Macromedia Dreamweaver 4 Fireworks 4 Studio: Training from the Source (With CD-ROM)

By Patti Schulze

Dreamweaver and Fireworks are Macromedia's power tools for developing Web sites. Web designers can create their Web graphics in Fireworks (no Photoshop needed!) and integrate them seamlessly into... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201711621
• ISBN13: 9780201711622
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Macromedia Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.7" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Primarily a Fireworks tutorial not a Dreamweaver tutorial

Like others have written, this book is primarily about Fireworks, so the title is misleading. That being said, its a pretty good book. It covers bitmap and vector tools, buttons, image maps and slices, optimization and exporting, and more. The book taught me a few tricks too. The CD ROM included synchronized with the book yet the files didn't do the work for you, so I still learned something, which is what I want. Overall I was satisfied with the book until the end, then all hell hit loose. The book gives you 2 projects to do with very little instructions because you're supposed to be able to complete the exercises based on what you've already done. It didn't turn out to be that easy for me. The HTML output page of the first project was nothing but blobs, and I couldn't figure out why. I had to contact a Macromedia tech support person who figured out my errors, which I still don't fully understand. The errors I committed weren't discussed in the book! But like I said, overall I was satisfied with the book. But I would not say that this book is all you need to learn Fireworks. It was light on behaviors and effects, and really most everything. It would've been nice if it gave me more in-depth treatment of the tricks so they "stuck" with me. The actual text is about 351 pages, but it could easily have been 500 pages to add some more substance to what was taught, just so I got some more theory instead of just "do this then that." And a few more tricks would've been nice. Like I said, you'll be needing more books after this one, at least I'm going to continue doing so, but this is a good start.

Fireworks!!

I just bought it thats why i gave it 5 stars

Good For Something

I can understand that anyone who bought this book to learn about Dreamweaver 4 would be disappointed. However, I got a lot out of this book for the following reason. It gives a real good lesson on laying out a page in Fireworks (or Photoshop) as an initial step in the design process. I have been interested in exploring this approach to page making. It was with this in mind that I purchased this book. From it I have learned a lot about Fireworks and web design.

It is better for Fireworks

Granted the book does not show much Dreamweaver. But there are a wealth of books on Dreamweaver. It does do a good job with Fireworks of which there are not as many books. If you want to learn fireworks this book works, if it is Dreamweaver you are looking for look elsewhere.