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Dreamweaver 4 The Missing Manual

This is the first of the Missing Manual series I've reviewed and found it chock full of valuable information. The part I liked best are the generous use of sidebars called "Up to Speed" to help the beginner-beginner. Then there are "Workaround Workshops" and "Power Users Clinic" for the more advanced tips. There are also "Frequently Asked Questions", "Infrequently Asked Questions", "Gem in the Rough", "Extension Alert" and "Easter Egg Hunt".
     Even seemingly inconsequential items such as Figure captions are very detailed, they explain exactly what is being demonstrated. This is great for the reader in a hurry - read the pictures.
     All the Dreamweaver features are discussed with step-by-step instructions. The primary focus of the Dreamweaver 4, Missing Manual is geared toward the advanced-beginner to the intermediate user. The "Up to Speed" sidebars provide introductory information for certain topics. For the more advanced user there are sidebars called "Power Users Clinic" with more technical tips, tricks and shortcuts.

There are 5 major parts, which are:

Part 1 Building a Web Page (basics, text, image, links etc.)

Part 2 Building a Better Web Page (tables, layers, CSS and frames)

Part 3 Bringing Your Pages to Life (forms, animations, multimedia)

Part 4 Building a Web Site (site management, testing and moving to a server)

Part 5 Dreamweaver Power (libraries, templates, history panel, and extensions)

 

At the Missing Manual website you can get a free bonus appendix which is a menu-by-menu explanation of the Dreamweaver 4 commands for both Windows and Macintosh. The website also contains graphics and half-completed web pages that you can use when you encounter a tutorial which uses, "Living Examples".
      I would highly recommend this book for any serious Web developer who wants to expand their Dreamweaver skills, or to anyone coming from another HTML editor who wants to get up to speed quickly with Dreamweaver. This is not a "learn Dreamweaver quickly" book, but a learning resource of great value.

Joyce Evans

Dreamweaver 4 The Missing Manual
by David Sawyer Mc Farland
O'Reilly 516 Pages

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