the ideal book for dreamweaver

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	• Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Demystified Laura Gutman Macromedia Press, 2003 - 1272 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

the ideal book for dreamweaver

When I first decided to teach myself web design, I began with Dreamweaver for Dummies, which only took me so far. Then I tried to work with several other Dreamweaver guides, all of which were too complex for a newbie or too disorderly and unclear. When I finally got to Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Demystified, I was relieved and elated all at once. Finally a book that made learning CSS style sheets a snap. Perhaps most importantly, it took the time to explain each element of creating a style sheet in detail while other books just gloss over them saying they are self-evident. In general, that's what makes this book great. There is no topic left uncovered.

Now that I've got the skills down, I use Gutman's book as a quick reference guide on a monthly basis.

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This is the book

Even though I started with Dreamweaver 2, I didn't fully understand the program until I read "Inside Dreamweaver 4." This is the MX 2004 version, and it is the best single resource I have found on Dreamweaver. I find all Macromedia Press books excellent, but this one is outstanding.

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Great book, very comprehensive

I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to eventually get into depth on Dreamweaver. The book is rated as "Intermediate/Advanced" level on the cover, but it's a book a novice to Dreamweaver can easily understand. The book goes well beyond just the very basics of using Dreamweaver however. For example there is a section on the coding syntax for Dreamweaver templates. Overall I found it to be very clear, well-organized and easy to follow, and enjoyable, and I am really glad I bought it.

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Very Thorough

I normally use the visual quickstart guide for teaching but for unexplicable reasons, the VQS guide wasn't out when I needed to teach so I turned to demystified. I found it very easy to use and greatly appreciated the examples. I even tought myself a topic I've been meaning to learn for a couple of years. This book made it so easy, I'm not sure why I waited so long!

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As an experienced Dreamweaver developer, you don't need a guide to step you through every new Dreamweaver MX 2004 button and feature. Chances are, you'll be able to figure most of those out on your own. What you need--and this volume delivers--is an in-depth exploration of how you can leverage all of Dreamweaver's power to take your own Web development process to the next level. Moving beyond the explanations that are readily available in the product's documentation and the commonly available introductory guides, author Laura Gutman draws on her own extensive experience as a multimedia Web application developer to explore some of the software's more creative and complex uses--many of which involve features new to Dreamweaver MX 2004: editing files, manipulating databases, and changing code directly on remote FTP and network servers without first stetting up a Dreamweaver site; using CSS to improve your design procedures; and more. Easy-to-follow explanations, insightful exercises, render a complex topic painless.

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