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Dreamweaver MX 2004 Savvy(tm) Review by Barbara Rhoades
Learning More about Dreamweaver
DW MX 2004 Savvy is not a quick read book. You will spend days getting all the information that it contains. And, if you really want to know everything it contains, even weeks! It is not written more like a college textbook than a true tutorial. That said there is a ton of information a web designer can learn from DW MX 2004. Fat pipes CCS (Cascading Style Sheets) in detail, expanded tables, tracing image and testing links are only a few of the subjects you will learn about when reading this book. There are even whole chapters dedicated to such things as E-Commerce Sites, hand coding and creating dynamic pages, as well as PHP and XML.
A CD is included with this text and has several sections. The Bonus Chapter on the CD covers optimizing, slicing and exporting images with Fireworks, Photoshop and Illustrator. This is a nice extra but has nothing to do with the title itself. The Software section contains BNBBook - a guest book program; Contribute 2; Director MX 2004; Dreamweaver MX 2004; Fireworks MX 2004; Flash MX 2004; JRun 4: and TopStyle Pro 3.1. There are four browsers available, IE, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape and Opera and eight extensions to add to your DW program to help you create web sites with more ease.
Last but not least there are the files to go with the activities in each chapter so you can follow along with what is being discussed. I would suggest once you have read through the book that you sit down at your computer and try out some of the things the book talks about. If you have the time to delve into Dreamweaver, this book will give you a good grasp of what the program contains. Who knows, you may learn one or two things you didn't know DW could do!