Beginning Dreamweaver MX 2004 (Paperback)

What I do want to point out about this book, is Imar Spaanjaars - one of the 3 authors on the book, who is absolutely amazing. I subscribe to the book's support forum at p2p.wrox.com, and Imar never fails to answer a dreamweaver question, or provide a solution - even when it does not involve the book. To me, that alone was worth the price of the book.

Thank you Wrox for a great Dreamweaver book, and thank you in particular to Imar.

I would heartily recommend this book to anyone wishing to gain a good understanding of Dreamweaver - and have fun on the way! Even more to the point, this book has helped enormously in terms of my career progress.

The book guides you step by step through various stages of the development process of each web site and after each particular stage it explains 'how it works' behind the screens. So the reader knows exactly what is happening and why it is happening - he is not blindly hitting the keys only because 'the book says so'.

Another great feature of the book is the online support available on the p2p forum. At times when I got stuck and didn't see the expected results on screen, I posted my queries on the forum and got them answered in no time. At other times I could just go through the queries posted by the other readers - which was again very helpful, because all were referring the same book. So many of my queries got answered without even posting them on the forum.

The book has three web sites developed step by step. The first one is static and the other two dynamic. I found the the first two sites much straight forward and well explained. The last site deals with building a structure of a dynamic site which can later on be developed with just the data from the data base. I found this chapter a bit complicated and felt that it could have been explained in more detail. However since I got a readymade structure at my disposal, I know I can develope many more sites based on this structure, by just filling the values in the database.

When I bought this book, I was a complete novice in the field of Dreamwever. When I finished the book I had the satisfaction of having developed three complete web sites. Since these three web sites are all completely different in nature from each other, I got a wide experience in developing static as well dynamic sites. Most importantly this book lent me a confidence to build web sites using Dreamweaver. Go for it if you are a beginner and if you want the satisfaction of having developed a web site on your own.