Dreamweaver is not easy

As a long time designer, teacher and user of Adobe software such as Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Lightroom et al. and having some experience with html coding, I thought Dreamweaver 8 would be fairly intuitive and quick to grasp. I was quite wrong! So I bought two books--Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 in 24 hours and Dreamweaver 8 The Missing Manual. First, as you may be well aware, Dreamweaver was purchased from Macromedia and incorporated into the Adobe software line fairly recently. Adobe has incorporated some of the desktop look and feel of their other products into Dreamweaver 8 but the program is not that intuitive for a new user. The book, that is the subject of this review, helps some but is dense reading. It is set up as a series of one hour lessons and this format makes it hard to skip around and find out how to handle a specific problem you may wish to address. The Missing Manual book is somewhat more thorough (and almost 400 pages longer) in covering the intricacies of Dreamweaver but is no less dense. If you are looking for a "How do I design a web page?" book, you may find these books overly technical and without many easy to understand screen shots. The screen shots in Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 in 24 hours are all B&W (same in The Missing Manual) and the details are small. Both are books better suited for fairly advanced users.

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