Learn by doing! The lessons in this book guide you step-by-step through the creation of a project Web site, “Yoga Sangha.” With Macromedia's official guide, you’ll learn how to use the leading, best-selling Web editor and gain a thorough understanding of how you can use Dreamweaver 8 to effectively manage and maintain Web sites, develop sites that are accessible to a wide audience, and work in an environment that integrates visual and code editing. As you complete the tasks, you’ll develop the skills and techniques that you need to create Web sites on your own. In addition to the basics of creating a Web page that incorporates text, graphics and tables, you'll learn about all that's new in Dreamweaver 8: visual authoring with XML data, advanced CSS support including a unified CSS panel and a style rendering toolbar, integration with the latest Web technologies and standards, and more. The companion CD-ROM contains all of the lesson files as well as a free trial version of Dreamweaver 8.

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 16 Ratings

A good book to have... - 2007-05-29
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As a newbie in web publishing (I've been in print for 16 years) I have yet to find a book or forum that is 100% beneficial. The forums are mediated by experienced web designers who speak their language and not the language of the beginner. Somewhere, someone (and I'd be glad to do it with proper backing) needs to write a book that says, 'Want to do (one simple function)? Use these commands. NEXT...' That would have saved me months of grief.

So I bought books and slogged through tutorials until I gleaned enough of what I wanted in order to design my pages. Tutorials NEVER cover exactly what YOU want to learn, so they can drag on forever.

As for this book, I thumbed through it at my local Borders and saw that it had a few interesting tips that I might employ in future pages. I buy books such as this even if there is only ONE tip I need, and it's worth it, even at the price some of these titles command (this also justifies Amazon Prime, by the way).

The book is from Macromedia which is a plus because you are learning the program from the company that created it. The bottom line is this: When learning this stuff, you need a reference library to depend on, and this book is a key player. Forums are great as long as the mediators are online late on a Sunday night when you're struggling to learn a new technique. Buy this book, buy lots of books and EXPERIMENT as you go...that's the best way to learn.

Awesome - 2007-10-29
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I'll keep this short and sweet:
This book taught me all I needed to know about Dreamweaver in order to create a couple nice websites. If you're a beginner with no previous Dreamweaver (or any other website builder software) like I was then you'll have no problem reading this well written book. After a few chapters and following along with the tutorial you really will be able to create simple websites. Keep reading and you'll master all the aspects of modern day website building. Hands down this is one of the best learning books I've read in a long time and the tutorial is great.

Fantastic training tool . . . even out of college.... - 2009-09-22
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This text was actually recommended by my professor at the college I previously attended to meet the request of my current employer to utilize an application he had purchased for our office. Although my previous college training was in DreamWeaver MX 2004, I found this text to be the perfect 'updater' for the current software program available for website design and updating. Each lesson is simply explained, done in a step-by-step process and integrates various skills (updating, editing, links, etc...) for effective webpage maintenance. I would recommmend this text to the laymen and to the employed worker looking to continue to update their skills for job advancement. This particular publication is utilized at many community colleges integrated with the use of blackboard, and provides great context for online instruction.

A little confusing - 2007-12-14
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The lesson files really did come very helpful except for the instructions in the book - I find it somewhat confusing.

dreamweaver 8 - 2007-09-11
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This is a really excellent book for learning dreaweaver software the main software for web design

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