Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Hands-On Training by Garrick Chow
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Book Reviews of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Hands-On Training
Book Review: Pretty good book!
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is comprehansive guide to adobe DreamWeaver. It uses easy to understand language and comes with a CD full of videos in case you get lost.
However after finishing it I realized that it doesn't really tell you how to create a site from the ground up.
It teaches you the tools and how to use them; but me, and my class, believe that it fails to truely teach you how to create a site from scratch.
Book Review: Solid training, not just basic
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm in school - this book was a textbook. I've used the Adobe Press ones, too basic and boring examples. I hardly read them and never again used them as a reference. This one I enjoy reading and do refer to. There is more information and I like the layout.Book Review: Solid learning in book form
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this book for an Intro to Dreamweaver CS3 type class and found this to be a throughly helpful text. Its examples were great, well thought out and easy to follow. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to start out learning Dreamweaver.Book Review: ugh! 3 stars
Summary: 3 Stars
this book is fine for learning the material, but it's weaknesses are sooo annoying that i had to detract 2 stars from my rating. here's why:
1/2 star deduction - this book gushes about dreamweaver. you enjoy his enthusiasm in the first 4 chapters. you're just rolling your eyes after that.
1/2 star deduction - this book gives you one way of doing things for windows, and in the same sentence the equivalent way of doing it for the mac.
1/2 star deduction - the book is so repetitive with its 'helpful' hints. for example, "you should still have the draft.html file from the previous exercise open. if not, complete exercise 3, and then return to this exercise".
1/2 star deduction - this book treats you like a 5 year old. he tells you to "remember" that you were styling text before (as in the directly preceding exercise), but you'll now be styling an image. DUH!
any one of these things isn't so bad in itself. but when he does ALL THESE THINGS ALL THE TIME THROUGHOUT THE BOOK NONSTOP, it gets VERY irritating! plus, these weaknesses made performing a tedious task (reading a TRAINING book) unnecessarily more tiresome!
like i said, you do end up learning dreamweaver. but i would venture to suggest that you could have done it in (dare i say it?) 1/2 the time.
Book Review: Not the most effective way to learn Dreamweaver
Summary: 3 Stars
My review is from my self-learning perspective versus using the book as a classroom text. Also, I have intermediate web development experience using Front Page. That said, I found this book to be a cumbersome and difficult learning aid, compared to video courses available. The book seemed to overly complicate using Dreamweaver, starting in Chapter 1 with a lengthy explanation of XHTML, which I found tedious and unnecessary. I found the vtc.com video course I took offered a much more practical approach to learning Dreamweaver than this book. The CD in the book is helpful but basically an adjunct to the book material.