Apr 072010
Product Description
Get the hottest collection of cool tips and hidden secrets for the best results FAST! When it comes to Dreamweaver, time is money. This book is all about speed; showing you how to get more work done faster, while actually increasing quality. The whole concept is to help make you faster and more productive than ever with Dreamweaver. This book is nothing but sidebars, giving you the information you need in its easiest form.Amazon.com Review
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Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips should be renamed! Lowery and Buraglia put together all the tips that save time, sanity and make life easier for designers and developers. These life saving tips are wrapped up in MX Killer Tips with a refreshing touch of humor.
True, these aren’t just ordinary tips on how to use Dreamweaver MX. Other books cover those. These are those little known tips about work arounds, hidden features (did you know DW includes a game?)and the various different methods available to accomplish tasks. Oh and for Mac users – the tips cover Mac methods too.
Leave it to this team of writers to not only cover the more complexed DWMX interface, but also cover cascading style sheets, browser compatibility, layouts, templates, library and other production items, application and coding tips and last but not least customizing and extensibility tips.
Best of all Dreamweaver MX Killer Tips is one of those great “take along” books because each tip is short and concise without requiring you read in any specific order. Next time you are waiting in line somewhere, whip out your copy of Killer Tips and make the wait productive!
Rating: 5 / 5
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.
Rating: 5 / 5
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.
Rating: 5 / 5
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!
Rating: 5 / 5
From the instant I cracked open the book I was finding nifty efficiency builders that I hadn’t know of before–and I’ve been using DW since the first version.
Users tend to get set in their ways and find what works for them, but this takes you to the next level and helps you create, work (and even play) a little quicker.
If you’re a beginner, this is an outstanding resource. If you’re a little more advanced, you’re still going to be surprised at what you find.
Rating: 5 / 5