Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team
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Book Reviews of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Classroom in a Book
Book Review: ADOBE DREAMWEAVER CLASSROOM IN A BOOK HARD TO USE
Summary: 2 Stars
After working with Dreamweaver and this book extensively I have come to the conclusion that it must have been written by someone in India to save money. It lacks the proper descriptions and illustrations that are critical to learning from it, parts and points are missing in the lessons that make it very difficult to use and in chapter 9 entitled " Working With Spry " there is a bug in the software making the lesson impossible to finish ! You can (and I did) learn from it but it's torture. Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Revealed by Sherry Bishop is way better.Book Review: For Beginners Only
Summary: 2 Stars
This book only scratches the surface of Dreamweaver. It's the type of introductory book only a complete novice would find valuable.
If you already have some experience with Dreamweaver, there are much better books out there that cover more advanced concepts (that I think should have been included in this book!)
Book Review: Adobe needs to go back to school.
Summary: 1 Stars
I recently purchased this book in hopes that the Adobe tutorial books would be on the same par as Apple's are for their Video and Audio editing software. Both have DVDs with project files that accompany their lessons. However, by the end of Chapter 1 I noticed a big different between the two.
Do you remember way back in school how there were teachers who could tell you not just that something is the way it is but WHY it is that way, HOW it came to be that way, and most importantly HOW IT CAN BE APPLIED in different situations? Yeah - that's how the Apple Pro Training Series books are and what I expected Adobe's to be.
But I was sorely wrong. Adobe's Dreamweaver CS3 Classroom in a book is not only ripe with grammatical and spelling errors that a fifth grader would find, but it doesn't TEACH. As another reviewer said, this book tells you to do something and doesn't tell you WHAT you're doing, WHY you're doing it, or HOW it can be applied in different situations. It's that teacher who used to make you memorize a bunch of stuff without giving you the context for it. Not only does that make it harder to remember the tasks and apparent "goals" in each lesson, but their solutions are completely inaccessible.
For a beginner, this book just doesn't cut it. What a waste of money. Adobe needs to go back to school and remember what it was like to be a freshman again.
Book Review: Save your money on this one please.
Summary: 1 Stars
I am a graphic designer and have my own business. I did design web pages quite some time ago and abandoned it because of the need to handwrite code and recheck it. I wanted to resume once programs became a little more user-friendly like Dreamweaver.
My first mistake was trusting that because this book had the Adobe name on it, it would be good. My second mistake was not reading the reviews on here prior to buying it at a book store.
My disappointment of the book and the $50 I am now out of were overwhelming. The worst part is since you open the CD part, it makes the book non-returnable and you must sell used. Otherwise I would have returned it after the first chapter.
In addition to the mistakes that are mentioned, the assumption is made throughout that book that you know specific terminology pertaining to the program [i.e. They will refer to an inspector palette, but you are on your own for several minutes trying to locate that and will often need to go into the help window for assistance].
Save yourself the money and go through the tutuorial that came with the program and use the help window. In my opinion, they should include this with the software you purchase for free. I ended up investing in the Sue Jenkins Dreamweavers for Designers DVD and am delighted with it.
Book Review: The WORST learning book ever.
Summary: 1 Stars
I feel the need to warn people about this book before they throw money away and most importantly before they decide to give up learning dreamweaver forever. To set the record straight, I am no fool, I am an electronics engineer and I am constantly studying highly technical advances in my career. This book is the worst I have ever come across. It is so full of mistakes that it is impossible to figure out properly. I kept finding myself looking up data in "other" books to figure out what the author was trying to say. Some of the exercises were so far off that it appears the author was on medication or something. I got to a third of the way and finally threw in the towel; I just could not bear another word. I have bought the whole series of the classroom in a book. The first two I read had mistakes but it was bearable but this last book finally put me off totally ever reading another book from the "so called experts" of that company. It's actually a crime to get money for a product that is totally unusable. The word classroom should also be indicative of teacher / student, nothing is explained, it is assumed that the reader automatically knows new terms and abbreviations. The author is totally detached from the reader. I downloaded the errata sheet but that matched the book exactly... Atrocious!
Marc Chelin