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Dreamweaver 4 Weekend Crash Course
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Author: Wendy Peck
List Price: $24.99
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ISBN: 0764535757
Publisher: Hungry Minds, Inc (2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 196,987
Average Customer Rating: 3.13 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
First class primer for Dreamweaver 4
This book is a first class primer for all those wanting to create a website using this sophisticated application - both novices and more experienced users alike. The book does exactly what its blurb says it will. If you invest the time and effort to go through the programme of 30 sessions in the order presented by the author you will not be disappointed by your end results. The text is written in a clear, non-technical style and the two example sites that you work on during the 'weekend' really promote learning by doing. The book also contains plenty of excellent references to further sources of information if you want to follow up on the topics covered. In short, go buy it!
Rating: 2 out of 5
Good information, but...many errors
There is a lot of useful information in this book. It is obvious that Ms. Peck knows what she is talking about, has used Dreamweaver and is speaking from experience. Unfortunately, there are many errors in the tutorial exercises that are presented in the book. This makes them very frustrating to do and defeats their purpose. In addition, there needs to be more realistic projects/examples to demonstrate the concepts nd principles. Because of the many errors, I would not buy a book from her again.
Rating: 4 out of 5
It lived up to it's title...
New to DW, I made it thru this book over a period of about four weeks or so, working between other responsibilities. The writing style is conversational throughout and the lesson progression is logical in terms of tasks and building concepts. The typographical errors didn't really throw me off. At some points the conversational approach seems to have misled me, and I had to read, reread...and some places had to complete sessions twice for things to work properly. Some of this may have been my own fault, but I think the steps could be more technically detailed in some ways. Overall, the book is comprehensive in covering the basics and the not-so-basics. Having gone through the end of the book now, I give it 4 stars because it lived up to it's title...I am comfortable enough with DW program and am moving with it on to Fireworks, CSS, and putting it all together.
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