Dreamweaver CS6: The Missing Manual

About This Book

Despite the many improvements in software over the years, one feature has grown consistently worse: documentation. Until version 4, Dreamweaver came with a printed manual. In MX 2004, all you got was a Getting Started booklet. Now, you’re lucky just to get a cardboard box with a DVD in it. To get any real information, you need to delve into the program’s online help screens.

But even if you have no problem reading a help screen in one window as you work in another, something’s still missing. At times, the terse electronic help screens assume you already understand the discussion at hand and hurriedly skip over important topics that require an in-depth explanation. In addition, you don’t always get an objective evaluation of the program’s features. Engineers often add technically sophisticated capabilities to a program because they can, not because you need them. You shouldn’t have to waste your time learning tools that don’t help you get your work done.

The purpose of this book, then, is to serve as the Dreamweaver manual that should have been in the box. You’ll find step-by-step instructions for every Dreamweaver feature, including those you may not otherwise have understood, let alone mastered, such as Libraries, Design view, behaviors, and Dreamweaver’s Spry tools. In addition, you’ll find honest evaluations of each tool to help you determine which ones are useful to you, as well as how and when to use them.

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This book periodically recommends other books, covering ...