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Title: Playing with Fire: Tapping the Power of Macromedia Fireworks 4 by Linda S. Rathgeber, David C. Nicholls ISBN: 0764535498 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2
Rating: 5
Summary: Valuable Creative Tool
Comment: "Playing With Fire" is one of those books that readers are going to love or are going to hate. You will love this book if you already have been introduced to Fireworks in the past and are in search for some new ideas for graphical design. You will hate this book if you are trying to learn the fundamentals of how to use Fireworks 4. If you are a beginner you should work through the Fireworks tutorial that came with the software and possibly another beginner level book such as "Dreamweaver 4 Fireworks 4 Studio: A Beginner's Guide". If you already have used Fireworks and are intermediate or advanced then this book should be in your library. When I first read through the book I felt as though it needed more volume to justify the price, after all most books on Fireworks are 500 pages or more. Then I realized as I experimented with some of the projects that this book is about creativity and originality. The thing that sets most web design apart from the crowd is graphics that catch the eye of your audience and make them want to read further. This book has several design elements that most Fireworks users will find as valuable inspiration that they may apply to their web pages. "Playing With Fire" does not teach you how to use Fireworks, it teaches you how to take the next step with Fireworks and create professional designs.
Rating: 2
Summary: OK
Comment: I got this book after reading rave reviews and was a bit disappointed. A good portion of the book are tutorials I had previously seen on the Playing with Fire Website last year. If you've never been there then you probably wouldn't be disappointed. There are only 217 pages before the index so the book is a bit pricy.
There are some great tips but I'd consider them more beginner and maybe intermediate. I also found a lot of intermediary steps missing. For instance, when you draw two objects you want to join. The directions read to draw each then to use the Combine, Join command. It doesn't tell you that both have to be selected before you apply the command. Maybe that's what makes it intermediate or advanced... you know enough to fill in the missing steps.
But if you need to learn some basic tricks in Fireworks this book may suit your purposes. This is a quote about the book from the Playing with Fire web site, "Playing with Fire is a treasure trove of creative ideas, and a sourcebook of techniques for achieving beautiful effects for your Web site. " Individual techniques--yes, effects--yes. But a treasure trove of creative ideas... this is really stretching it--but it sounds good :-)
Do yourself a favor and look at this one in your local bookstore before making a purchase. I know many have been very pleased with it. I guess I was expecting more based on all the hype and hoopla around it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great book for a great program
Comment: I learned a lot of cool tricks from the Playing With Fire web site, so I could hardly wait for the book to be published. The book is filled with a lot of great tips and tricks (many from the web site) for Fireworks users, both novice and pros. This is NOT a how-to-use Fireworks book, you already need to know the basics, but its tutorials are clear and easy to follow. I only wish that the book expanded a lot more over the original web site. Even so, I strongly recommend Playing With Fire.
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Title: Dreamweaver 4 Magic by Al Sparber, Craig Foster, Murray Summers, Linda Rathgeber ISBN: 0735710465 Publisher: New Riders Publishing Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Dreamweaver MX Magic by Brad Halstead, Josh Cavalier, Linda Rathgeber, David Nicholls, Joyce J. Evans, Donna Casey, Jason Cranford Teague, Zac Van Note, Alwyn Joy, Matthew David ISBN: 0735711798 Publisher: New Riders Publishing Pub. Date: 14 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design by Eric A. Meyer ISBN: 073571245X Publisher: New Riders Publishing Pub. Date: 28 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Fireworks MX Magic by Lisa Lopuck ISBN: 0735711402 Publisher: New Riders Publishing Pub. Date: 12 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Fireworks 4 Expert Edge by Jeffrey Bardzell, Lisa Lopuck ISBN: 0072131462 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 16 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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