Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual
by David Sawyer McFarland
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Book Reviews of Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual
Book Review: It's well named!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought a lot of "manuals" for Dreamweaver CS3. Dreamweaver CS3 The Missing Manual was the best. It starts with directions on how to build a simple website, then goes on to tell you how to make a more complex website. Right from the beginning you are building websites, unlike some of the manuals that launch into descriptions of how the program is better than other programs, blah blah blah. (Nice but if you already have Dreamweaver, who cares). Part of what makes it good is that there is an online site where you do tutorials. That means you don't have to download lessons on your computer and you can pick and choose what lessons you want or need. This book has a lot of information arranged in a really usable way. It gets five stars from me.Book Review: Dreamweaver CS3- Finally has a real book,
Summary: 5 Stars
I painful dug thru many of the "well respected" writing out there and none of them measure up to the clean and clearly well thought out to Dreamweaver CS3 The Missing manual by David McFarland .
I recently moved from Front Page over to Dreamweaver CS3 and was looking for the one book to use and have found it after a long and sometimes a painful search.
I had originally purchased Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Classroom in a Book based on the excellent verion of Photoshop by the same group. Yet the version that David wrote is far cleaner and it what I alway recommend to friends an colleges about " the right stuff" You just earned 5 stars from me, and I told hand those out very often...
Keep up the awesome work David !
Book Review: Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual
Summary: 5 Stars
I like the Missing Manual series over other popular help series in the way they don't use as much empty space as filler. This book is wall to wall information on helping the novice (me) understand how DW CS3 works, but it also has advanced chapters that I might have needed if I wasn't building such a simple website. This was my second Missing Manual after having received the first on another topic for a Christmas gift. I will look for everything in this series from now on when I need a hand. I highly recommend it. It is written so it is clear to both the novice and intermediate users. However, I imagine an advanced CS3 user would not learn much, beyond the occasional, "Wow, I didn't know CS3 could do that...".Book Review: An Average Book
Summary: 3 Stars
This is an average book. The description is lengthy but the information is all over the place, making it difficult to reference. The steps to create a web page are presented in two ways: first a vague description of the steps are presented and after that, a tutorial at the back of each chapter is given. Thus, the steps are presented twice. This explains the thickness of this book.
A topic which is not covered in other books is the use of PHP in Dreamweaver. This book describes how to set up an online catalog using Dreamweaver but it stops short of creating an interface which takes in orders in a shopping cart, a powerful feature in PHP/SQL. Thus, this book is just an average book.
Book Review: Not for the faint hearted!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are learning web-paging from scratch, set aside at least three months for intensive study and practice in which to become capable of applying it to your purposes. This is a five-course dinner you are sitting down to. It's title, Dreamweaver, is well earned, but it won't do your weaving for you -- put real effort into learning how to use it and be patient over the learning period. You'll be glad you did! I'm half-way into my three months' and gratified to have grasped the essentials and to have done my first trial web page with it. It weaves your creativity into the woof. This manual is the key to learning how to use Dreamweaver --use it, don't just read it. --WTB