Tax-exempt hotel financing: A primer for finance officers.: An article from: Government Finance Review

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Title: Tax-exempt hotel financing: A primer for finance officers.
Author: Thomas Hazinski
Publication: Government Finance Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2002
Publisher: Government Finance Officers Association
Volume: 18 Issue: 1 Page: 32(4)

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Hotel Security Officer
Ed Ellis
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Title: Intergovernmental Cooperation ON ERP Systems: This article describes the joint procurement and implementation of an ERP solution by three Nebraska governments: Douglas County, the City of Omaha, and the Omaha/Douglas Public Building Commission.(enterprise resource planning)
Author: Kathleen A. Hall
Publication: Government Finance Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2001
Publisher: Government Finance Officers Association
Volume: 17 Issue: 6 Page: 6(8)

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"So this is where the brain starts to shut down and that which we treasure most, our personal identities, begins to slip away....I suppose I should be thankful; it's a paycheck." With this disturbing sentiment, Kevin Henson begins a voyage into the world of "the temp." For several years while a graduate student, Henson logged in thousands of hours as a temporary worker in offices throughout Chicago's Loop. Those experiences, and numerous interviews with other temps and temporary counselors, create a vivid and often disheartening picture of working 9 to 5 behind the receptionist's desk, telephone console, or data-entry terminal.

In their own voices, the temps in this book lament the frequently demeaning and mundane nature of many assignments:

"You're not paid to think."
"Temps don't have names; they are just 'the temp.'"
"They always harass me ... because I just wear a sweater and slacks."
"The worst part is telling people what you do. They always ask 'When are you going to get a real job?'"

Where the temporary service industry is quick to extol the virtues of temp work—mainly its flexibility—Henson and his cast of temps reveal the tacit pressure to persevere through an unpleasant assignment, to accept every assignment offered, and to readjust personal lives to do so. Outsiders to the established office culture and hierarchy, most temps are asked to do low-skill work and leave more detailed or complicated tasks for the return of the permanent employee.

Whether temp life is a preferred choice or grudgingly accepted as the last option when "real" or permanent work is unavailable, all temps must confront issues of gender, identity, and self-esteem. Henson examines these issues, documenting the concerns and interpretations of temp workers about their own work lives.

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Oh, it's TOO true!.......2002-08-01

Update: After I wrote the following review, my employer sent out a reminder that supervisors needing a temporary worker should "Check out the link on the Purchasing web site showing a list of qualified Temporary Employment Agencies..." It's on a web page among the vendors for office equipment. And this is a respected private school whose credo states, in part, "We believe that we must strive for a human community of justice, mutual respect, and concern." Hmm.

"Work when you want to!" "We serve Fortune 500 companies!" "Get out of your rut!" "Get free training, paid vacations, and health insurance!" These are the promises of the temporary help industry and extolled in various job guides. The ads aren't lying, but they leave out a lot. In "Just a Temp," Henson presents the side of temping that the rent-a-peon industry doesn't want you to see.

Temping can be perfectly fine for certain circumstances. Examples are college students needing summer jobs, people wanting supplemental income, or those who don't want a constant job (especially if his/her spouse has family health insurance). And the author does say that some people like the work.

However, many temps I've known would relate completely to what Henson found during his own work experience, and from interviewing numerous temporary-help workers. If you are an unhappy temp, this book can be therapeutic: you'll know you aren't alone, oversensitive, or crazy. If you are considering temporary work as a primary occupation, read this book first.

Temps discover that the paid vacations and other benefits usually require accumulating a minimum number of hours per year, and the health insurance is too expensive. It is not unusual for these workers--and I was one for too long--to experience (1) demeaning, boring duties; (2) insults and snide treatment from the "regulars;" (3) the fear or experience of being punished (i.e., not being called for subsequent placement) by the staffing company if you complain or want another assignment; (4) being unable to afford the downtime and expenses involved in hunting for a regular job. The author does not censor the language that some of his interviewees used to describe their experiences.

Henson has some interesting chapters that talk about the history of the temporary help industry and how it fits into our culture and even gives examples of temp workers being depicted in fiction--and in our stereotyped images of "temps." In addition, there is ample text on survival strategies. Readers who want more in-depth material than in the book itself can use Henson's rich bibliography and endnotes sections.

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This digital document is an article from Food Logistics, published by Cygnus Business Media on July 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1319 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: One Truck, Many Zones Is Just A Divider Away.(multi-temp trailers)
Author: Amanda Loudin
Publication: Food Logistics (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2001
Publisher: Cygnus Business Media
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WWF SmackDown! "Just Bring It": Prima's Official Strategy Guide

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I still love Prima but this should have been better
this books sux my balls........literally
wwf smackdown: just bring it

WWF SmackDown! "Just Bring It": Prima's Official Strategy Guide
Bryan Stratton , and Prima Temp Authors
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Release Date: 2001-11-27

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I still love Prima but this should have been better.......2003-01-07

I am a big fan of Prima Guides. This was my first disappointment. This guide does not go into the game as deeply as their other guides. If features several tips, but is more of a deluxe instruction manual.

There is a list off all the unlockable item cards, but the guide doesn't explore that list. For instance, the game features 62 pre-made move sets. Prima should have listed thes movesets. In the game, they are offically called "UWKK", "UWBT", "UWER", etc. These letters mean Unknown Wrestler K-Kwik, Unknown Wrestler Booker T, Unknown Wrestler Essa Rios, etc. A person could make famous wrestlers faster if one had such a list.

Plus, two of the move sets are BUGGED! I learned this the hard way. If you automaticly give a wrestler Goldberg's or Grandmaster Sexay's moves, the game will freeze once you save. These bugs can be counter-acted if one knows about them beforehand. I didn't. Now, I must start unlocking stuff all over again. (A week's worth of effort lost forever.)

There are a few other bugs in Smackdown: Just Bring It. Many aren't harmful, but Prima should have listed them.

Perhaps this guide isn't very deep because it features a guide for the GBA game, "Road to Wrestlemania." Why on Earth is this guide with this book? These games have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Maybe Prima thought a RtW guide was too brief to publish alone. I can understand that from a business perspective. But if that is the reason why the JBI guide suffers, Prima made the wrong choice.

I expect better from Prima.

this books sux my balls........literally.......2002-08-07

...the only good thing about it is that it has Edge in it...

wwf smackdown: just bring it.......2002-01-06

This book is full of useful info.

Les processus geres en juste-a-temps: Un point de vue ergonomique (Collection Instruments de travail)

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Les processus geres en juste-a-temps: Un point de vue ergonomique (Collection Instruments de travail)
Claude Lechasseur
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Sort, un temps i una gent
Just Portis i Jordana
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Succeeding as an executive temp: Skill, flexibility and confidence are just a few of the qualities you need to excel : portable skills

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Succeeding as an executive temp: Skill, flexibility and confidence are just a few of the qualities you need to excel : portable skills
Caitlin P Williams
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So you think you'd try anything once...

A fun survey even avid cooks will appreciate for its light-hearted twists and unusual perspective.

True food adventurer

Gates is a master humorist who has crafted an educational and enjoyable book about experiences with food

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Gastronaut: Adventures in Food for the Romantic, the Foolhardy, and the Brave
Stefan Gates
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An irreverent journey through the culinary world of the exotic, the bizarre, and the truly extraordinary, Gastronaut is equal parts cookbook and quest book. For your bedside or your stoveside, this hilarious and captivating journey through some of the strangest food experiences, past and present, is divided into three levels of escalating difficulty. Whether you're ready to gild your breakfast sausages with gold, re-create the Last Supper, or cook a whole pig in an underground fire pit, this book takes it all on with gusto and little regard for what one might call decency.

Gastronaut answers questions like:
• what foods make us fart?
• how do you make your own moonshine?
• is it possible to teach grandmas to suck eggs?
• how would you stage a bacchanalian orgy in the comfort of your own home?
Here is the perfect book for people who are fascinated by the wilder side of food and who, every now and then, want to show off their penchant for the extreme.

THE GASTRONAUT'S CREED
Food will consume 16 percent of my life. That life is too precious to waste; therefore:
• I resolve, whenever possible, to transform food from fuel into love, power, adventure, poetry, sex, or drama.
• I will never turn down the opportunity to taste or cook something new.
• I will never forget: canapés are evil.
• I will remember that culinary disaster does not necessarily equal failure.
• I will always keep a jar of pesto to hand in case of the latter.

Customer Reviews:

So you think you'd try anything once..........2007-01-01

Some of the dining suggestions in this book are too disgusting to read, such as Mackerel Tartare, Monkey Gland Steak and nearly all of Chapter 3, "Food and the Body," which considers the edible qualities of things like scabs and ear wax.

But for the most part British writer Gates is a comic adventurer who has gone to absurd lengths in playing with his food so that you won't have to - cooking with aftershave, insects and gold; making stills, margarine, and Fish Sperm on Toast; exploring the elaborate, or at least lengthy, traditions of Birds' Nest Soup, Chicken Foot Stew, Headcheese, and teaching your grandmother to suck eggs.

History abounds, along with pointers on recreating such momentous events as Bacchanalian orgies and various Last Suppers. There's Elvis' Fried Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich, Andy Warhol's Chocolate Balls, the Deep-fried Mars Bar and various elements of classic British cookery, such as Hasty Pudding, Flummery, Lumpydick, and Gruel, not all of which are considered suitable for eating.

There are some practical dishes too, which retain, of course, the spirit of fun off the beaten track - Stuffed Fish Heads, Stargazey Pie, Gravlax, and seasonal suggestions like spring carrot jam and autumn mushroom ketchup.

Gates is witty, knowledgeable and irreverent. Recipes are definitely included. For food mavens tired of eating sensibly.

-- Portsmouth Herald

A fun survey even avid cooks will appreciate for its light-hearted twists and unusual perspective........2006-12-11

Take a healthy dose of humor, add a healthier dose of food savvy, and you have Gastronaut: Adventures in Food for the Romantic, the Foolhardy, and the Brave, which advocates readers go to the 'wild side' of the culinary world to analyze cuisines, meals, and food-related oddities. From 'Why Not Eat Insects?' to an essay on cheese-making and a popular South African 'Monkey Gland' dish with roots in Victorian times, chapters pair hilarious observations, history and analysis with unusual recipes. A fun survey even avid cooks will appreciate for its light-hearted twists and unusual perspective.

Diane C. Donovan
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True food adventurer.......2006-10-13

Anyone who thinks he or she is a food adventurer should read this book. Gates has brought the adventure to a whole new level. I was amazed, thrilled, then aghast in the journey of the Gastronaut. Being a Chinese and a food lover, I never thought a Westerner can be as brave and as romantic about food. While a few of Gates's experience would make me frown and close the book for a few minutes, most stories are quite inspiring. I especially enjoy his "cooking with gold" and would like to try it out myself someday.

Gates is a master humorist who has crafted an educational and enjoyable book about experiences with food.......2006-08-31

In the opening chapter of Gastronaut, Stefan Gates teaches the audience how to make gilded Cheetos, from where to purchase the gold leaf, cost practicalities, nutritional information on gold, how to handle wafer-thin leaf, and the infuriatingly tricky process of getting the gold to adhere to your tasty cheesy snack. His best advice is to keep your gilding in check--it isn't practical to artistically coat an entire bag of Cheetos, so focus your talents on a few and scatter them elegantly throughout your serving bowl.

The rest of the book lives up to this snazzy opening chapter. Gates explores the world of making moonshine and making your own cheese. He provides dinner guides: Want to re-enact the meal on the Titanic? Stage a Bacchanalian orgy? Try out every aphrodisiac food ever? The second half of the book consists of recipes, but not in a traditional cookbook sense. Gates provides directions along with a historical perspective, his personal experiences, and recommended music for each food preparation. I'm not sure I ever plan to make chicken feet stew, mackerel tartare, nettle haggis, gruel, or Irish blood stew, but I sure had a great time learning about them.

Gates is a master humorist who has crafted an educational and enjoyable book about experiences with food. I thoroughly enjoyed my armchair seat for his adventures in food for the romantic, the foolhardy, and the brave.

Fantastic.......2006-03-29

Gastronaut will take you where no man has gone before. (Sorry! I couldn't help myself!) Stefan Gates is like a combination of Bill Bryson and Alton Brown. He has Alton Brown's wit, imagination and creativity, and Bill Bryson's humor and outlook on life! The part about teaching grandmothers to suck eggs was too funny!

Get this book! You won't be sorry!

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For the avid Pink Floyd fan who has read everything else........2000-05-18

If you're like me, you're a huge Pink Floyd fan. I've already read the major biographies, so I checked out this book. What a book it is? It offers articles written about the band and their members from the beginning to now. It's fun to read the older articles and agree or disagree with the writers. There's also an interesting section with quotes and reviews on every Pink Floyd or member solo song through 1994. An excellent book.

Before you read this book..........1998-04-15

I am a pink floyd lover. However, i did not know much about the band's history. I have read this book and at times it can be confusing. The dates constatnly junp around and this can confuse you. I also have read a "Saucerful of Secrets." Unfortunatly i read this after this book. I recommend reading "Saucerfull" before this book. It gives you more of a chronological history of the band. Bruno's book is everything written about pink floyd gathered into on big scrap book. Interesting but confusing.

Pink Floyd (Through the Eyes of ... the Band, Its Fans, Friends and Foes)

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Pink Floyd (Through the Eyes of ... the Band, Its Fans, Friends and Foes)
Bruno (Edt) MacDonald
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Pink Floyd Through the Eyes of . . . : The Band, Its Fans, Friends & Foes

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Pink Floyd Through the Eyes of . . . : The Band, Its Fans, Friends & Foes
Bruno MacDonald [ed]
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Kareers: An Off-The-Wall Guide to 100 Really Odd Jobs
John H. Anderson
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Kareers is a satirical hot button collection of alternative career opportunities that - at the cusp of the millennium - pokes fun at America's corporate malaise. It's a book for those who've read What Color Is Your Parachute? and decided that bungy-jumping is more their style.

Kareers lists job descriptions for 100 questionable callings, from alien smuggler to x-sportsperson, from busybody to psycho-babblist, from lounge lizard to slumlord to suicide bomber. Each kareer is described in full detail and includes a job description and sample references material. Accompanying each description is an illustration depicting a typical kareer-minded individual, along with handy tips for would-be applicants.

Why not consider a conspiracy theorist, and learn to develop your plagiarism and exaggeration skills while fabricating juicy new plots (hours are flexible, and you can do a lot of work via the internet)? Or how about a professional survivalist, where you can learn to foster and feed mass hysteria while living off the land? Or consider a body fluids/parts donor; benefits include free medical exams, transportation, and snacks.

This useful guide is a way out of your employment doldrums. It asks the question: why settle for a boring old career when an exciting and unusual kareer is at your fingertips?

Kareers is a great gift for cellmates, graduates, ex-spouses, job seekers, human resource managers, and pseudo-intellectuals.

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Concern is growing about the effectiveness of television advertising regulation in the light of technological developments in the media. The current rapid growth of TV platforms in terrestrial, sattelite, and cable formats will soon move into digital transmission. These all offer opportunities for greater commercialization through advertising on media that have not previously been exploited. In democratic societies, there is a tension between freedom of speech rights and the harm that might be done to children through commercial messages. This book explores all of these issues and looks to the future in considering how effective codes of practice and regulation will develop.

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You may not be a professional Web designer, but you do want to design a decent Web page. There's no place better to start than with the de facto tool of choice for just about anybody creating Web pages and this slim, low-priced guide to it! The same things that have made Dreamweaver so popular with the pros—an easy-to-use, no-nonsense interface and a slew of features and utilities—also make it the perfect tool for your purposes. This full- guide provides the quickest route to creating a fun and functional Web page with it. Each short chapter uses big, bold screen shots and step-by-step instructions to illuminate one aspect of the process. By the end of the volume, you will have created a simple Web site, filled it with text and graphics, added navigation and links, and tested and posted the final product. Timely tips and occasional sidebars detailing good design practices round out the package.

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You may not be a professional Web designer, but you do want to design a decent Web page. There's no place better to start than with the de facto tool of choice for just about anybody creating Web pages and this slim, low-priced guide to it! The same things that have made Dreamweaver so popular with the pros-an easy-to-use, no-nonsense interface and a slew of features and utilities-also make it the perfect tool for your purposes. This full- guide provides the quickest route to creating a fun and functional Web page with it. Each short chapter uses big, bold screen shots and step-by-step instructions to illuminate one aspect of the process. By the end of the volume, you will have created a simple Web site, filled it with text and graphics, added navigation and links, and tested and posted the final product. Timely tips and occasional sidebars detailing good design practices round out the package.

Customer Reviews:

Poor Project Focus.......2007-09-26

The 'quickproject' series is a great concept, but in this instance the author doesn't focus on the project at hand. Instead, he interrupts the workflow with other topics that don't contribute toward the successful completion of the project. It almost seems as if the author and/or editor sporadically lost faith in the simple genius of devoting every page in the book to a SINGLE project, start to finish, and omitting tangents, references, and other distractors. Or maybe they were going for page count? In any event, I'd love to buy a 'quickproject' book that focuses exclusively on how to create a web page in Dreamweaver 8. Maybe that's an idea for the second edition?

Flawed but Useable.......2006-08-07

Although the book gives you the impression that you'll be building the website shown in the book from start to finish, much like you'd assemble a piece of IKEA furniture, the book itself is never quite committed to this goal. Sometimes it seems like you are indeed building the project in the book, at other times the lessons appear isolated from each other, and are shown only for you to apply them to your own project. If the site in the book were a table from IKEA, you would end up with two legs attached to the top, plus a number of parts left over, and be one frustrated owner.

The book should be re-edited to live up to its QuickProject name, strictly focusing on the concept of walking the reader through a project from start to finish, and put together in a smoother fashion so that you are indeed building the site as shown, and will end up, at the end, with the site as shown.

That said, I was able to use the book to approximately build the site depicted in the book, but this was only after cursing the places where one lesson didn't flow into the next, and girding myself to forge ahead anyway. There were a number of times where I wanted to throw the book at the wall, and I consider myself to be someone who is good at putting things together. Someone with less determination would have given up, and I couldn't blame them.

This is a shame, because the visuals are beautiful, and the step by step instruction, within a lesson or major concept is very good. I learned a lot about Dreamweaver quite effortlessly, once I got past the choppy nature of the book, and became willing to accept a much less than perfect website. I did feel a bit cheated however.

The obvious lack of testing of the instructions in this book is amateurish, and the people who produced this book should be ashamed of themselves, given all the other great work that went into it. This could've been a really great tutorial but for the obvious lack of focus on the QuickProject core concept, and the lack of follow through to make sure the entire web project flowed seamlessly.

Confusing and not really a tutorial.......2006-08-05

I'm a big fan of the Peachpit Visual QuickStart Guides and was rather pleased with what I learned from a Visual QuickProject Guide on Flash ("Creatig a Web Site with Flash"). I've used Dreamweaver MX quite a bit but skipped Dreamweaver MX2004 when it came out as I was happy with MX.

When Dreamweaver 8 came out and I saw how different it was I had to get the new version. Since I already knew how to use Dreamweaver I got this book hoping for a PDQ tutorial to give me the basics of Dreamweaver 8 to get me started, knowing I could use the help files to find whatever else I needed as I worked.

The first thing I did after getting the book was look at the errata site, it said that no errors have been reported so I dug in. Almost immediately I was confused and finding errors -- almost on every page! I started writing a page-by-page error file to send to the author. It turned into a bigger project than I thought it would be and was taking more time than going through the brief book.

Also, this is not a tutorial book. The author assumes that you will be working on another project on your own and somehow working with the book at the same time. Even the files that you download to use with the book are already completed so their value is diminished.

If you want to learn Dreamweaver 8 I'd skip this book and get the full "Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide", "Dreamweaver 8 -The Missing Manual" or "Dreamweaver 8: Training from the Source" instead. Save the frustration. My copy is going back today.

Creating a Web Page in Dreamweaver: Visual QuickProject Guide

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Creating a Web Page in Dreamweaver: Visual QuickProject Guide
Nolan Hester
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Sure, the University of Rochester Medical Center used Dreamweaver MX 2004 to rebuild its vast medical library Web site, but all you want to do with it is create a simple Web page! This book is for you-and anyone else who wants to get from start to finish fast on their first Dreamweaver projects. As part of Peachpit's brand-new Visual QuickProject series, this slim, four-color volume recognizes that many of today's busy Dreamweaver users don't necessarily need or want to know about every single feature: Like you, they just want the quickest route to a functional, friendly site. This book provides that by focusing on a single project-a Web page-that you build as you go. Each short chapter uses full-page-width screen shots and step-by-step instructions to distill one aspect of this process-so that by the end of the volume users will have created a simple Web site, filled it with text and graphics, added navigation and links, and tested and posted the final product.

Customer Reviews:

Keep away from this book.......2007-04-29

It is very difficult to design a web page just using this book since some of the steps do not work as stated in the book. eg. Page 56, link text internally. Following the steps will get you nowhere fast. If you are thinking of buying this book take my advice and keep looking.

A Great Little Book on Getting Started with DW.......2006-10-28

I have several books on web design, and it's about time someone wrote a simple but thorough book on how to get started with Dreamweaver. This is the best I've seen, and I'm moving through it, smoothly, consistently. Yes it can be improved; sticking with a single progressive example would be better. But the other books, e.g., "Dreamweaver H-O-T", throw everything at you but the kitchen sink from the getgo. (And they get off into the weeds too much, and their text sometimes isn't in synch with the CD examples.)

To get started with DW, this is the best book on the shelf.

Excellent guide!.......2006-07-09

This book is an excellent guide to begin making projects in Dreamweaver. Easy step by step instructions. Anyone can use this computer program if they follow this book!

Anyone have a fireplace?.......2006-03-25

I really don't like this book -- here's why:

The Visual QuickProject series is "supposed" to be designed to provide you with a quick, basic, step-by-step instruction guide that helps you to rapidly learn how to use a particular software product, such as DreamWeaver. This book DOESN'T EVEN come close to this idea...

Instead, (with the exception of the first 24 pages), the book mostly reads like a dry, topical help manual with no step-by-step, project-related instructions to follow. Sorry Mr. Hester -- your book has definate potential, but it needs to be designed to teach, not simply provide generalized help topics.

Avoid this book........2005-09-26

I have been using Dreamweaver since version 2 and know it pretty well. I purchased this book for my brother because he wanted to learn about Dreamweaver and how to make a simple site. He told me that he was having problem getting through this book. I took a look at it and sure enough p 25 I hit the first problem. The section talks about adding images to a page, but I haven't made a page to add it to. I went and looked on the author's website and he has a section called errors. There he explains that he thought you would use your own page design not the one in the book, even though in the last chapter you just created the home page for this fictional site. As I continued I found this book riddled with error. My suggestion STAY AWAY!!!

Creating a Web Page in Dreamweaver : Visual QuickProject Guide (Visual Quickproject Series)

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