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Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Demystified
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Author: Laura Gutman
List Price: $45.00
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ISBN: 0735713847
Publisher: Macromedia Press (03 November, 2003)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 22,619
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
This is the book
Even though I started with Dreamweaver 2, I didn't fully understand the program until I read "Inside Dreamweaver 4." This is the MX 2004 version, and it is the best single resource I have found on Dreamweaver. I find all Macromedia Press books excellent, but this one is outstanding.
Rating: 4 out of 5
A good resource.
Dreamweaver MX 2004 Demystified is an excellent resource for web developers who use DWMX 2004, but probably shouldn't be your first choice if you're looking to make full use of the tool with ColdFusion. The writing is fresh and easy to read, written in a conversational tone that makes reading and understanding topics easy. The book is chock full of useful screenshots with clear labels, showing exactly what the text is talking about. There are plenty of useful tables and illustrations, making the overall quality of the book stand out.As a ColdFusion developer, however, the book seriously falls short. To be fair, the book isn't intended to be a Coldfusion reference, but there are some serious flaws in the chapter on integration with ColdFusion that could have been avoided if the author and technical editors actually knew ColdFusion. Rather than talk about how to write ColdFusion code, the chapter should have been written with a focus purely on integration with a ColdFusion server. Instead I felt like it tried to fill space by explaining things about ColdFusion that quite frankly were completely incorrect. I'm not as experienced with other web application models like PHP and ASP, but I also felt as if I was rereading documentation, rather than learning something new. I felt as if those chapters were book thickeners, and would have given the book 5 stars had those chapters been more useful. I was pleased to find a chapter on integrating DWMX 2004 with version control systems - a topic that has been fresh on my mind lately as I consider using Dreamweaver MX 2004 100% of the time. In short, the book is worth having for any serious web developer. I'm pretty confident that when I run into a problem with DWMX 2004, I'll be able to find an answer in Dreamweaver MX 2004 Demystified.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Not too basic, not too deep, but just right.
MX 2004 Demystified is that perfect book I've been wanting that takes what I already know (having taught myself and dabbled in Dreamweaver) and takes me deeper into the more sophisticated capabilities that Macromedia has come up with. But, Laura Gutman doesn't leave the beginner in the dust. She includes a standard intro chapter to explain the basics of web development and design then gently eases into more advanced topics. If you consider yourself advanced in the field, this book will also be a great asset because she explains more of Dreamweaver's functionality with dynamic pages, database interaction, etc. I would recommend this book to anyone on any level that wants to learn to use Dreamweaver as the amazing tool it is and develop high quality content rapidly.
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