Product Description

Sams Teach Yourself Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3 in 24 Hours

Betsy Bruce

24 Proven One-hour Lessons

In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you will be able to create a fully functional website using Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson offers background knowledge along with practical steps to follow, allowing you to learn the essentials of using Dreamweaver from the ground up.

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Dreamweaver tasks.

Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.

By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.

Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to do something.

Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems, and give you advice on how to avoid them.

Learn how to…

• Use Dreamweaver CS3 to create simple or advanced web pages
• Create forms to collect information from users at your site
• Organize your site with templates and libraries
• Make Cascading Style Sheets work for you
• Craft an interactive website with DHTML
• Display data efficiently with tables
• Dress up your site with Flash files and other multimedia
• Insert scripted functionality by using Behaviors
• Insert content controls using the Spry framework JavaScript libraries
• Customize and extend Dreamweaver
• Upload your website to a server with Dreamweaver’s built-in FTP capability

Betsy Bruce is a consultant and owner of Performance Factor, creators of training and performance support applications using Dreamweaver and Flash. She is an Adobe-certified instructor for Dreamweaver, Flash, Captivate, and Authorware. As an authorized trainer, she has traveled the country instructing groups–ranging from corporations to school districts–on effectively creating dynamic and standards-based web content.

Register your book at www.samspublishing.com/register for convenient access to downloads, updates, and corrections as they become available.

Category:  Web Development

Covers:  Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3

User Level:  Beginning

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #70522 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-07
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 600 pages

From the Back Cover

Sams Teach Yourself Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3 in 24 Hours

Betsy Bruce

24 Proven One-hour Lessons

In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you will be able to create a fully functional website using Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson offers background knowledge along with practical steps to follow, allowing you to learn the essentials of using Dreamweaver from the ground up.

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Dreamweaver tasks.

Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.

By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.

Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to do something.

Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems, and give you advice on how to avoid them.

Learn how to…

• Use Dreamweaver CS3 to create simple or advanced web pages
• Create forms to collect information from users at your site
• Organize your site with templates and libraries
• Make Cascading Style Sheets work for you
• Craft an interactive website with DHTML
• Display data efficiently with tables
• Dress up your site with Flash files and other multimedia
• Insert scripted functionality by using Behaviors
• Insert content controls using the Spry framework JavaScript libraries
• Customize and extend Dreamweaver
• Upload your website to a server with Dreamweaver’s built-in FTP capability

Betsy Bruce is a consultant and owner of Performance Factor, creators of training and performance support applications using Dreamweaver and Flash. She is an Adobe-certified instructor for Dreamweaver, Flash, Captivate, and Authorware. As an authorized trainer, she has traveled the country instructing groups–ranging from corporations to school districts–on effectively creating dynamic and standards-based web content.

Register your book at www.samspublishing.com/register for convenient access to downloads, updates, and corrections as they become available.

Category:  Web Development

Covers:  Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3

User Level:  Beginning

About the Author
Betsy Bruce is a developer and consultant who specializes in creating eLearning applications
using Dreamweaver, Authorware, Captivate, and Flash. She was lead developer at the
Cobalt Group in Seattle, where her team won the 2003 Macromedia Innovation in eLearning
award and was Manager of Technical Services at MediaPro, Inc., where her team won many
awards for the projects it developed. She is an Adobe-certified trainer for Dreamweaver,
Contribute, Flash, Captivate, and Authorware. Betsy received her B.S. degree from the
University of Iowa and her M.A. degree in educational technology from San Diego State
University. She is frequently a speaker at conferences on creating eLearning and using
Dreamweaver. She is also the author of eLearning with Dreamweaver MX: Creating Online
Learning Applications from New Riders Publishing. Born and raised in Iowa, Betsy lives
in Seattle with her partner and two Siberian huskies. Her website is located at
www.betsybruce.com.

Customer Reviews

Good book to get
I bought this and the dummies book - this is the one to get if you want to learn dreamweaver you can use this to learn dw8 also as they are very similar - some of the hour lessons take longer - it depends on your level of knowledge - (I'm not a beginner)

Frustrating
Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 in 24 Hours

I am a graphic designer, So know my way around all the other adobe programs. However i am a complete noob when it comes to web design.

I'm at chapter 15 of this book, and have found it very frustrating. It doesn't go into enough detail, CSS is a fairly significant part of dreamweaver cs3, and it seems to skim over the subject.

This book gives the same amount of attention to CSS as it does to the assets panel... the author of this book seems to have been too occupied with spliting everything into 24 1 hour lessons, thus neglecting important aspects and giving too much detail on insignificant aspects.

A Good Book To Buy!
This book is clearly illustrated, no tech jargon, just plain, precise and understandable language.

It takes you from thinking about your website layout right through to uploading your completed project.

The lessons are comprehensive and very easy to follow,I highly recommend it!