Editorial Review
Dreamweaver CS3, now included as part of Adobe's Creative Suite 3, is the leading professional Web design and development application in the market, and is a must-have tool for any Web designer or developer. Dreamweaver CS3 offers new CSS layouts, a unified CSS panel, and CSS visualization tools that let users create interactive Web sites without having to delve into code. Dreamweaver users can now create dynamic interfaces using the Spry framwork for Ajax. (Spry is 99% HTML, so it's accessible to both designers and developers). Spry widgets (pre-built user interface components) let users quickly add common user interface components to Web pages. Each chapter in this full-color book contains a project that builds upon the reader's growing knowledge of Dreamweaver, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce the most important skills. Readers will learn how to customize a Dreamweaver workspace, apply cascading style sheets, enter headline and body text, insert graphics and rollovers, and add links to a page. They'll also learn how to add interactive elements to their site, such as behaviors, effects, and Flash video; add new code or code snippets; and publish their finished site to the Web.
SPECIAL NOTE: Before starting the lessons in the book visit www.peachpit.com/dwcs3cib for important lesson and project file updates.
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Customer Reviews
ADOBE DREAMWEAVER CLASSROOM IN A BOOK HARD TO USE 
2008-08-21
After working with Dreamweaver and this book extensively I have come to the conclusion that it must have been written by someone in India to save money. It lacks the proper descriptions and illustrations that are critical to learning from it, parts and points are missing in the lessons that make it very difficult to use and in chapter 9 entitled " Working With Spry " there is a bug in the software making the lesson impossible to finish ! You can (and I did) learn from it but it's torture. Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Revealed by Sherry Bishop is way better.
Truly Disappointing 
2008-08-18
I purchased this book to try to teach myself Dreamweaver. I have never read any of the Classroom in a Book series and I'm feeling very ripped off. I've never used the application or any other web authoring software and I don't know HTML, so I though this was a good place to start. WRONG! The information presented in the book is so superficial, hard to understand and asks you to follow their instruction without any background or understanding of what you're really doing. The worst thing is, I also bought the Classroom in a Book for Flash at the same time. Truly a waste of money.
Do Not Buy This Book 2008-08-02
They have you clicking on commands without knowing why. If you plan to build a website exactly like the one in the book you'll be ok. If you want to set up a CSS style sheet with your own design, good luck. In other words they do not teach, they do not explain. The book merely has you following along to finish a website they have already started for you. I got through chapter 7. I'm at Amazon today to find another book. Complete wast of my valuable time.
didn't help me a bit 2008-08-01
this book is pretty much worthless. it's full of "lessons" that are mind numbingly boring and do little to actually help the user learn how to use the program. trust me, don't waste your money on this, just buy a higher rated book.
The WORST learning book ever. 2008-07-23
I feel the need to warn people about this book before they throw money away and most importantly before they decide to give up learning dreamweaver forever. To set the record straight, I am no fool, I am an electronics engineer and I am constantly studying highly technical advances in my career. This book is the worst I have ever come across. It is so full of mistakes that it is impossible to figure out properly. I kept finding myself looking up data in "other" books to figure out what the author was trying to say. Some of the exercises were so far off that it appears the author was on medication or something. I got to a third of the way and finally threw in the towel; I just could not bear another word. I have bought the whole series of the classroom in a book. The first two I read had mistakes but it was bearable but this last book finally put me off totally ever reading another book from the "so called experts" of that company. It's actually a crime to get money for a product that is totally unusable. The word classroom should also be indicative of teacher / student, nothing is explained, it is assumed that the reader automatically knows new terms and abbreviations. The author is totally detached from the reader. I downloaded the errata sheet but that matched the book exactly... Atrocious!
Marc Chelin
Excellent 
2008-07-01
Dreamweaver CS3, now included as part of Adobe's Creative Suite 3, is the leading professional Web design and development application in the market, and is a must-have tool for any Web designer or developer. Dreamweaver CS3 offers new CSS layouts, a unified CSS panel, and CSS visualization tools that let users create interactive Web sites without having to delve into code. Dreamweaver users can now create dynamic interfaces using the Spry framwork for Ajax. (Spry is 99% HTML, so it's accessible to both designers and developers). Spry widgets (pre-built user interface components) let users quickly add common user interface components to Web pages. Each chapter in this full-color book contains a project that builds upon the reader's growing knowledge of Dreamweaver, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce the most important skills. Readers will learn how to customize a Dreamweaver workspace, apply cascading style sheets, enter headline and body text, insert graphics and rollovers, and add links to a page. They'll also learn how to add interactive elements to their site, such as behaviors, effects, and Flash video; add new code or code snippets; and publish their finished site to the Web.
SPECIAL NOTE: Before starting the lessons in the book visit www.peachpit.com/dwcs3cib for important lesson and project file updates.
Decent set of lessons horribly edited 
2008-06-23
(Disclaimer: I did not use my own money to buy this book; it was part of a tuition reimbursement package. Had I coughed up my own cash, I would probably have given it two stars instead of three.)
This book is geared toward Dreamweaver beginners, and contains a decent set of concise tutorials aimed at giving the user a taste of all the main features of the program. The two bonus chapters (available when registering the book at Peachpit's web site) - on templates and code - are especially welcome, at least to those of us used to doing all of this by hand. The book will NOT teach you XHTML and CSS - if you are unfamiliar with those languages, this book will likely leave you feeling led around by the nose - and led rather badly, as well.
Which brings me to the editing. I have to agree with all of the editing issues cited in other reviews. A few mistakes are understandable; but it's not clear that anyone actually tried the instructions in these tutorials before sending the book to press. One specific example: in many cases the book instructs you to tab to the next field, when Dreamweaver has already moved to the next field for you. (Note I'm on a Mac; this may be different for Windows.) I was able to get all of the tutorials to work with a little trial and error; but if you are not clear on the goal of what you are doing, this kind of error can really throw you off.
In short: Decent book that was apparently not proofread. Someone should fix it.
Easy to follow 
2008-06-15
This book is easy to follow and will have you up and running in no time.
Dreamweaver CS3 Classroom OK, still a little rough on the edge's 2008-05-11
The latest if the popular series of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Classroom "Classroom in a Book" was for me, still a good purchase. However not a great one.
I have used Dreamweaver in the past, but I am feeling a little rusty after too many years of FrontPage use and i was hoping this would help make the much a easy thing for me. The first editions of the CS3 did have some errors in the which were pointed out and corrected rather fast. One of the nice benefit of working with Adobe Press, they do tend to respond fast and very professionally. That is very appreciated.
I use it as a light weigh training guide, with a good number of hints and good examples. I might be a little tough on the book only giving it a thee star rating, but coming from the awesome job that Abode did on the
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom, the Dreamweaver version has some very tough standards to live up to as far as books ago.
If I was going this again as a first book on Dreamweaver ? That might be a toss-up, but gut feeling is I might aim for the "Missing Manual Series" of Dreamwear CS3 by David McFarland also.
Needs Some Work 2008-05-07
Right now I'm giving this book a "C." I've read through at least three other html editor-type manuals, including an Adobe Go Live manual, MX 2004 Hands-on Training, and (going back a ways) Adobe PageMill. The assumptions made in this brief CS3 CIB text are okay with my skill level, but what about the rank beginner? The book also needs a glossary, to help the user understand all the CSS terminology. I'm not through the text yet but I'm disappointed. I remember really liking a Photoshop CIB I had a few years ago but this Dreamweaver tutorial seems thrown together to me.
