Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 [With CDROM]

by Daniel Short and Garo Green

Do you like to learn by doing? Do manuals leave you bored and craving real-world examples? Do you want concrete training that goes beyond theory and reference materials? If so, this book is for you.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321293894
• ISBN13: 9780321293893
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Length: 514 Pages
• Weight: 2.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Easy to follow along book and cd combo

I was taking an entry-level course on DW 8 at the community college and they listed this book as the required text book. I have no idea why, because the instructor never referred to it and just did his own thing. But I have learned more from the book on my own than I did from the class. Of special merit are the video tutorials that come on the cd. As you complete the exercises in each chapter, there is supplementary related material presented in video form on the cd. The only problem is that you learn to build the particular tea-selling website that is being built in the book. While 75% of the materials is either applicable or of possible interest, there is still this 25% gap of knowledge that leaves you stranded when you are faced with the prospect of staring at a blank project of your own and putting your own content in it. I may know how to insert the file that the author created from his folder to his page, but how do I create my own file to insert in my own page? [..] There is no substitute for hands-on experience, and I have obviously not been gifted with intuitive knowledge of web principles. I constantly manage to get myself into situations where what I do just plain doesn't work, but no book (or library of books) can prepare you for the challenges you will face trying to implement your own ideas in the real world. But this one comes fairly close.

Latest Software, Best Advice

Perfect for beginners, each step is explained thoroughly with many illustrations to assist the reader. Tremendous amount of information, easy for reader to move from beginner to highly proficient in Dreamweaver 8 program using this book.

Great book for starters

Before I picked up this book, I had no experience with dreamweaver whatsoever, and basic html skills (I can read html and know what it is. When flipping through the pages, I noticed that the pictures were in color! Not only that, the layout of the lessons made it easy and fun to read! This book taught me the basics with dreamweaver (how to make forms, website, and etc. efficiently) The only thing I "bad" about this book is that it is a short read; I bought it 2 days ago and I am almost finished, but its probably because the book is layed-out so well or most of it was easy to me. I would definately recommend it to anyone with no experience in dreamweaver.

Easily worth ten times as much!

I have some HTML experience (typing code manually, not using a program) but it has been several years since I needed to use it. When the need arose again, I purchased Dreamweaver, but I didn't know how to use it. Thanks to this training manual, I am well on my way! This manual starts in the beginning and assumes the reader knows very little or nothing about web design. That will make it incredibly easy for an extreme novice to learn. By far, the best part of this training is the hands-on approach. Most people don't truly learn how to do something unless they actually do it, so this is a perfect approach for something as complex as web design. There are a few things this book is not, so I'll list some. This is not a manual for advanced WYSIWYG web designers. This is not a book for JavaScript coding or any other advanced element. This is a wonderful book if you are just learning or not very proficient with Dreamweaver and want to learn more, but it would not be for advanced users. The CD comes complete with all files necessary to recreate sample web sites by following the written instructions in the book and videos on the CD. Years ago when I designed sites just with hand-typed HTML, I thought little of those who "cheated" and used programs to help them design. But now I see the difference! By using Dreamweaver, you can be a novice designer and still create a dazzling dynamic site in a fraction of the time that it would take an expert designer who hand-typed code! This book will get you well on your way! Highly recommended!

Great Book

After returing another book that I bought on the same subject; I love this book. The layout is 'hands on' and you learn by creating a fake business website that focuses on tea. Provides all of the resources for the fake site on a cd as well as video and practice files for each chapter. Anyway, I'm not even done with the book and the amount that I've learned is mind boggling. I'm a beginner to dreamweaver and the book does wonders. Of course you have to be familiar with windows though...that's a given.