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| Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Classroom in a Book | 
| Author: Adobe Creative Team
Publisher: Adobe Press
Category: Book
List Price: $54.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (4 reviews)
Sales Rank: 4044
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1 Pap/Cdr
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0321573811
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.786
EAN: 9780321573810
ASIN: 0321573811
Publication Date: November 13, 2008
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Product Description
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Classroom in a Book contains 11 lessons. The book covers the basics of learning Adobe Dreamweaver and provides countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.
Learn how to create and manage web sites, build rich interactive interfaces, incorporate graphics, text, and video, and use Photoshop Smart Objects.
?The Classroom in a Book series is by far the best training material on the market. Everything you need to master the software is included: clear explanations of each lesson, step-by-step instructions, and the project files for the students.? ?Barbara Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor, Rocky Mountain Training
Classroom in a Book, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does?an official training series from Adobe Systems incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
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 Assumes too much knowledge for begginer January 6, 2009
I have a background in design for print and thought it was time to venture out and learn web design. I purchased Dreamweaver CS4 and was ready to go! I excitedly opened this book, anticipating some great revelation to the secrets of Dreamweaver CS4, CSS and HTML. I am very disappointed. I can easily follow along the book and click the buttons requested. But there is little or no explanation as to why. If you are looking for a book to tell you to "click here, change this, click OK" then you have it. If you want a book that tells you why you are doing each step, or a book that explains CSS or HTML this is not it! Look elsewhere.
Quick way to learn how to use the new features January 5, 2009
I have used Dreamweaver a LOT since version 3, and I always love to have the newest version. For the last few releases, Adobe/Macromedia have worked hard to keep a consistent UI, so it has been necessary to find out what is new and how to best use it from some other source. I prefer books to online tutorials, as I look at the screen too many hours a day already, and find reading to be relaxing.
I use Dreamweaver exclusively in the code view, and love the code completion and find and replace features. This book helped me find out about the new split code feature, which allows you to see different parts of the same file simultaneously, a feature I have always been jealous of Emacs and Vim users for. This version also incorporates Subversion, which is a HUGE improvement (sadly, version control is not covered in this book). Previously you would have to use Eclipse if you wanted source control in your editor.
I particularly liked the Spry coverage. I prefer jQuery, but Spry is great for someone sticking to the design view of Dreamweaver who wants to add modern js to their screens. I also liked the Photoshop Smart Objects coverage, and the fact that all the layouts they cover are CSS based, even the forms.
As usual in a cover-it-all intro book, I have some issues, such as the authors not pushing you to use the title attribute in your links, but all in all, I think this is a really useful book that can appeal to many different level Dreamweaver users. At 270 pages it is nice and thin too - a quick read.
Good book if you already are familar with the program December 27, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is one of those books that can be very useful for some readers and over the heads of others. I had a little (very little) knowledge of HTML, nothing of CSS and some experience with amateur-level web design programs when I got this book.
While the lessons were well-planned and informative, they did not feature the depth of information that a beginner like me needed. I learned features and techniques but not what made them work. Also, many of the more basic program features are vaguely mentioned in passing. Other information was simply over my head as a newcomer to the program.
I can see that this book would be extremely valuable to someone who has used Dreamweaver before and wants to get up to date on the latest changes in the program. I think that someone with HTML and CSS experience under his or her belt could also get a lot of good information.
As for me, I bought Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML and Dreamweaver CS4 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)). The former filled some gaps in my coding knowledge and the latter provided a rather thorough tour through the program designed with the newbie in mind. (It should be noted that knowing how to code is not essential for using Dreamweaver but it sure makes things easier.) Once I finish these titles, I will probably return to Classroom in a Book.
This title is good for: People with HTML and CSS experience or with Dreamweaver experience.
This title is not good for: Complete newcomers to web design. Try one of the books listed above instead.
helps maintain a website December 8, 2008
3 out of 19 found this review helpful
A little strange that this important release from Adobe hasn't been reviewed yet, so I'll see what I can do...
CS4 is the current major revision to Adobe's main software suite, and this book focuses on the Dreamweaver component. It's all about building and maintaining a commercial quality website. In simple terms, the book shows that Dreamweaver can be imagined as a very user friendly front end to a complex collection of HTML web pages that constitute your website.
To a large extent, Dreamweaver lets you avoid as much as possible the writing of low level HTML code. You can design a consistent layout and look for the website. Then Dreamweaver will help make the CSS files that enforce this consistency. Plus of course the HTML files that have the actual content to be shown. You can certainly edit actual HTML in Dreamweaver, and there probably will be times when this is needed.
What is just as important as the look of the pages is the interweaving between them using hyperlinks. As well as links that point offsite. Very easy to get tangled up if you have a big set of pages, linked up in some ad hoc manner. At the very lowest level, the manual typing of links is quite error prone, leading to dead links. Dreamweaver has nice ways to add valid links between your pages. Quicker and more robust.
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