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Adobe Dreamweaver CS3: Video Training Book | 
 enlarge | Author: Garrick Chow
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 71289
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 168
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 032144552X
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.72
EAN: 9780321445520
ASIN: 032144552X
Publication Date: September 30, 2007
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Product Description
Benefit from the best of both mediums ? video-based training and a printed guide! Each Lynda.com Video Training Book offers hours of instructor-led video instruction, complete with a step-by-step, printed book to guide readers through each tutorial. The video tutorials let readers learn at their own pace, while the book offers a complete reference, helping readers identify the video tutorials they want to watch (timecodes are printed in the book), giving them the exercise files they need, and highlighting important keyboard shortcuts, tips, notes, and practical advice.
In Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Video Training Book, readers learn how to use all the tools to get them started with creating great Web sites, including working with text and images, adding links, modifying page properties, and managing Web sites. From there they'll move on to more advanced topics like using the new CSS layouts, techniques for working with new Photoshop integration features, and embedding audio and video files into pages. The tutorials show you everything you need to know to go from creating your first page to publishing an entire site on the Web.
This new series offers creative professionals the tools they need to get up to speed quickly and affordably?a Video Training Book is a great alternative to a weekend crash course! The Video Training Book series features the proven teaching methods of lynda.com and of authors and industry experts, such as Deke McClelland, Chris Orwig, Garrick Chow, and David Blatner, who make learning an engaging experience, bringing clarity to new or difficult concepts and software programs.
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 Good material and much cheaper than a class! December 16, 2008
I really liked this book! I'm a .NET developer who's taking an Advanced DW class next spring. The teacher told me if I knew the basics of DW, I'd do fine. At first, I signed up for an on-line class for $110, but the content was wrong and I couldn't follow what was going on. I decided to try this book instead, and it's great! It works particularly well if you have multiple monitors - I put the TOC page on my laptop screen, and my copy of DW CS3 on the larger external monitor. The TOC page has links to all of the various videos, ordered by chapter. Each one of the videos corresponds to a particular menu item or function in DW, and is easy to follow. I also like being able to stop the video to catch up or to make my own notes. Even though I haven't tried the exercises yet, I really like how everything's laid out. It works for me, and for a 1/3 of the price of an on-line class!
 Should be Labeled FOR MAC September 30, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
tHE VIDEO PORTIONS ARE CLEAR AND THE INSTRUCTOR IS GOOD. BUT, I HAVE A PC AND NOT A MAC SO THE ILLUSTRATIONS DID NOT HELP ME AT ALL. MAC USERS SHOULD FIND THIS A BREEZE.
A good set of videos for beginners March 3, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3: Video Training Book
This set of materials is about 4 hours of training, created by Garrick Chow. The lessons are divided into 12 areas: Getting Started; Exploring the Interface; Managing Your Sites; Learning the Basics; Linking; Working with Cascading Style Sheets; Working with Typography; Working with Tables; Using Layout Tools; Designing for Devices; Working with Rollover Images; and Publishing Your Site. Although videos are the heart of this "book," there is a small printed reference guide (167 pages) which briefly highlights selected points for each section. However, the manual will not replace the videos. Included in this collection are exercise files, which are the files used in the video demonstrations.
These video lessons are also found on lynda.com but this collection allows you to use the materials without paying for the connect time to Lynda Weinman's site or without having an Internet connection (or should I say a fast Internet connection, which posted videos often require). All of these videos are QuickTime so that player must be installed on your computer. An important thing to keep in mind if you purchase this video collection is that the videos will not run if copied to your hard drive, but must be played from the CD drive on your computer. The exercise files can be opened and used if copied to your hard drive.
As the title implies, these lessons are primarily aimed at a new user of Dreamweaver. Filmed with CS3, there are comments periodically in the videos if something "different" is available in this release of Dreamweaver, for example the option to preview web pages in various devices (hand held devices primarily).
I think these videos would be very useful to anyone starting Dreamweaver. One of the topics which typically confronts and confuses a new user is defining a remote server, and, of course, no single explanation can solve this problem, since servers are set up differently. This resource describes setting up a Tripod account (which is free), to give people an option to post files, if they do not have an established server already.
As someone who has taught Dreamweaver for several years, I still found things in this material that I had not used or used minimally (for example, changing the docking of panels, creating a site map, using a tracing image, using AP div areas for placing items on a specific part of a page, creating a disjointed rollover, and creating a navigation bar with images). Because of these "intermediary topics" these videos would further stretch the new user to tackle more than just basic text, links, images and tables.
I thought the introduction to cascading style sheets as they can be created in Dreamweaver was very good, so this resource would be useful to someone who had a basic understanding of Dreamweaver but still felt "fizzy" when dealing with CSS. There is not a lot of detail about doing a layout using CSS, but this video series is aimed at new users. I was happy, however, that the instructor included a video about creating a printer-friendly style sheet, and illustrated in a few steps some practical reasons to take the extra steps needed to create a screen versus a print style sheet.
Review by Linda Ffolliott
Tucson Adobe Users Group member
 This is NOT a Windows tutorial March 2, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is NOT a Windows tutorial. I am furious that the product description is written intentionally leaving out the important fact that this is a MAC video. I purchased a video tutorial because I wanted to see the exact same screens in the tutorial that I see on my Windows PC. The entire video is demonstrated on a MAC, with only a very few references at the beginning of the course to differences on a Windows PC. The MAC windows are very similar, but similar is NOT the same. Additionally, the book that comes with the video is not a "detailed" written description of the video as the video training book description says. The book is a "summary only" of what is in the video.
PRO's:
I just watched the videos, not following along and doing the exercises, and got a quick idea of the most important things that Dreamweaver is capable of. That's the true value of this course. This course is much much faster than reading a 1,000 page book that includes everything that Dreamweaver is capable of. I rated this product 3 stars instead of 1 star because the product does have value because of how quickly it gets you in to using Dreamweaver for web design.
Terrific Video Book February 28, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
As part of my new job I had to learn DreamWeaver in a hurry. The simple, no nonsense approach to web page creation is fantastic. I looked at a lot of Dreamweaver books and most were confusing and written for people with web work experience. Garrick gets you going quickly and is very easy follow. I highly recommend this video and any other products by Garrick Chow.
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