2. "Foundation Web Design with Dreamweaver 8"
by Craig Grannell is a new title in the
Foundation series from Friends of ED, a very
impressive series of cutting-edge web-design
books that mostly focuses on advanced design
and programming techniques. The series is
widely acclaimed for its no-nonsense, hands-
on, thorough and thoroughly researched
approach, with the backing of an outstanding
user-to-user and author-to-user forum on its
website.
"Foundation Web Design for Dreamweaver 8"
is a bit of an anomaly in the series. It's
definitely not an advanced book, and it's not
terribly thorough. It would make an excellent
introduction to CSS and to Dreamweaver for
an old HTML hand who's about to make the
move to standards-compliant, WYSIWYG
webpage design, but it's definitely not suitable
3. for someone who has no idea what HTML
looks like, and anyone who has any familiarity
with any of Dreamweaver's recent versions is
likely to find the material overly elementary.
The editorial comments on the back cover of
the book deride how "Most books about
Dreamweaver are massive tomes that go
through every menu option in painstaking
detail." This book definitely is not massive --
it's just over 300 pages including the index,
many unnecessary (and unnecessarily
oversized) screenshots, and way too much
whitespace at the bottoms of pages when an
inline screenshot flows to the next page -- and
it certainly doesn't go through every menu
option. Indeed, many of the options aren't
mentioned at all, with examples often telling
you something on the order of "click A, enter B
in the C box, select option D, hit OK" or "the
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