Learning Dreamweaver CS3

Product Description

Dynamic Learning: Dreamweaver CS3 is like having access to a top-notch team of your very own instructors. Written by product experts and trainers who have produced many of Adobe's training titles, the book takes you step-by-step through the process of learning to use Dreamweaver X like a pro.

This full-color book is organized into lessons, with easy-to-follow instructions, tips, examples, and review questions at the end of every lesson. Each lesson is self-contained, so you can go through the entire book sequentially or just focus on individual lessons.

Topics covered include:

* What's new in Dreamweaver CS3
* Dreamweaver CS3 Jumpstart
* Creating web sites
* Styling pages with CSS
* Working with Snippets and library items
* Using tables and frames
* Adding Flash, video, and audio content

In addition, the book comes with a companion DVD with video tutorials and all of the files needed for the lessons, including final, completed Dreamweaver files. A free Instructor's Guide is available online.

Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #317538 in Books
* Published on: 2007-11-12
* Format: Illustrated
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 416 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author
The AGI Creative Team (Aquent Graphics Institute) is a highly experienced group of authors and instructors with a strong track record for developing and delivering best-of-breed books, video content, seminar series, and conferences.
Customer Reviews

Excellent book, make sure to get missing files from the web site5
This is a good book for beginners trying to get started with Dreamweaver CS3. I teach DW courses and have used this and the Lynda.com HOTS book both with success, but this book gives a more logical progression through the material. I notice the 1-star reviews both mention frustration with the missing/misnamed files on the disk - be sure to download the missing files from the O'Reilly web site. (examples.[...])

Great way to start creating web sites.5
Not fully understanding what I was getting into I offered to support a web site for a non profit organization that did not have the funds to pay for the service. Using this book as a textbook, I was quickly able to get up to speed and bring their web sit up to date. I have since been asked to develop a web site for a possible new business.

The book takes a step by step approach with each step explained. Possible errors or points of confusion are anticipated and clarified. Each lesson has well developed examples that can also serve as models for your web site. The book is in color so the book pictures match the screen displays. I scanned over the first chapter of what was new because it was all new to me. I followed the other lessons as one would a textbook using what was appropriate for my own site. I never encountered a step that wasn't possible and when finished with the lesson their examples were good templates for what I was doing.

This book does not cover the server side of the coding and I have started using another source to learn how to use PHP with Dreamweaver. However, I still refer to this book for ideas and found it to be an incredible frustration free way to learn how to create and update web sites.

Do not buy this book1
Files are missing on the dvd which comes with this book, making it very difficult to learn from it.
Take my advise not to buy this book