Dynamic Learning Dreamweaver CS3

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 416 pages
• Published by: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; Pap/Dvdr edition November 12, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0596510578
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0596510572
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.9 pounds

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.

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.

Reader Reviews
§ This book has a lot going for it as a classroom tool. The 13 lessons deal with the basics of using Dreamweaver, customizing it to the way you work, and touches on broad Web coding issues. So beginners, who most need those broader issues as context, will appreciate that something extra they need. The author does not go into much detail on any subject. Two of those "broad issues" I mentioned before were Cascading Style Sheets and using tables for layout. The book shows the importance of CSS to good design and introduced me to some CSS conveniences in Dreamweaver CS3 I was not aware of. One odd thing: the author warns against using tables for page layout (correct!) but then titles a chapter and video session "Creating Page Layouts with Tables." Yet, the content of the chapter had very little to do with using tables for layout. It stuck closely to some of Dreamweaver's best facilities for handling *data* tables, like the CSV import feature. Lousy title, good content. The book itself is done up in full color with illustrations tracking each lesson well. I sometimes felt the included videos were a bit padded and neither as valuable or as clear as the text. However, the detailed "zoom ins" were a nice touch and helped a lot. Since many of the screens in the video were chock full of objects, I had trouble following the author's actions in the clutter. It would have been better if his mouse cursor had been larger or a bright color to make that part easier. §