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Adobe Dreamweaver Cs6 Classroom in a Book
Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 choose "Adobe Dreamweaver CS6: Classroom in a Book" from the Adobe Creative Team. The 15 project-based lessons in this book show you step by st
447 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 17, 2012
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334 books19 followersThe Adobe Creative Team is made up of designers, writers, and editors who have extensive, real-world knowledge of and expertise in using Adobe products. They work closely with the Adobe product development teams and Adobe's Instructional Communications team to come up with creative, challenging, and visually appealing projects to help both new and more experienced users get up to speed quickly on Adobe software products.
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April 4, 2013
As a new web design instructor and little time to select a textbook, I used this book for my classes after a recommendation from a colleague. I used it for one undergraduate course and one graduate course. I will NEVER use the book again.
Terrible book. For beginning web designers (the purported audience that this book is addressing), the book assumes way too much. Users are expected to know terms that aren't defined and the lessons in the book give very little explanation about what is happening and why each step is done. The images used for the instructions often don't clarify each step. Of the 16 students in my Master's course this semester, only one--ONE!--student was able to complete each lesson successfully. And even she admitted that, after having done all the lessons, she doesn't know how to create a website from scratch. She could follow the tasks, but it made little sense as to what the tasks were for. One serious flaw (besides the typos, unsuccessful images, and poor explanations just mentioned) is that the lessons start users right in the middle of web design. Readers of the book don't learn how to make websites--they learn how to edit and modify one that the authors already built.
To add to the frustrations of the book, the authors work for Adobe and repeatedly brag about Dreamweaver. There are statements like, "You'd think a program with this much to offer would be dense, slow, and unwieldly, but you'd be wrong." Note to Adobe: a textbook isn't an infomercial. One of my students, unprovoked, in class one day said, "What's with all the bragging and saying how easy each step is? The book actually makes me feel stupid because it tells me how easy Dreamweaver makes things, and I can't figure it out!"
As their instructor, I walked myself through each of the lessons as well. Sure, I was able to complete the tasks, but I struggled at some point with each of the lessons (and I know Dreamweaver and CSS!)
Students would, honestly, be better off looking for YouTube videos and tutorial sites than purchasing this book. It does little for them and makes web design seem impossibly difficult. It isn't.
Terrible book. For beginning web designers (the purported audience that this book is addressing), the book assumes way too much. Users are expected to know terms that aren't defined and the lessons in the book give very little explanation about what is happening and why each step is done. The images used for the instructions often don't clarify each step. Of the 16 students in my Master's course this semester, only one--ONE!--student was able to complete each lesson successfully. And even she admitted that, after having done all the lessons, she doesn't know how to create a website from scratch. She could follow the tasks, but it made little sense as to what the tasks were for. One serious flaw (besides the typos, unsuccessful images, and poor explanations just mentioned) is that the lessons start users right in the middle of web design. Readers of the book don't learn how to make websites--they learn how to edit and modify one that the authors already built.
To add to the frustrations of the book, the authors work for Adobe and repeatedly brag about Dreamweaver. There are statements like, "You'd think a program with this much to offer would be dense, slow, and unwieldly, but you'd be wrong." Note to Adobe: a textbook isn't an infomercial. One of my students, unprovoked, in class one day said, "What's with all the bragging and saying how easy each step is? The book actually makes me feel stupid because it tells me how easy Dreamweaver makes things, and I can't figure it out!"
As their instructor, I walked myself through each of the lessons as well. Sure, I was able to complete the tasks, but I struggled at some point with each of the lessons (and I know Dreamweaver and CSS!)
Students would, honestly, be better off looking for YouTube videos and tutorial sites than purchasing this book. It does little for them and makes web design seem impossibly difficult. It isn't.
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