Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 Killer Tips: The Hottest Collection of Cool Tips and Hidden Secrets for Dreamweaver

Web professionals have long kept a mental list (or a tidy PDA address book) of friends to call on when in need of a particular skillset or novel approach to a problem. The "Killer Tips" books are like having a library of friends right there on the book shelf. And the Dreamweaver MX 2004 edition is written by a couple of the best in the industry...and unlike the friend on the phone, these pages are available whenever you need them.There's another audience that will really appreciate this book: the self-taught expert. If you've jumped into Dreamweaver and plodded around, making wonderful Web pages that look great and go "wicky wicky wicky", you may have missed out on learning some of the finer functionality of Dreamweaver--some of the time-saving tools that are available. Read through this book and teach yourself how to better use Dreamweaver--how to better take advantage of its possibilities.And this volume is truly updated for the latest version of Dreamweaver, the MX 2004 edition, which has loads of new functionality and is built atop a CSS foundation. I am currently recommending this book to those who are asking me for the title of a good Dreamweaver book that isn't written like a manual.

So far, I've bought several of these killer tips books. This one of course and the Flash one that just came out, but it all started with the Photoshp one. That's what got me hooked. I love these books. Great series of books and all are well written. Seems they are intended more for the everyday users or those who have working knowledge but still can't do things the right way. That's me in all cases. I'd recommend any one of these killer tip books.

This book is probably best suited for Intermediate level Dreamweaver MX users who are looking for ways to improve their productivity. This is a 200+ page book that is very colorful inside and has a killer tip per page. If you tried to learn these productivity and usage tips on your own without this book, you could spend at least an hour on each tip and still miss quite a few tips. This book will eliminate 1-2 years from your learning curve and save you hundreds of hours that can be spent on doing more projects. Here's an example of how valuable these tips are - if you encounter a fatal exception error while working with Dreamweaver, do you know how NOT to lose your work? This tip alone saved me a lot of time when it happened to me (given enough time, it will definitely happen to all users). Another invaluable tip is on using Dreamweaver MX to check how your web page will display in the various browsers out there without actually having all those different browsers!Some of the tips may not be real killer tips but there aren't that many that gave me such a feeling. In most cases, I am wondering if I just haven't encountered the problem yet and hence fail to see the power of the killer tip. The best part about the book is that you can open the book on any page and learn something new for the day. If you spend a lot of time designing web sites, you won't regret reading a tip or two per day and in the process benefit tremendously from the time spent with the book. The price is not too bad either so don't hesitate to buy this book. Enjoy the hundreds of killer tips!

New Riders has done it again. They have assembled a reference book that is written with a sense of wryness, but more importantly, the tips gets straight to point. There is at least one tip on every page and every page has a graphic that compliments the text in such a way, you can see precisely the effect at hand. Tips range from the basic simple tasks to some in-depth codes. Every level of Macromedia user would benefit from this book.With a whole spectrum of hints, secrets and tips, they have organized, what could have been a potential mess, into a smart collection of subjects.They also take into consideration of the Mac and Window user, by supplying graphics from each arena, to leave no one out. One aspect I appreciate, is when a tip will not work for a specific browser, they state it in the very beginning, letting you determine if you want to continue with that tip.Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips will make an excellent addition next to your work area.

I've tech edited several books on Dreamweaver MX and I pretty much thought I knew it all, well I found out you never know it all!This book of about 300 Dreamweaver MX tips didn't wow me at first...I flipped around and saw a bunch of things that I already knew about. But when I sat down and read through the book one tip at a time I began marking tips with post-it notes. When I was 2/3rds of the way through, I had run out of post-its and had to go back and tear previous post-its in half so I could mark the new tips I had found!My wife's father works in organizational development, and has studied many learning techniques and he says that if you learn one thing from a book that saves you time or makes you more effective, then the experience has been a rousing success. By the end of this book, I had over 20 of these "killer tips" marked, and also had a quick refresher about a few things I knew, but didn't use much. This book experience was quite an outstanding success. I'll be keeping the book near my keyboard until I've drummed all of the tips into my brain.