Customer Reviews:
 Give it a miss December 31, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Having used Go Live 6 CIB previously I took a chance against the poor reviews CS3 has, and bought this book. It is not comphrehensive enough for the novice, or semi experienced user. I struggled to find basic information, if you want to design the sites they give on the CD this too has errors, nor are the fixes on the site they point you to, so all in all I am now going to try the non Adobe titles. I am not a professional web designer, so needed help with the transistion from Go Live to Dreamweaver, this book is not the one. Somehow the book has not been thought through, it is short of content and detail, poorly indexed and concentrates too much on the samples on the CD not on how too apply and construct for your own site. Go Live CIB was 582 pages, this is 300, things haven't become that much easier!
I think if I knew more then perhaps I could find the answers, but then also, I feel I wouldn't need this book!
Very very very basic July 16, 2007
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
If you are absolutely new to Dreamweaver then this would be ok. It gives you a reasonable overview from which you could then experiment on your own. If you prefer to be spoonfed up to an intermediate level then it's not for you. I would have expected a lot more on the Ajax/Spry additions. The finished example for this chapter does not work properly in IE7 which is very shoddy.
Honey, who shrunk the Classroom in a Book? June 3, 2007
26 out of 28 found this review helpful
I was in a local bookstore and stumbled over a series which was usually quite useful to me as a design/media pro: The Classroom in a Book Series for CS3.
Because I got the CS3 Design Premium and worked with Freeway most of the time (and because a coop colleague works with Dreamweaver) I wanted to pick it up.
Luckily I flipped through it before I bought it.
It is not only shrunken in thickness, it was reduced to some (!) basics, some (!) details and some (!) references.
You may ask the following:
a) Will I be able to use Dreamweaver after reading it and worked through the tutorials? - Yes and no. Yes you might be able to use Dreamweaver but only in the way the tutorials work. Don't think you might get a grip of HTML, Java, PHP or AJAX in conjunction with Dreamweaver. This book is for starters only!
b) Is it as good as the really big and concise Classrooms of the past (esp. the ones for CS and CS2)? - No, it was shrunken in size and content. The old Macromedia Training Books were much more concise!
Okay, it is now fully colored and the binding is much better, but anyway: They are not a coffee table item - you have to get the grip of a soon-to-be-productive program!
Esp. because of my brilliant experiences with past issues of the Classrooms I can't recommend the new ones at all. They are too shallow for effective use.
Adobe stitched this with a VERY hot needle!
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