Product Description

"Dreamweaver for Designers" received a Prestigious Telly Award on March 6, 2008 for outstanding training product. This award is given to only a handful of producers each year. Learn Dreamweaver® from the ground up with this highly informative tutorial. Web designer and author, Sue Jenkins, teaches you the ins and outs of Adobe®'s venerable website authoring software. By the time you finish this training, you'll have built your first website.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83530 in DVD
• Brand: Class On Demand
• Released on: 2007-06-26
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Dolby, NTSC, Surround Sound
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 600 minutes

Review
Dreamweaver for Designers is a 10-hour multimedia course covering virtually all aspects of deploying the application in a design environment. The instruction is led by Sue Jenkins, a practicing professional whose fluid and clear style makes the course both instructional and enjoyable. Ms. Jenkins not only shows how to use the various elements of Dreamweaver, but provides insight into best practices. It is obvious that she is quite comfortable navigating through the maze of Dreamweaver commands and options, and she serves as a friendly guide to what may be an unfamiliar environment to most viewers. She routinely shows the effects of executing commands and settings by revealing how they will display in a Web browser. Her speaking rate and degree of detail are excellent, and the DVD is worthy of a well-structured college course. All of the project files that she uses are provided so that the user can try them while watching the videos. Dreamweaver is a bi-modal program, providing both a visual display of a Web page appearance, and its code view. Ms. Jenkins does an exemplary job of explaining the code that appears as a result of working with WYSIWYG, and the visual result of composing code directly. Her explanations of what each element of code does are lucid and easy to follow, and help to consolidate the user's understanding of how the many parts of Web page construction fit together. The 15 videos, which are provided in Flash format, are under the complete control of the user. The user can easily and quickly move to any lesson, start or stop, and repeat at will. The lessons include: 1: Getting Started; 2: Managing a Site; 3: Taking Your Graphics to the Web; 4: Creating a Basic Web Page; 5: CSS Basics; 6: Creating Forms; 7: Image Maps, Rollover Buttons, and Media Files; 8: Building Navigation Menus; 9: Working with Layers; 10: Behaviors, Snippets and the History Panel; 11: Templates, Library Items and SSIs; 12: Testing and Validation; 13: Publishing Your Site; 14: Where to Go From Here; and a bonus lesson: Working in CS3. This self-contained course beats any Dreamweaver book that we've seen. Having Sue Jenkins available on one's bookshelf, at arm's length, should give any Dreamweaver user the confidence to attempt to move their website from ordinary to great. --Amazon Reviews by Person of Taste

Review
Class on Demand (COD), a provider of professional educational products for technology and creative markets, today announced a brand new training title for Adobe Dreamweaver; Dreamweaver for Designers . The new Class on Demand self-paced instructional DVD provides users familiar with design concepts but new to the Dreamweaver application a step-by-step approach to building a professional web site. Class on Demand instructor Sue Jenkins is a Dreamweaver expert and industry renowned author of several Dreamweaver instructional books. Sue Jenkins represents the ideals and caliber of Class on Demand instructors. A phenomenal designer, author and teacher, we are thrilled she has taken the lead in this Class on Demand self-paced training course. Students from all levels will gain valuable insight to professional web development, said Paul Holtz, founder and CEO, Class on Demand. Class on Demand Dreamweaver for Designers takes students through the fundamentals of web site and application creation for users of Dreamweaver MX 2004 all the way through Dreamweaver CS3. Topic highlights include: Dreamweaver Environment Understanding the application layout and learning the basic navigation flow to structuring the web site. Implementing Graphics Mocking layouts in Photoshop. Understanding size and file types. Creating slices. Creating Web Pages Inserting images, creating hyperlinks, adding tables, creating style sheets and inserting comments into Dreamweaver code. Building Navigation Menus Structuring navigation menus, building button, rollovers and image maps. Incorporate media objects. Working with Layers and Templates Create and work with templates. Understand server-side workings. --Class on Demand Press Release

About the Actor
Sue Jenkins is a web and graphic designer, illustrator, teacher, and writer, as well as owner and creative director of Luckychair. Luckychair provides web and graphic design services to small and medium-sized businesses, non-profit organizations, consultants, writers, artists, and entrepreneurs across the U.S. Sue has over ten years experience in design, teaches Adobe® Dreamweaver, and is an author of two well-received books: Dreamweaver 8 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies and a new classroom-in-a-book titled Web Design: The L-Line, The Express Line to Learning.

Customer Reviews

You get what you pay for...
As a professional computer programmer and artist, I've read tons of self training books. I have never read one as clear, well thought out and laid out as this Educational DVD. I am half way through the course and will be sorry to see it end. Every time I stop after a technique is shown on the video and fool with it I soon develop a question and sure enough the very next video chapter answers the very question. If I find something in Sue Jenkins explanations that stikes me as vague I only have to continue to watch the Video illustration and it reinforces the point perfectly. The DVD won't make me a great artist but it definitely helped me kick out the stuff I needed for my web site. Hats off to a well produced program. I thank you. Now on to the next chapter.

Detailed and easy to follow
The instruction was very detailed about all the features of Dreamweaver and was taught in a way that was very basic. It didn't go over my head. If you want to know all the features of Dreamweaver and what they do, this is a great tool for that. It indepth but not too deep in complicated explanations. I now understand CSS. I give this DVD a thumbs up!

Excellent Instruction Video
This video was fantastic. I had learned how to do web design while I was in school some years ago using GoLive but hadn't used much of it since. This program not only showed me how to use Dreamweaver, but it also helped make certain I am employing the best practices available today.

There is a lot of content packed into the lessons that will help even intermediate users, but it is presented in such a way that it would be easy for even a novice to understand. If you've never done web programming/design before, just take it slowly and don't try to absorb everything in 1 day. It is helpful when using Dreamweaver to have some basic knowledge of html, but it isn't required in order to get a lot out of the video. The instructor goes over the most important things you need to know.

Because I had a basic understanding already, I was able to watch all the videos over 2 days without feeling overwhelmed. I would highly recommend this video. It was very helpful and well done and a much better way for me to learn the program than by reading a book. A picture is worth a thousand words!