Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

Adobe Creative Suite CS5 Web Premium How-Tos: Essential Techniques is a concise, economical, current, and informed guide to the key techniques for creating inviting and accessible Web sites using Adobe Creative Suite CS5. Readers choose the How-Tos guide when they want immediate access to just what they need to know to get results. This book shows readers the Dreamweaver CS5 features they need to manage Web sites; design page layout with CSS styles; and generate menu bars, tabbed panels, tooltips, datasets, and forms with validation scripts. It gives readers the Photoshop CS5 skills to prepare photos and thumbnails for the Web. It teaches Illustrator CS5 techniques to create Web banners, navigations icons, and scalable graphic elements. It shows how to create scrollbars and buttons in Flash Catalyst CS5. Readers can learn to generate animation in Flash Professional CS5, and they can discover ways to integrate Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash to create cutting-edge Web sites with custom video players, animation, and interactivity.

Note from the publisher:

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Customer Reviews:

Scratching my head at these other reviews

By steveosan - January 6, 2011

All of these brief and non-specific 5-star reviews must be friends of the author, because this book has little to offer. It's only 280 pages and about half of these are spent on basic Dreamweaver tutorials that you're better off learning from a dedicated Dreamweaver book. The rest of the book has some decent tips, but the whole thing is shot down by the fact it's a "Web Premium" book and makes virtually no mention of Fireworks, which was created specifically for the web. There's really no excuse for that. This is really a 2 or 3 star book but the other reviews, most or all of which I would bet money are written by people who didn't read the book, compelled me to give 1 star to bring this book down to Earth. I don't want anyone to buy it think it's anything more than a half-baked tutorial on a a few features of a few CS5 programs.

not impressed

By buybot181 - February 17, 2011

Anyone who has enough skill to utilize any basic features of Adobe Creative Suite would be better off doing a basic internet search for tutorials.

I was hoping to save time by having a condensed resource that would provide short cuts, tips, tricks, techniques, etc. - but this book didn't deliver.

It really has nothing more to offer than a little trial & error could provide.

Easy to use while sitting in front of the computer

By C. E. Harris "maldivino" - December 11, 2010

The writing style is easy to understand and not dry. I can sit in front of my computer
with Dreamweaver open and refer to the book when I need help. I would definitely recommend it.