The book itself uses large type, numbered steps and plentiful illustrations to make it easy to use. Beginning with an overview, it covers Dreamweaver's site planning features, working with text and images, and using links and tables. Further chapters tackle forms, frames, layers and style sheets. The final chapters are more advanced, looking at multimedia, Javascript behaviours, Dreamweaver assets and libraries, and managing your site both locally and on a remote server. An appendix gives a brief glimpse at HTML, the code behind Web pages, but in general this is a book for those who prefer to work through Dreamweaver's visual tools. Throughout the text, panelled tips and notes give helpful insights into professional web design.

Overall this is an effective Dreamweaver tutorial although it does not pretend to go into great depth. The video lessons nicely complement the book and let you take a break from reading from time to time. --Tim Anderson