Dreamweaver 1.2 for Windows & Mac Visual Quick- Start Guide

by Tarin Towers and J. Tarin Towers

This guide covers Dreamweaver 1.2, the Web publishing tool from Macromedia. It uses pictures rather than lengthy explanations to help users get up and running quickly. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201353393
• ISBN13: 9780201353396
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Nice Overview and Explanations

I was very pleased with this book. For a low cost, it provides you with a comprehensive explanation of Dreamweaver's capabilities and how to achieve the effects you want. As the title suggests, you get excellent pictures to help explain the concepts.I found the book to be well organized. J. Tarin Towers avoids repetitiveness and babbling and gets right to the point. Once you complete the book, it acts as a nice reference to quickly look something up - should you forget.The book even teaches you some HTML as it goes along. So if you're unfamiliar with some HTML commands, you'll get help from the author so you'll know what is going on. However, I wouldn't rely simply on this book if you're completely new to HTML.My only complaint about this book is the online appendix. You are required to go to this book's complimentary website in order to get information on the following 3 things: The Image Map Editor, Roundtrip HTML, and Browser Compatibility. Why not just include them with the book? Some of those things seem odd to include in an appendix, too (e.g., include the image map section with the chapter on Working with Images). The whole website ordeal seemed suspicious to me.Despite the quirks with the appendices, I found this book to be quite informative. It goes through and explains Dreamweaver's functions successfully and quickly. Let's face it, you don't want to bore yourself reading a book 2 inches thick on how to use a fairly simple program. You want to quickly get through a no nonsense book and actually use the program. And for that, The Dreamweaver Visual Quickstart is what you need.

Like all Visual QuickStart books, EXCELLENT.

I read it cover to cover in less than 3 days. I went from knowing "0" about how to fully use DW to giving advice and tech support to co-workers. I even upgraded to DW 2.0 because I read a friend's QuickStart book for 2.0 and saw all the new features. Just about all of the VQS books are GOLD! The local university requires its Graphic Design students to buy them too :)

It's an excelent book for beginners

I work designing web sites, but I had to teach Dreamweaver. So, I used this book as a guideline for my course.

J.T.Towers made it so easy

I have gone through a lot of software books,but none that made learning a new software as easy as "Dreamweaver 1.2". This book explains everything in a clear and brief way without being boring. It was the first time that I have finished an entire book without frustration or confusion. If just all tutorials could be that simple, uncomplicated and yet bring such an amount of information across.

The only book you need to learn Dreamweaver 1-2.

This book is for anyone with little or no experience with Dreamweaver. The book takes you off slow with text work and by the end of the book you are working on Macromedia timelines. It's authors reveal all the powerful features of Dreamweaver 1.2 and gives them to you in a clean and clear format. This book show it all from tables to javascript. The whole book contains great information on how to make a web site better and also some great tips on editing the html in Dreamweaver. If you are new to Dreamweaver and want a book that will show you the great possiblities with Dreamweaver-then this book is for you!