Total Newb using Dreamweaver

[SiliconJon]

Whoes me, this is taking far too long to learn. Me thinks I may be retarded...again.

I'm having the hardest time getting to know Dreamweaver (now using 8). I have the Dreamweaver for Dummies, and man is it dumbed up. First three chapters taught me how to do one thing I didn't know how to do...a couple of specifics for syncrhonizing my site with my program. But now that's not working anyway, and I find myself manually synchronizing with FileZilla for better reliability as for some reason now when I upload I get this insane error where the program tries to create infinite subdirectories with my resume folder on my site. I know it's a setting in my site setup...I would try to figure it out if manual uploading weren't so easy anyway.

Anywho, I sure do wish they made books as useful as class coursework, you know those sheets the instructor gives you that has like 10 or so things to do in a simple ordered and summarized breakdown.

Anyone have some usefull advice on a great book or other learning materials?

If you're curious, I'm currently working on www.SiliconJon.com (currently nothing more than a resume depository) and HouseOfWarez.com. And no, HouseOfWarez is NOT an illegal data site, though it will have tons of free data & related links, but all %100 legal. I was going to make it a trader site...but I'm a bit concerned about such a venture at the moment being so green.

[SiliconJon]

ummm...scratch THIS here post.

[ArcticFox]

If you have Photoshop, making the menu bars is pretty easy. Just design the bar itself with text and whatnot, then use the slice tool to cut a rectangle (or whatever) for each button, then Save For Web. That will give you an HTML file that you can start editing, with all the pictures placed into one.

I'll try and dig up the thread I created some time ago about it.

[SiliconJon]

http://www.thetemplatestore.com/tuto...navigation.asp

gonna try this

[SiliconJon]

I'm gonna have to get Photoshop or Fireworks.

OMG, $600 for photoshop...fireworks is only $400...heh.

I'm going to be donating blood for a few days straight...be back when I regain conciousness.

I can't get Gimp to cooperate with transparency...

[DarkStar02]

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Originally Posted by SiliconJon

I'm gonna have to get Photoshop or Fireworks.

OMG, $600 for photoshop...fireworks is only $400...heh.

I'm going to be donating blood for a few days straight...be back when I regain conciousness.

I can't get Gimp to cooperate with transparency...

Spend the extra 200 dollars and get Photoshop, trust me.

[filipino]

Hi SiliconJon try key in F1 when you open you Dreamweaver, the help is very helpull when i was starting learning Dreamweaver.

[SpaceSquad]

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Originally Posted by SiliconJon

OMG, $600 for photoshop

Buy an old version of PS, then upgrade to CS2...much cheaper. try eBay for like PS 6 or something.

[bwcc]

You may want to look at lynda.com - for $25/month you can have access to all of their material, download it and learn from it that way.

http://www.learnthat.com/computers/l...er_mx_2004.htm : is free, but has popups

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/dre...g_started.html : available straight from the source

If you're looking for another book, I've had some success with the Visual Quickstart series : http://www.peachpit.com/series/series.asp?ser=335245

[SiliconJon]

That's a good price on that Peachpit book...may have to grab that one. Thanks for that info bwcc.