| Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Classroom in a Book |  | Author: Adobe Creative Team
Publisher: Adobe Press
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Edition: 1 Pap/Dvdr
Pages: 432
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0321701771
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Publication Date: June 5, 2010
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Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 choose Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team at Adobe Press.
The 18 project-based lessons in this book show readers step-by-step the key techniques for working in Dreamweaver CS5. Readers learn what they need to know to create a professional website without having to delve into code. This completely revised CS5 edition covers Adobe's Spry framework for Ajax to create dynamic interfaces, Spry widgets (pre-built user interface components) to quickly add common components to Web pages; and Live View, a working browser rendering right in the program. The book also shows how to enter text in headings, paragraphs, lists, and tables; insert graphics and Photoshop Smart Objects; add links to text and images; apply cascading style sheets; and customize the Dreamweaver workspace. Readers will also learn to add interactive elements to their sites, such as Flash video and animation, get guidance for working with code, and finally publish a finished site to the Web.
The companion DVD includes lesson files so readers can work along with the book, as well as 2 hours of FREE video tutorials from 'Learn Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 by Video' by video2brain and Adobe Press.
“The Classroom in a Book series is by far the best training material on the market. Everything you need to master the software is included: clear explanations of each lesson, step-by-step instructions, and the project files for the students.” —Barbara Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor, Rocky Mountain Training
Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does—an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
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 The Best Book on Dreamweaver There Has Even Been! August 21, 2010
M. Media Studios Inc. (Northern Virginia (West of DC))
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Of all the Classroom in a Book offerings for CS5, Dreamweaver is the book which has made a quantum leap forward. It has been reworked from cover to cover with all new lessons. It will get you revved about website creation. We've been designing websites for fifteen years. Our first client was NBC News. That means we have seen many web design tools come and go. We did not feel as if we had really arrived in the web design world until Adobe acquired GoLive (GL) and incorporated it into its first Creative Suite offering in September 2003. The only way Janet & I managed to master GoLive was by carefully studying Classroom in a Book. It was not only educational but the lessons were inspirational. We hung onto GoLive for as long as possible after Adobe discontinued it in favor of the freshly acquired Dreamweaver (Dw), but with time GL could no longer create the pages a modern-day web designer needs. We struggled through making the jump to Dreamweaver CS4 by watching many videos but the intricacies of the app were not sinking in. We studied Dw CS4 Classroom in a Book (CIB). It all started to fall in place. We have a long history with CIB and though we were grateful the Dw CS4 volume kick-started our daily reliance on that app, the book lacked the inspirational lessons that we've come to expect from the CIB series. If you've been around website creation, maintenance, and management for as long as we have, Dreamweaver is not that tough to get started on, for simple tasks. If you are new to the world of website development Dw, can be a daunting and steep mountain to climb because you are tossed, head first, into the foreign land of internet technology. Because Dw is the tool of choice for millions of web professionals, this book's author had a fine line to walk. Amazingly, it manages to speak to the reader on a very professional level but assumes that you know nothing about building websites. By page 18 you should be comfortable with Dw's workspace, which has some unique twists to familiar user interface (UI) of InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop or other apps in the CS5 Design Suites packages. Lesson 2 assumes that you know nothing about HTML code, the foundation of the pages you'll be creating. The familiarization with getting under the internet's hood continues in Lesson 3 where the author makes sure you are up to speed with cascading style sheets (CSS). CSS is quite similar to creating styles in other apps, such as InDesign. This lesson does a magnificent job of illuminating how simple the CSS concepts are to your work. It's taken fifty-some pages to get there, but you are now ready for the CIB Quick Start lesson which allows you to get a taste of how all of this comes together in Dw. Lesson 5 is the one which really put big smiles on our faces. The author starts page layout the same way we do, with a pencil and paper. You are guided through how to organize a project and how that impacts not only what someone sees on the computer screen but on other handheld devices, as well. At the same time, the book guides you through how each one of these considerations are handled in Dw. Lessons 6-10 are the "Working with..." chapters. This is where you get down to the heavy lifting of Dw; it's all the day to day tasks of web communication professionals. In some books, this becomes learning drudgery. This CIB makes it interesting by sprinkling the chapters with carefully chosen sidebars which brings you up to speed on why what you have just learned is relevant to the internet, in general, while delving into how other Adobe apps play a role in the overall scheme of creating your pages. Lessons 11 and 12 get into interactivity and Flash integration. This is where having all the files which come on the DVD, for these lessons, make all the difference from a book that does not offer them or your attempting to learn this with the Dw users manual. Teaching form creation and working with databases is kind of tricky. I've climbed those walls before but these are the two chapters where I had to tap the brakes a few times to slow down my learning process. Add to that the next chapter on making pages dynamic and you have now entered a side of Dw learning that the basics books avoid. Nevertheless, if you want to know what web professionals know, you'll want to carefully study these three chapters. Though the author has kept you informed, throughout the book, about hand coding, we applaud that the majority of it has been relegated to lesson 16. If you're new to Dw, many books turn people off by trying to teach too much about coding because as HTML experts, that's their thing. For many of us, cooking up delicious web experiences is our thing and getting into the code is akin to scrubbing the pots. Yes, the pots have to be scrubbed but they keep until after dinner. Over the years we have made friends with some of the world's best and brightest in GoLive and Dreamweaver. Some are authors of best selling books who have assisted us with our own web challenges. I hope we aren't going to lose any friends by saying that Dw CS5 CIB is the best book on Dreamweaver there has ever been. It's our new reference guide.
 Not bad, but needed another round of editing & QA August 18, 2010
D. Hyrup (Washington DC Metro, USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
My first impression is that there are a number of typos and missing/changed references that should have been caught by someone at the publisher in review. However, if the reader is really paying attention they will be able to fix them on their own. Other than perhaps the HTML based Spry data set example in Chapter 14, which didn't work at all, though I'm not sure that is a problem with the example in the book or with Dreamweaver CS5 itself.
Despite the poor QA review by Peachpit/Adobe Press (the publishers of the book), the book does what it sets out to do, which is teach you to use Dreamweaver CS5. There is a lot of content and it is presented well, though I found it odd that it didn't cover some of the basics like use of rulers and guides to help with design. It is not as detailed as the DW CS5 missing manual, but it is meant more as a tutorial than a reference, and as such, it is a good launching point for new Dreamweaver users.
Good, solid book August 14, 2010
Mark A. Delgrosso (Mesa, AZ USA)
This is a pretty intense program and this book breaks it down as best it can to make it teachable. Some of the lessons were rather hard but that could just be me. Great learning too!
Owners of Dreamweaver CS5 will find this packed with tutorials August 14, 2010
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A top pick is an official training workbook from Adobe Systems, DREAMWEAVER CS5 CLASSROOM IN A BOOK. It offers a complete course on Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, offering 17 lessons covering all the basics of the program. Owners of Dreamweaver CS5 will find this packed with tutorials.
Finally, I book I can use to teach with. August 12, 2010
Melissa Piccone (Leesburg, va)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
The CS4 Classroom in a book sucked eggs. I would hand it out as a parting gift to my students.
This CS5 version has been completely re-written. I will actually use this book when I teach my Dreamweaver classes from now on. I'm an Adobe Certified Instructor. The lessons in this book cover all the basics beginners need to know. It covers lots of basic questions about HTML and CSS. There are better books out there for intermediate users, but for someone just getting started with no clue about HTML, CSS and Dreamweaver, I highly recommend this book.
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