Thursday, March 26, 2009

Textbook Thoughts

I have mixed feelings about this Dreamweaver textbook. On the one hand, it does give a good introduction for people new to Dreamweaver. I also like that it includes screenshots (which I can now do and I am so happy!!), because that lets you follow along with what the book's talking about. On the other hand, I feel like there's so much stuff the book doesn't address that would have been useful to have. It doesn't talk about how to attach a file to be downloaded. And although it does talk about creating and editing your own template, it doesn't talk about the templates that are already included with the software and how to edit/manipulate those. Of course, I haven't really looked at any other books for help or reference so I don't know if there are any better intro books out there or not. I think I definitely liked the Photoshop book better. But this book is still helpful, and I'll definitely keep it instead of selling it back to the bookstore at the end of the semester. I just think the author could have included more than he did - the book's only got 140 pages to the Photoshop's 250.

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