Dreamweaver 3 Hands-on-Training (2nd Edition)
by Garo Green, Lynda Weinman

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Book Review: The Book is Great, The CD has minor problems -1 star
Summary: 4 Stars

I found the book excellent, wonderful, insightful and discovered I didn't need the "ourrooms_p.gif" file at all, there was just a nasty hole in the lessions where the file should be. The lessions were well planned and layed out. I went from page 1 to page 221 before I before I put the book aside. This morning while going through my email I received a note from Lynda.com/books about my problem with file "ourrooms_p.gif" explaining that lynda.com/books was a small company and did not offer tech support for my problem, and that I should bring the problem up in a discussion group on their web site, and the writer hoped that this reply helped,(someone there is one fry short of a happy meal) to which I replied, "huh, what's there to discuss? The file is bad on the cd, short sweet and to the point, replace the file.

In their movies on the CD Lynda and Garo talk about another CD they produced for DreamWeaver 3.0, hummm? do I order it, or not?

Summary of Dreamweaver 3 Hands-on-Training (2nd Edition)

This thoroughly updated version of the bestselling original includes an all-new chapter on plug-ins and how to use them, plus coverage of the expanded objects palette and the new HTML styles palette. Structured as a series of exercises that explore Web design, site structure, frames and tables, Cascading Style Sheets, and more, the book also gives you Lynda's expert tips, warnings, and background information about her techniques. An accompanying CD-ROM includes source files for the exercises, as well as QuickTime movies of key concepts.

The book is a great jumping-off guide for users new to Dreamweaver. Authors Lynda Weinman and Garo Green skillfully weave hands-on exercises into general topical introductions. This means you'll learn right away about subjects like layers, for example; and, as you go, you'll find out about relevant browser compatibility issues. Its style makes the book both fast-paced and engaging--it won't bore you with what markup languages are, and the various flavors of HTML.

The accompanying CD-ROM is key. In addition to trial versions of Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Netscape, and Microsoft browsers, plus a few crucial plug-ins, it contains example files organized by book chapter. Fortunately, the exercises move along quickly, demonstrating various techniques for performing operations. In one chapter, for example, you might be asked to open Web pages individually into the program, while in another you'll be shown how to attach a "site" to the folder that contains the files and work from there.

Dreamweaver is a fun program with which to work, and this tutorial is right on the mark. Even if you're just finding your Web legs in site design and want to give Dreamweaver a whirl, this book is worth purchasing. --Stephen W. Plain

Topics covered:

• Site control
• Linking
• HTML source
• Typography
• Layers
• Margins
• Tables
• Cascading style sheets (CSS)
• Templates
• Libraries
• Frames
• Rollovers
• Automation
• Forms
• Dynamic HTML (DHTML)
• Behaviors
• Commands
• Plug-ins
• Site publishing

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• Web Development > Web Design > Dreamweaver