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Title: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Unleashed by Matthew Pizzi, Zak Ruvalcaba, Greg Holden, Thomas Myer ISBN: 0-672-32446-6 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 13 December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Dreamweaver Book
Comment: This book is the best resource for Macromedia's latest version of Dreamweaver. You can tell this book has been written from the ground up about the MX version and is not some reproduced Dreamweaver 4 reference.
We have it work and everyone seems to get quite a bit out of it. The new web personel - who need to get up a running in Dreamweaver fast have found it very useful, as did myself coming from UltraDev 4 experience.
If you need an all in one solution for Dreamweaver MX - than this is your book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent for Designer and Developer
Comment: Having just purchased Dreamweaver MX, I needed a book to cover just about every feature and this one fit the bill perfectly.
My main reasons for buying this book: I wanted to know the little details about DW-MX that I had glossed over previously: integration with Fireworks, library items, templates and site management, as well as database integration. This book explains those features simply and straightforwardly.
There are some excellent chapters to get you up and running connecting your pages to a database using ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, JSP and ColdFusion. I also needed to learn more about ASP.NET integration, datasets and datagrids in particular. The authors provide clear and concise explanations and tutorials which explain not only how to do it but why it's done like it is. One of the chapters explains how to create your own public extensions for placement on Macromedia's Exchange site. Customization of MX's interface is also explained in this chapter (very cool stuff).
This one won't collect dust on my shelf like so many books I bought previously.
Rating: 4
Summary: As a Useful Intro, Belies the title
Comment: I'm a very experienced computer professional, but I've never developed my own website from scratch. I've always thought it was a more design-oriented task than to do much with software development. When I agreed to help a club I'm involved with build a website, I decided to tackle learning Dreamweaver.
A book called "Unleashed" makes me figure that it's about getting the most power out of a tool. This book falls short of that goal as its treatment of the subject is very broad and not that deep. I found just enough information to get me started with the features I wanted to use, and a few tips on how to use them properly.
The title has a few walkthroughs which make basic pages and a couple of simple sites. After working through them, I felt like I could competantly build my own sites and get to work, but I didn't think that I had "unleashed" anything.
The book's shallow coverage is almost necessary as Dreamweaver is a very rich product. But the book makes matters worse by trying to cover every aspect of the secondary technologies that Deramweaver touches. The book uses pages and pages of space to cover installing five or six different web servers -- as if those products don't come with their own documentation.
Another fault that spreads the book thin is the use of different authors on a chapter-by-chapter basis. A guy named Thomas Myer drops out of the sky to write Chapter 16 as an "Introduction to Web Applications", and there's no surprise that it fits awkwardly with the main author's Chapter 18 on using "Dreamweaver MX for Application Development".
More and more publishers use multiple authors as a technique to reduce the time-to-market, and perhaps the cost, of developing a new title. Unfortunately, the technique just as often dilutes the value of the book. At the very least, it reveals the publisher's priorities.
I can't ding the title or the author for this shortcoming, but the publisher needs to hear about it: the binding is terrible. I used my copy pretty regularly at the computer for about two weeks and was surprised to find that it's already losing pages! They simply slip out of the binding, incorrectly glued. I'm well aware of the production costs of a book, but it's hard to feel good about dropping forty bucks on something that comes apart in my lap.
The book gets four stars from me, but I needed an entry-level tutorial and not a high-end reference. I found other books that fill the latter role, and if you have a need for a book to introduce you to Dreamweaver, this can fill that requirement well.
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Title: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips by Joseph Lowery, Angela C. Buraglia ISBN: 0735713022 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 10 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Hands-On Training by Garo Green, Abigail Rudner ISBN: 0321112717 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 08 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Dreamweaver MX: The Missing Manual by David McFarland ISBN: 0596003498 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Macromedia Flash MX Hands-On-Training by Kymberlee Weil ISBN: 0321112725 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 24 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Dreamweaver MX Templates by Brad Halstead, Murray Summers ISBN: 0735713197 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 17 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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