Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Classroom in a Book

This is a great book, especially for beginning users of Dreamweaver, but also for those who may have had a class or two in college and feel like they need a little bit more in-depth instruction.

I have used several of Adobe's Classroom in a Book (CIB) workbooks and this is just another example of a great class. I learned a bunch, was reminded of things I had forgotten about Dreamweaver from previous versions/classes, and thoroughly enjoyed the quick, easy-to-use format! I got more out of this book than I did out of an extremely expensive week-long course. The only down-side - there are a few type-o's in the text (it must be a gift - I find them in ALL the books I read!). Other than that - I loved it!

After working with Dreamweaver and this book extensively I have come to the conclusion that it must have been written by someone in India to save money. It lacks the proper descriptions and illustrations that are critical to learning from it, parts and points are missing in the lessons that make it very difficult to use and in chapter 9 entitled " Working With Spry " there is a bug in the software making the lesson impossible to finish ! You can (and I did) learn from it but it's torture. Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Revealed by Sherry Bishop is way better.

I purchased this book to try to teach myself Dreamweaver. I have never read any of the Classroom in a Book series and I'm feeling very ripped off. I've never used the application or any other web authoring software and I don't know HTML, so I though this was a good place to start. WRONG! The information presented in the book is so superficial, hard to understand and asks you to follow their instruction without any background or understanding of what you're really doing. The worst thing is, I also bought the Classroom in a Book for Flash at the same time. Truly a waste of money.

They have you clicking on commands without knowing why. If you plan to build a website exactly like the one in the book you'll be ok. If you want to set up a CSS style sheet with your own design, good luck. In other words they do not teach, they do not explain. The book merely has you following along to finish a website they have already started for you. I got through chapter 7. I'm at Amazon today to find another book. Complete wast of my valuable time.