Multimedia Books

I purchased this book for a college course, and I'm just about done with it. It has taken me from someone who'd never opened Dreamweaver in my life to being able to build a professional looking website in a matter of 2 months. I already had HTML experience, but had never used Dreamweaver software before. Highly recommended for a novice. The explanantions are detailed and easy to understand.

It has color pictures on just about every page! This book is great in that it explains just about everything and does not assume that you have any prior Dreamweaver experience, yet it goes all the way through to explaining Cascading Style Sheets and layers. It combines explanations with tutorials - it explains what you are going to do and shows you how to do it, so you are not just following directions blindly with no clue as to what you are doing.
Here are the chapter headings:
Introduction: Web Site Development and Macromedia Dreamweaver 8;
Project One: Creating a Dreamweaver Web Page and Local Site;
Project Two: Adding Web Pages, Links and Images.
Project Three: Tables and Page Layout;
Project Four: Forms
(Note that it covers how to set up forms, but does not cover the server-side coding you would need to process forms);
Project Five: Templates and Style Sheets (CSS);
Project Six: Layers, Image Maps, and Navigation Bars;
Appendix A: Dreamweaver Help;
Appendix B: Dreamweaver and Accessibility;
Appendix C: Publishing to a Web Server.
Note that this book only covers Dreamweaver. It does not cover Flash, Fireworks, or Contribute.
Also, according to the back cover, this book is part of the Shelly Cashman Series for Dreamweaver 8 that includes Dreamweaver 8 Introductory (meant for a 3-5 week course), Dreamweaver 8 Complete (this book) (meant for a 6-9 week course), and Dreamweaver 8 Comprehensive (meant for a 10-15 week course). I wish I had understood this before, because I probably would have purchased the Comprehensive instead, which has 3 more projects, although I do not know what those projects are.

the book is great. as other books from Shelly Cashman, this book describes in detail the steps needed to master dreamweaver.
one bad point that I don't like about Shelly Cashman series is that they repeat in every lesson a very easy step that any one who use PC knows such as :
to close the file click the X mark on the top of the page.

overall I recomend this book to people who never use dreamweaver before.

I think this book is well written and provides excellent detailed illustrations for book learners as well as hands-on learners. I'm not a book learner, but more of a hands-on learner. I appreciate that the author was thoughtful of the different types of learners who would be using this material.

If need some help for Macromedia Dreamweaver MX: this book can sure help you.
That is if you read it! Good luck, The Larghe's

This book is formatted nicley. One can just follow the step by step examples in the tutorials from beginning to end. Also, the provided case studies at the end of each chapter further reinforces what was learned within that chapter (if one attempts to do them). It makes the whole idea of designing web pages seem simple. Granted, you will want to be fairly familiar with HTML if you plan to use Dreamweaver often. This book is a wonderful teaching tool. I recommend using this book as an aid for anymone diving into Dreamweaver.

I am giving this book a five star review because it has some interesting content, and the author gives the material an original spin. The chapters on Flash 3D, XML, and Swift-Generator were very helpful and dare I say, sometimes insightful. In contrast, I wasn't that excited about the chapters on PHP and MySQL, but by the end, they proved interesting. My biggest problem with the book is its overall lack of organization, and personally, many of the chapters would have been helped by more examples. Bottom line - this is not a cover-to-cover read, but if you want interesting content on some of Flash 5's more advanced features, I would pick it up.

I vacillate between 4 and 5 stars...but it's truly a great book. The technical descriptions of various tools of Flash 5 are quite good. Mr. Woods handled the more complex ActionScripts very well, in ways that I could relate to what he was attempting to do...which was show the incredible versatility of the ActionScripts and explain ways I could utilize the programming. I learned (finally, still with some difficulty) to use the Bezier pen, thanks to Mr. Woods' enthusiastic endorsement, and was able to grasp many of the aspects of Flash that had been somewhat weak for me before. I have read many books on Flash 5 and cartooning, and definitely would recommend this book for a good underpinning of the basics as well as assistance with expert Flash development. Keep up the great work, Mr. Woods.

An intern brought in a copy of this book into the office and before I knew it, all the designers were demanding they got a copy too!

It's a great book that deals with the stuff that's often forgotten when building a site - like explaining the benefits of good planning from the outset and then getting the thing ranked highly on search engines!

Got the book yesterday and didn't put it down till I read the whole thing from cover to cover! This is great book for anyone wanting to learn the best way to plan, prepare and promote a website and the author's succinct and witty style doesn't make it feel like a class lecture! The in-depth guides about search engines and information architecture means I've learnt how to get my next site right from the start and there's some great inspirational illustrations in there too.

Simple, precise and organized are the perfect adjectives for this book. It's amazing how the book guide you in an easy way through it chapters.
Im an Industrial Designer and I recomend this book and this software for all people envolved in product design.

Mechanical Desktop 4.0
Mechanical Desktop 5.0

This manual has been the standard for the training that I send all of my employees to and the return on investment cannot be beat.

In modeling there is no other book I would have at my desk than the Mechanical Deesktop 3.0 Assembly Modeling Manual from the Technical Learningware Company. The authors really know there stuff.

Love it! :)

it was brand new when i recieved it
and there the book even brought the cd that came along with it

amazing price would of cost me ALOT more at the school bookstore

My oldest daughter is going to school and she uses the book. It helps her out as the class will not allow her to bring the book home from class and she is greatful that I had gotten it for her. She is also helping some of her classmates by making copies for them.

I have 4 CD-ROM multimedia titles concerning Michelangelo and this one is the best by far. The interface and graphics are superb. You can access information on this disk in a number of ways. For example you can step thru his life, year by year, or access specific works of art. Also, there are many pieces about other famous historical figures that had an influence on Michelangelo's life. It is very well written. I find myself popping the the CD into my computer from time to time and drifting back to the 1500's.

You will find everything about the Italian artist Michelangelo, his works, his life and at the same time the CD-Rom will teach you what the European Renaissance was. A great learning tool.

I can't believe there is only one other review of this book on here.

This book is the most detailed and complete reference to Windows 2000 Server I've ever seen -- period. Additionally, as the review before mine mentions, the information contained within is still very relevant and useful for troubleshooting Windows 2003 Server based networks, so don't be put off by the title if you're looking for something to help you administer Win2K3 Server as well.

This book has almost no "fluff" in it, either. To give you an idea of its detail and completeness, the chapter on "Active Directory Diagnostics, Troubleshooting, and Reovery" is almost 200 pages long and full of detailed information I've never seen in any other book on Win2K or Win2K3.

I don't think Microsoft put out an upate to this, which is too bad, but it's still relevant today and will be for the next couple years, at least.

I always liked Microsoft Press Books and when there is some subject I must look for, my first priorities is to look in Microsoft editions if there is something related to it.
This Book has tons of invaluable information regarding Server 2000 o/s in lots of subjects and in such a level of detail that administrators with experiemce levels from little to very advanced, will definitely benefit from this book. It certainly is a valuable volume with information that is very helpful for providing resources and theory to help in Microsoft exams preparation also. Of course this is not a book solely indended for that purpose. It is mainly intended to provide resources, like all so called "Resource kit" books do, for better and efficient o/s maintenence and configuration, in the many many fields it covers. I give this book 5 stars because I realize that not a single day passes without referring to it. No Microsoft Administrator should miss this heavy volume. Get it and will be rewarded. To my opinion, you can be benefited from the material in this book even if you started your administrative career with Windows server 2003 o/s. it covers topics that 2003 server related books do not, at least not in that extent, maybe because they take ii for granted that most of 2003 admins have gained experience already from working on Windows 2000 environments.