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Dreamweaver 8 Design and Construction (O'Reilly Digital Studio)

Format: Paperback
Author: Marc Campbell
ReleaseDate: 01 January, 2006
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Rating:

Great for the money.


My only critique is that it seemed like we didn't even get to actually using Dreamweaver 8 until about page 100. This book takes you from web-site zero through building a basic client-side only web site using Dreamweaver 8. Before that was an intro to general web-site concepts and HTML.

Anyway, it's an attractive and informative book that is priced lower than most. .

Excellent Resource
This book is an excellent resource that conveys not only the "hows" of Dreamweaver, but the "whys" of building well-designed web sites. As someone who is new to Dreamweaver and web design, I have gone through several books. I find myself referring to it again and again as Campbell's opinions on design topics are pretty much right on. True, you won't learn how to use every single feature of the program in this book. But there are many other books that you can teach you how to use Dreamweaver. This book is, in my opinion, more utilitarian and approachable than the other pure method books. .

Excellent beginner guide to web design using Dreamweaver 8
They jump right into the details of all the features of the software and xhtml, css, etc. I have went through many Dreamweaver books and ended up more frustrated after reading them. I end up trying to memorize all the features and trying to determine if I need them for what I'm trying to accomplish.

This book starts from an idea->design->implementation->publish perspective. The author goes through the philosophy behind each step, then shows the features in Dreamweaver that will facilitate it. This book goes through the features of Dreamweaver that will facilitate the process flow. I need to know what I need to do and can then pick up another book for how to do it. There are details in the book that shows the steps to getting the important design process done. This book will save a lot of time for those that has an idea of what they want for their next web site but get bogged down on the technnical details of the software and other books.

p. s. The section on layers is clearly written. You'll be creating css compliant layout using Dreamweaver in no time.