-world examples? Do you want concrete training that goes beyond theory & reference materials? If so, this book is 4 you.

These hands-on exercises, complete with insider tips & detailed illustrations, teach you the latest techniques 4 designing Web sites with Dreamweaver 8. You’ll learn 2 define a Web site; layout pages effectively with Cascading Style sheets; use tables; create rollovers; work with templates, media objects, & forms; & design 4 mobile devices. You’ll also learn how 2 use the new features in Dreamweaver 8, including the new Unified CSS Panel, the Style Rendering Toolbar, the Code Toolbar, guides, CSS Layout visualization, Zoom, & Code Collapse. Accompanied by a CD-ROM loaded with classroom-proven exercises & QuickTime training videos, this book ensures you'll master the key features of Dreamweaver 8 in no time.