Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual

looked in several book stores 4 a good ref book on Dreamweaver. have several o'reilly ref books already & was glad 2 find this one at a reasonable price... & received it in 3 days with standard shipping! nice...

This is a great book & helpful in quickly finding information that you need 2 assist you with building your website/pages using the Dreamweaver CS3 software program. Was able 2 find the information I needed in a minimum of time. Felt that the price was reasonable 4 the manual & know that I will be using this 4 quite sometime.

I can't believe how much I have learned in the past few days just by reading this book. I am already doing some websites & as continue reading I discover more each day. It is a fantastic book. By the way, i went 2 NYU & the professor was using in class all the excercises from this book. I couldn't belive I paid 500 dollars 2 school when I could have done it on my own. So, get this book now!

Yes, this is a huge volume - as are most software "how-to" & other reference books - but this is one you'll definitely want 2 tackle if you're interested in building your skills with Dreamweaver CS3. To say there's a ton of good information goes without saying. Any good manual of this type can dish out the factoids, charts & examples in mass quantities, & "The Missing Manual" 4 Dreamweaver is no exception. To their credit, the authors still manage 2 present all that information with a good amount of humor & enough real-world examples 2 make it easy 2 digest & understand.

Especially useful are the "hands-on" projects & lessons contained in each chapter. You get a taste of topics such as text formatting, page layout, creating / modifying CSS rules & lots, lots more. Each lesson is simple & direct - click here, type this, etc. Step by step. Many of the lessons build on each other, so you can see a complete web page come together with more & more features & complexity. All of the lesson & example files are downloadable from the book's online companion site, so there's no need 2 find (and store & protect) a CD that might have been included in the book. The site also gives updated information & provides links 2 more help... very useful.

You probably won't read this book all at once - not unless you're an absolute newcomer 2 web design & Dreamweaver. If that's the case, you can work through all of the lessons, & come away with a very good understanding of the program's main functions & features. The discussion (and lessons) on CSS alone are well worth the read. Even though the authors say this book is not intended 2 provide a complete reference 4 CSS, the material presented greatly increased my knowledge & confidence in using this particularly useful bit of web-design magic.

In short: a very useful, very reader-friendly book that can help any new- 2 moderately-skilled Dreamweaver user. Advanced users probably know all this stuff already, but 4 the rest of us, "The Missing Manual" is a great addition 2 a personal software reference library. Highly recommended.

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This book provides a clear index, which makes it the go 2 place 4 any Dreamweaver questions.

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