With the release of Adobe Creative Suite CS3, Dreamweaver is now part of the world's leading suite of creative tools, making it the de facto tool of choice for anyone designing for the Web. Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide uses a combination of task-based instruction and strong visuals to teach beginning and intermediate users how to create, design, and publish powerful, innovative Web sites with Dreamweaver. Leading technology authors Tom Negrino and Dori Smith take readers step-by-step through the new features in Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, with all new chapters on building dynamic pages with Ajax and Spry, and designing for mobile devices. They also cover improvements to using styles and CSS in Dreamweaver, and the new Browser Compatibility Check in Dreamweaver CS3. Beginning users will learn to create their first Web site, add text, style and position page content, manage styles, work with links, incorporate images, media, tables, forms, and frames, design site navigation, and so much more. Experienced users will find this a convenient reference to the new features of Dreamweaver CS3. 

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A great guide that any user of Dreamweaver CS3 should have - 2008-07-12
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I am really quite surprised by those who are down on this quickstart book. I think it holds up just as well if not even better then some of the previous Dreamweaver books in the series.

The great thing about the book is that it works so well as a quick reference guide in which it was meant to be used as , amongst other uses that it will meet your needs for.

So if its just having to quickly do some basic tasks with the program like adding links, pictures or frames to a page it will quickly guide through that. But it will dive into the newer aspects of the program like Spry and CSS and teach it in an easy to use and understand manner.

I was a little rusty with the program, not having used Dreamweaver for a few years since I finished my college classes and I was able to jump right back into the program mostly due to this book. Almost any basic question I had it was easily answered mostly due to this book.

Its very informative and will explain clearly what every menu, option and set up situation does so you can get the most out of the Dreamweaver CS3 program.

As great as the book is, and it really is, there are some downsides to the book I do have to admit. One is its really just for the beginner to intermediate skilled person. So you won't be able to build a site like, say Amazon.com with this book. You will need a more advanced oriented book for that task. And you may even wish there was more to offer in the book then just the quick step by step process that guides you through each skill you are trying to learn at the given moment.

But for me, this fit the needs I had just fine . I won't use this program without this quickstart reference book at my side. I highly and greatly recommend this book to any who are using this program. Its ok to forget a few basic things every now and then, this book will easily give you that refreser you needed. Not to mention it will also teach you some ways to do things that you may not have realized you could, making your life that much easier.

Whether its template set ups, setting up the ftp for your site through Dreamweaver, how to fix broken links, checking browser compatibilities or anything else that you want to set up on your newly created page, this book will guide you to an easy and effective path to do so.

Its really the greatest purchase I have made book wise in a long time. Even if you are looking for something more advanced, this book is still must have. It also serves as a great compilation to other more advanced books when you just want to quickly look up something that you wanted to implement.

Bottom line, if you are using Dreamweaver CS3 and need a book to help you get through some of the more confusing elements and menus of it, look no further. You will want to have this book handy at all times and be glad that you have it there. Its saved me many a times from moments of confusion or question and its always lead me to finishing a site successfully.

Get this book. Even if you get others, this is one you don't want to be without.

Great beginning book for Dreamweaver CS3 - 2008-09-12
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This is the book for my advanced dreamweaver course. It's not a bad book however it is definitely a beginning book. I have already taken a beginning class with a different book and I feel that this book is a review. It's very easy to read and written well and not in a technical manner that's hard to understand. Great buy for anyone just starting out with Dreamweaver.

Please don't buy this book - 2008-09-16
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I bought this book to help me build a simple website for my smoothie business. I am totally new to Dreamweaver but had some experience in Front Page. I even read the Quickstart Guide to HTML, XHTML and CSS so I had a basic understanding of these codes. Despite that I have spent HOURS trying to fill the gaps that this author leaves out just to follow along with his "step by step" tutorial especially in the css layout section. The images he use for his figures dont even match from one step to the next, its like he's using different screens and examples to make the same point. I dont think the author understands that a huge part of a newbie learning is not just from reading, but from looking at the figures to see if what HE HAS matches what I HAVE. Half the time I was pulling my hair out because my screen was simply not matching his illustrations. I can honestly say I followed along word for word with a highlighter sometimes repeating the section 7 or 8 times word for word and was not getting the results that it showed in the book. Save your money and read back of a cereal box at least then you'll be learning something.

You know there's a problem when the book... - 2009-04-19
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...uses only Windows screen captures, yet the book is sold as Mac/Win compatible.

...shows screen captures of Dreamweaver preferences that are completely different from the Mac version's preferences.

...references "Dreamweaver 8"--a hold-over from the last time a section was updated.

...continually instructs users that CSS is a page layout and type markup tool instead of what 99% of what readers really want to use it for: to simply style type.

Unless you already know a lot about web pages...STAY AWAY! - 2008-07-28
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I am familiar with basic web design and basic HTML. I have used Dreamweaver to put together simple web pages and was looking for a book to help me learn to do more than my limited knowledge allows me to at this point. This book was an utter disappointment.

What you can expect from this book is an assumption of familiarity with earlier versions of Dreamweaver. This book basically tells you about how to use the functions of Dreamweaver, not how to create a web page. It assumes you understand what divs, ids, and classes do, how to create them, how they function on web pages, and why you might want them. It jumps around and you should not expect to get much web knowledge at all out of this book.

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