| Pretty Cool | Rating:  |
| Very hands on...the only way to learn this stuff. I'd agree with others who say this is one of the best books they have on their shelf. That said, I'd say this book is good for those who already have a basic understanding of databases, ASP and Dreamweaver. Nothing in this book is very in depth but rather an overview of what UD can do and more importantly HOW to do it and WHY. I'd give it 5 stars if there weren't so many really STUPID errors (like missing ='s). There's tons of silliness like that which is another reason why I say the reader really should have some previous knowledge. |
| Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2002-11-15 |
| |
| Some good ideas but confusing | Rating:  |
| The things I like about this book is it touches on all the topics that you need to understand to build an ecommerce website and it has some good pratical ideas, although I don't think I would use much in a real ecommerce site. The things I don't like about it is hard to follow. Sometimes the content is missing a step and you have to figure out how to get to where the author is. Second the author doesn't tell you where to save your completed files so as you go from chapter to chapter you could have a hard time finding them. There are also problems if you don't finish one chapter before doing the next, so it is best to go from chapter one until the end, and make sure everything works before going on to the next chapter (good luck). The book is entirely based on ASP, which is fine because that is what I use. This book will not teach you much about coding, but it does teach you how to use some of the built in Dreamweaver components. Not much information on how to create templates and it is not nearly a complete reference of Dreamweaver. So you will have to buy another book after this one. I read that Dreamweaver 4 Bible by Lowery is good, so this will be my next read. The topics on Shopping Cart uses a prebuilt shopping cart written for Dreamweaver 1(in the form of an extension) so it doesn't teach you how to create a shopping cart from scratch. The book teaches you nothing about web page layout. All of the pages are pre-built using the authors templates. The book uses Access as the database. Considering the book is based on ecommerce you would think the author would tell you how to prevent a browser from downloading your entire database, which is what would happen using his tutorial! Also I could not connect to the access database from a browser until I set up permissions for IUSER on my IIS 5.0 server. Author doesn't mention this. It seems that the author doesn't have a lot of experience writing computer books. By the way I contacted the author about a problem I was having, just got a e-mail a few days later saying they were sorry about not getting back to me sooner, but they never answered my question. |
| Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2002-07-20 |
| |
| Excellent concise tutorial but lots of aggravating errors. | Rating: |
| This is a really excellent tutorial which takes you step-by-step through building a site just like this amazon.com one. It's like having someone quickly show you how to use the different features to get you up and running fast. Unfortunately, there are so many errors in the lessons, the message boards at friendsofed.com are jammed with frustrated readers just trying to make their pages work like in the lesson. It's a huge detractor, but luckily the book is still very worth getting. |
| Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2002-05-02 |
| |
| Maybe it helps if you use a PC. | Rating:  |
| MAC USERS: One thing that should be pointed out before you buy this book. This book will do you no good whatsoever. Long about page 5 there is a disclaimer that the server applications used as examples in the manual are nor available for the Macintosh. So sorry. Thanks for the money. See ya! At least with most software, you are warned if it'll work for your platform. The Friends of Ed are no friends of mine. |
| Total Votes: 5, Helpful Votes: 4, Date: 2002-03-20 |
| |
| Best Ultradev Book | Rating:  |
| From what I've seen this is the only Ultradev book which actually takes you through a complete application using a real relational database and showing you how to insert and update fields based on passing form and URL values. Plus it integrates some email features as well. All important to an online app. The stored procs section is nice to gt just flavor of whats possible there. Hooking it to SQL Server is very easy but converting between Access is a bite. Be sure and check your table names if you do. SQL writes it's table names as dbo.Table in Access it's just Table and UD (ASP/IIS actually) will choke on
this. The Shopping Cart is a bit dated as there are now more powerful carts for UD. Overall the best book for getting you up to speed with a real app, not just a simple single page insert, quickly. |
| Total Votes: 2, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2002-03-19 |
| |
| Pretty Cool | Rating: |
| Very hands on...the only way to learn this stuff. I'd agree with others who say this is one of the best books they have on their shelf. That said, I'd say this book is good for those who already have a basic understanding of databases, ASP and Dreamweaver. Nothing in this book is very in depth but rather an overview of what UD can do and more importantly HOW to do it and WHY. I'd give it 5 stars if there weren't so many really STUPID errors (like missing ='s). There's tons of silliness like that which is another reason why I say the reader really should have some previous knowledge. |
| Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2002-11-15 |
| |
| Some good ideas but confusing | Rating: |
| The things I like about this book is it touches on all the topics that you need to understand to build an ecommerce website and it has some good pratical ideas, although I don't think I would use much in a real ecommerce site. The things I don't like about it is hard to follow. Sometimes the content is missing a step and you have to figure out how to get to where the author is. Second the author doesn't tell you where to save your completed files so as you go from chapter to chapter you could have a hard time finding them. There are also problems if you don't finish one chapter before doing the next, so it is best to go from chapter one until the end, and make sure everything works before going on to the next chapter (good luck). The book is entirely based on ASP, which is fine because that is what I use. This book will not teach you much about coding, but it does teach you how to use some of the built in Dreamweaver components. Not much information on how to create templates and it is not nearly a complete reference of Dreamweaver. So you will have to buy another book after this one. I read that Dreamweaver 4 Bible by Lowery is good, so this will be my next read. The topics on Shopping Cart uses a prebuilt shopping cart written for Dreamweaver 1(in the form of an extension) so it doesn't teach you how to create a shopping cart from scratch. The book teaches you nothing about web page layout. All of the pages are pre-built using the authors templates. The book uses Access as the database. Considering the book is based on ecommerce you would think the author would tell you how to prevent a browser from downloading your entire database, which is what would happen using his tutorial! Also I could not connect to the access database from a browser until I set up permissions for IUSER on my IIS 5.0 server. Author doesn't mention this. It seems that the author doesn't have a lot of experience writing computer books. By the way I contacted the author about a problem I was having, just got a e-mail a few days later saying they were sorry about not getting back to me sooner, but they never answered my question. |
| Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2002-07-20 |
| |
| Excellent concise tutorial but lots of aggravating errors. | Rating: |
| This is a really excellent tutorial which takes you step-by-step through building a site just like this amazon.com one. It's like having someone quickly show you how to use the different features to get you up and running fast. Unfortunately, there are so many errors in the lessons, the message boards at friendsofed.com are jammed with frustrated readers just trying to make their pages work like in the lesson. It's a huge detractor, but luckily the book is still very worth getting. |
| Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2002-05-02 |
| |
| Maybe it helps if you use a PC. | Rating: |
| MAC USERS: One thing that should be pointed out before you buy this book. This book will do you no good whatsoever. Long about page 5 there is a disclaimer that the server applications used as examples in the manual are nor available for the Macintosh. So sorry. Thanks for the money. See ya! At least with most software, you are warned if it'll work for your platform. The Friends of Ed are no friends of mine. |
| Total Votes: 5, Helpful Votes: 4, Date: 2002-03-20 |
| |
| Best Ultradev Book | Rating: |
| From what I've seen this is the only Ultradev book which actually takes you through a complete application using a real relational database and showing you how to insert and update fields based on passing form and URL values. Plus it integrates some email features as well. All important to an online app. The stored procs section is nice to gt just flavor of whats possible there. Hooking it to SQL Server is very easy but converting between Access is a bite. Be sure and check your table names if you do. SQL writes it's table names as dbo.Table in Access it's just Table and UD (ASP/IIS actually) will choke on
this. The Shopping Cart is a bit dated as there are now more powerful carts for UD. Overall the best book for getting you up to speed with a real app, not just a simple single page insert, quickly. |
| Total Votes: 2, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2002-03-19 |
| |
| Pretty Cool | Rating: |
| Very hands on...the only way to learn this stuff. I'd agree with others who say this is one of the best books they have on their shelf. That said, I'd say this book is good for those who already have a basic understanding of databases, ASP and Dreamweaver. Nothing in this book is very in depth but rather an overview of what UD can do and more importantly HOW to do it and WHY. I'd give it 5 stars if there weren't so many really STUPID errors (like missing ='s). There's tons of silliness like that which is another reason why I say the reader really should have some previous knowledge. |
| Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2002-11-15 |
| |
| Some good ideas but confusing | Rating: |
| The things I like about this book is it touches on all the topics that you need to understand to build an ecommerce website and it has some good pratical ideas, although I don't think I would use much in a real ecommerce site. The things I don't like about it is hard to follow. Sometimes the content is missing a step and you have to figure out how to get to where the author is. Second the author doesn't tell you where to save your completed files so as you go from chapter to chapter you could have a hard time finding them. There are also problems if you don't finish one chapter before doing the next, so it is best to go from chapter one until the end, and make sure everything works before going on to the next chapter (good luck). The book is entirely based on ASP, which is fine because that is what I use. This book will not teach you much about coding, but it does teach you how to use some of the built in Dreamweaver components. Not much information on how to create templates and it is not nearly a complete reference of Dreamweaver. So you will have to buy another book after this one. I read that Dreamweaver 4 Bible by Lowery is good, so this will be my next read. The topics on Shopping Cart uses a prebuilt shopping cart written for Dreamweaver 1(in the form of an extension) so it doesn't teach you how to create a shopping cart from scratch. The book teaches you nothing about web page layout. All of the pages are pre-built using the authors templates. The book uses Access as the database. Considering the book is based on ecommerce you would think the author would tell you how to prevent a browser from downloading your entire database, which is what would happen using his tutorial! Also I could not connect to the access database from a browser until I set up permissions for IUSER on my IIS 5.0 server. Author doesn't mention this. It seems that the author doesn't have a lot of experience writing computer books. By the way I contacted the author about a problem I was having, just got a e-mail a few days later saying they were sorry about not getting back to me sooner, but they never answered my question. |
| Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2002-07-20 |
| |
| Excellent concise tutorial but lots of aggravating errors. | Rating: |
| This is a really excellent tutorial which takes you step-by-step through building a site just like this amazon.com one. It's like having someone quickly show you how to use the different features to get you up and running fast. Unfortunately, there are so many errors in the lessons, the message boards at friendsofed.com are jammed with frustrated readers just trying to make their pages work like in the lesson. It's a huge detractor, but luckily the book is still very worth getting. |
| Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2002-05-02 |
| |
| Maybe it helps if you use a PC. | Rating: |
| MAC USERS: One thing that should be pointed out before you buy this book. This book will do you no good whatsoever. Long about page 5 there is a disclaimer that the server applications used as examples in the manual are nor available for the Macintosh. So sorry. Thanks for the money. See ya! At least with most software, you are warned if it'll work for your platform. The Friends of Ed are no friends of mine. |
| Total Votes: 5, Helpful Votes: 4, Date: 2002-03-20 |
| |
| Best Ultradev Book | Rating: |
| From what I've seen this is the only Ultradev book which actually takes you through a complete application using a real relational database and showing you how to insert and update fields based on passing form and URL values. Plus it integrates some email features as well. All important to an online app. The stored procs section is nice to gt just flavor of whats possible there. Hooking it to SQL Server is very easy but converting between Access is a bite. Be sure and check your table names if you do. SQL writes it's table names as dbo.Table in Access it's just Table and UD (ASP/IIS actually) will choke on
this. The Shopping Cart is a bit dated as there are now more powerful carts for UD. Overall the best book for getting you up to speed with a real app, not just a simple single page insert, quickly. |
| Total Votes: 2, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2002-03-19 |
| |
| Pretty Cool | Rating: |
| Very hands on...the only way to learn this stuff. I'd agree with others who say this is one of the best books they have on their shelf. That said, I'd say this book is good for those who already have a basic understanding of databases, ASP and Dreamweaver. Nothing in this book is very in depth but rather an overview of what UD can do and more importantly HOW to do it and WHY. I'd give it 5 stars if there weren't so many really STUPID errors (like missing ='s). There's tons of silliness like that which is another reason why I say the reader really should have some previous knowledge. |
| Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2002-11-15 |
| |
| Some good ideas but confusing | Rating: |
| The things I like about this book is it touches on all the topics that you need to understand to build an ecommerce website and it has some good pratical ideas, although I don't think I would use much in a real ecommerce site. The things I don't like about it is hard to follow. Sometimes the content is missing a step and you have to figure out how to get to where the author is. Second the author doesn't tell you where to save your completed files so as you go from chapter to chapter you could have a hard time finding them. There are also problems if you don't finish one chapter before doing the next, so it is best to go from chapter one until the end, and make sure everything works before going on to the next chapter (good luck). The book is entirely based on ASP, which is fine because that is what I use. This book will not teach you much about coding, but it does teach you how to use some of the built in Dreamweaver components. Not much information on how to create templates and it is not nearly a complete reference of Dreamweaver. So you will have to buy another book after this one. I read that Dreamweaver 4 Bible by Lowery is good, so this will be my next read. The topics on Shopping Cart uses a prebuilt shopping cart written for Dreamweaver 1(in the form of an extension) so it doesn't teach you how to create a shopping cart from scratch. The book teaches you nothing about web page layout. All of the pages are pre-built using the authors templates. The book uses Access as the database. Considering the book is based on ecommerce you would think the author would tell you how to prevent a browser from downloading your entire database, which is what would happen using his tutorial! Also I could not connect to the access database from a browser until I set up permissions for IUSER on my IIS 5.0 server. Author doesn't mention this. It seems that the author doesn't have a lot of experience writing computer books. By the way I contacted the author about a problem I was having, just got a e-mail a few days later saying they were sorry about not getting back to me sooner, but they never answered my question. |
| Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2002-07-20 |
| |
| Excellent concise tutorial but lots of aggravating errors. | Rating: |
| This is a really excellent tutorial which takes you step-by-step through building a site just like this amazon.com one. It's like having someone quickly show you how to use the different features to get you up and running fast. Unfortunately, there are so many errors in the lessons, the message boards at friendsofed.com are jammed with frustrated readers just trying to make their pages work like in the lesson. It's a huge detractor, but luckily the book is still very worth getting. |
| Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2002-05-02 |
| |
| Maybe it helps if you use a PC. | Rating: |
| MAC USERS: One thing that should be pointed out before you buy this book. This book will do you no good whatsoever. Long about page 5 there is a disclaimer that the server applications used as examples in the manual are nor available for the Macintosh. So sorry. Thanks for the money. See ya! At least with most software, you are warned if it'll work for your platform. The Friends of Ed are no friends of mine. |
| Total Votes: 5, Helpful Votes: 4, Date: 2002-03-20 |
| |
| Best Ultradev Book | Rating: |
| From what I've seen this is the only Ultradev book which actually takes you through a complete application using a real relational database and showing you how to insert and update fields based on passing form and URL values. Plus it integrates some email features as well. All important to an online app. The stored procs section is nice to gt just flavor of whats possible there. Hooking it to SQL Server is very easy but converting between Access is a bite. Be sure and check your table names if you do. SQL writes it's table names as dbo.Table in Access it's just Table and UD (ASP/IIS actually) will choke on
this. The Shopping Cart is a bit dated as there are now more powerful carts for UD. Overall the best book for getting you up to speed with a real app, not just a simple single page insert, quickly. |
| Total Votes: 2, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2002-03-19 |
| |
| Pretty Cool | Rating: |
| Very hands on...the only way to learn this stuff. I'd agree with others who say this is one of the best books they have on their shelf. That said, I'd say this book is good for those who already have a basic understanding of databases, ASP and Dreamweaver. Nothing in this book is very in depth but rather an overview of what UD can do and more importantly HOW to do it and WHY. I'd give it 5 stars if there weren't so many really STUPID errors (like missing ='s). There's tons of silliness like that which is another reason why I say the reader really should have some previous knowledge. |
| Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2002-11-15 |
| |
| Some good ideas but confusing | Rating: |
| The things I like about this book is it touches on all the topics that you need to understand to build an ecommerce website and it has some good pratical ideas, although I don't think I would use much in a real ecommerce site. The things I don't like about it is hard to follow. Sometimes the content is missing a step and you have to figure out how to get to where the author is. Second the author doesn't tell you where to save your completed files so as you go from chapter to chapter you could have a hard time finding them. There are also problems if you don't finish one chapter before doing the next, so it is best to go from chapter one until the end, and make sure everything works before going on to the next chapter (good luck). The book is entirely based on ASP, which is fine because that is what I use. This book will not teach you much about coding, but it does teach you how to use some of the built in Dreamweaver components. Not much information on how to create templates and it is not nearly a complete reference of Dreamweaver. So you will have to buy another book after this one. I read that Dreamweaver 4 Bible by Lowery is good, so this will be my next read. The topics on Shopping Cart uses a prebuilt shopping cart written for Dreamweaver 1(in the form of an extension) so it doesn't teach you how to create a shopping cart from scratch. The book teaches you nothing about web page layout. All of the pages are pre-built using the authors templates. The book uses Access as the database. Considering the book is based on ecommerce you would think the author would tell you how to prevent a browser from downloading your entire database, which is what would happen using his tutorial! Also I could not connect to the access database from a browser until I set up permissions for IUSER on my IIS 5.0 server. Author doesn't mention this. It seems that the author doesn't have a lot of experience writing computer books. By the way I contacted the author about a problem I was having, just got a e-mail a few days later saying they were sorry about not getting back to me sooner, but they never answered my question. |
| Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2002-07-20 |
| |
| Excellent concise tutorial but lots of aggravating errors. | Rating: |
| This is a really excellent tutorial which takes you step-by-step through building a site just like this amazon.com one. It's like having someone quickly show you how to use the different features to get you up and running fast. Unfortunately, there are so many errors in the lessons, the message boards at friendsofed.com are jammed with frustrated readers just trying to make their pages work like in the lesson. It's a huge detractor, but luckily the book is still very worth getting. |
| Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2002-05-02 |
| |
| Maybe it helps if you use a PC. | Rating: |
| MAC USERS: One thing that should be pointed out before you buy this book. This book will do you no good whatsoever. Long about page 5 there is a disclaimer that the server applications used as examples in the manual are nor available for the Macintosh. So sorry. Thanks for the money. See ya! At least with most software, you are warned if it'll work for your platform. The Friends of Ed are no friends of mine. |
| Total Votes: 5, Helpful Votes: 4, Date: 2002-03-20 |
| |
| Best Ultradev Book | Rating: |
| From what I've seen this is the only Ultradev book which actually takes you through a complete application using a real relational database and showing you how to insert and update fields based on passing form and URL values. Plus it integrates some email features as well. All important to an online app. The stored procs section is nice to gt just flavor of whats possible there. Hooking it to SQL Server is very easy but converting between Access is a bite. Be sure and check your table names if you do. SQL writes it's table names as dbo.Table in Access it's just Table and UD (ASP/IIS actually) will choke on
this. The Shopping Cart is a bit dated as there are now more powerful carts for UD. Overall the best book for getting you up to speed with a real app, not just a simple single page insert, quickly. |
| Total Votes: 2, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2002-03-19 |
| |
| Pretty Cool | Rating: |
| Very hands on...the only way to learn this stuff. I'd agree with others who say this is one of the best books they have on their shelf. That said, I'd say this book is good for those who already have a basic understanding of databases, ASP and Dreamweaver. Nothing in this book is very in depth but rather an overview of what UD can do and more importantly HOW to do it and WHY. I'd give it 5 stars if there weren't so many really STUPID errors (like missing ='s). There's tons of silliness like that which is another reason why I say the reader really should have some previous knowledge. |
| Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2002-11-15 |
| |
| Some good ideas but confusing | Rating: |
| The things I like about this book is it touches on all the topics that you need to understand to build an ecommerce website and it has some good pratical ideas, although I don't think I would use much in a real ecommerce site. The things I don't like about it is hard to follow. Sometimes the content is missing a step and you have to figure out how to get to where the author is. Second the author doesn't tell you where to save your completed files so as you go from chapter to chapter you could have a hard time finding them. There are also problems if you don't finish one chapter before doing the next, so it is best to go from chapter one until the end, and make sure everything works before going on to the next chapter (good luck). The book is entirely based on ASP, which is fine because that is what I use. This book will not teach you much about coding, but it does teach you how to use some of the built in Dreamweaver components. Not much information on how to create templates and it is not nearly a complete reference of Dreamweaver. So you will have to buy another book after this one. I read that Dreamweaver 4 Bible by Lowery is good, so this will be my next read. The topics on Shopping Cart uses a prebuilt shopping cart written for Dreamweaver 1(in the form of an extension) so it doesn't teach you how to create a shopping cart from scratch. The book teaches you nothing about web page layout. All of the pages are pre-built using the authors templates. The book uses Access as the database. Considering the book is based on ecommerce you would think the author would tell you how to prevent a browser from downloading your entire database, which is what would happen using his tutorial! Also I could not connect to the access database from a browser until I set up permissions for IUSER on my IIS 5.0 server. Author doesn't mention this. It seems that the author doesn't have a lot of experience writing computer books. By the way I contacted the author about a problem I was having, just got a e-mail a few days later saying they were sorry about not getting back to me sooner, but they never answered my question. |
| Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2002-07-20 |
| |
| Excellent concise tutorial but lots of aggravating errors. | Rating: |
| This is a really excellent tutorial which takes you step-by-step through building a site just like this amazon.com one. It's like having someone quickly show you how to use the different features to get you up and running fast. Unfortunately, there are so many errors in the lessons, the message boards at friendsofed.com are jammed with frustrated readers just trying to make their pages work like in the lesson. It's a huge detractor, but luckily the book is still very worth getting. |
| Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2002-05-02 |
| |
| Maybe it helps if you use a PC. | Rating: |
| MAC USERS: One thing that should be pointed out before you buy this book. This book will do you no good whatsoever. Long about page 5 there is a disclaimer that the server applications used as examples in the manual are nor available for the Macintosh. So sorry. Thanks for the money. See ya! At least with most software, you are warned if it'll work for your platform. The Friends of Ed are no friends of mine. |
| Total Votes: 5, Helpful Votes: 4, Date: 2002-03-20 |
| |
| Best Ultradev Book | Rating: |
| From what I've seen this is the only Ultradev book which actually takes you through a complete application using a real relational database and showing you how to insert and update fields based on passing form and URL values. Plus it integrates some email features as well. All important to an online app. The stored procs section is nice to gt just flavor of whats possible there. Hooking it to SQL Server is very easy but converting between Access is a bite. Be sure and check your table names if you do. SQL writes it's table names as dbo.Table in Access it's just Table and UD (ASP/IIS actually) will choke on
this. The Shopping Cart is a bit dated as there are now more powerful carts for UD. Overall the best book for getting you up to speed with a real app, not just a simple single page insert, quickly. |
| Total Votes: 2, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2002-03-19 |
| |
| Pretty Cool | Rating: |
| Very hands on...the only way to learn this stuff. I'd agree with others who say this is one of the best books they have on their shelf. That said, I'd say this book is good for those who already have a basic understanding of databases, ASP and Dreamweaver. Nothing in this book is very in depth but rather an overview of what UD can do and more importantly HOW to do it and WHY. I'd give it 5 stars if there weren't so many really STUPID errors (like missing ='s). There's tons of silliness like that which is another reason why I say the reader really should have some previous knowledge. |
| Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2002-11-15 |
| |
| Some good ideas but confusing | Rating: |
| The things I like about this book is it touches on all the topics that you need to understand to build an ecommerce website and it has some good pratical ideas, although I don't think I would use much in a real ecommerce site. The things I don't like about it is hard to follow. Sometimes the content is missing a step and you have to figure out how to get to where the author is. Second the author doesn't tell you where to save your completed files so as you go from chapter to chapter you could have a hard time finding them. There are also problems if you don't finish one chapter before doing the next, so it is best to go from chapter one until the end, and make sure everything works before going on to the next chapter (good luck). The book is entirely based on ASP, which is fine because that is what I use. This book will not teach you much about coding, but it does teach you how to use some of the built in Dreamweaver components. Not much information on how to create templates and it is not nearly a complete reference of Dreamweaver. So you will have to buy another book after this one. I read that Dreamweaver 4 Bible by Lowery is good, so this will be my next read. The topics on Shopping Cart uses a prebuilt shopping cart written for Dreamweaver 1(in the form of an extension) so it doesn't teach you how to create a shopping cart from scratch. The book teaches you nothing about web page layout. All of the pages are pre-built using the authors templates. The book uses Access as the database. Considering the book is based on ecommerce you would think the author would tell you how to prevent a browser from downloading your entire database, which is what would happen using his tutorial! Also I could not connect to the access database from a browser until I set up permissions for IUSER on my IIS 5.0 server. Author doesn't mention this. It seems that the author doesn't have a lot of experience writing computer books. By the way I contacted the author about a problem I was having, just got a e-mail a few days later saying they were sorry about not getting back to me sooner, but they never answered my question. |
| Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2002-07-20 |
| |
| Excellent concise tutorial but lots of aggravating errors. | Rating: |
| This is a really excellent tutorial which takes you step-by-step through building a site just like this amazon.com one. It's like having someone quickly show you how to use the different features to get you up and running fast. Unfortunately, there are so many errors in the lessons, the message boards at friendsofed.com are jammed with frustrated readers just trying to make their pages work like in the lesson. It's a huge detractor, but luckily the book is still very worth getting. |
| Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2002-05-02 |
| |
| Maybe it helps if you use a PC. | Rating: |
| MAC USERS: One thing that should be pointed out before you buy this book. This book will do you no good whatsoever. Long about page 5 there is a disclaimer that the server applications used as examples in the manual are nor available for the Macintosh. So sorry. Thanks for the money. See ya! At least with most software, you are warned if it'll work for your platform. The Friends of Ed are no friends of mine. |
| Total Votes: 5, Helpful Votes: 4, Date: 2002-03-20 |
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| Best Ultradev Book | Rating: |
| From what I've seen this is the only Ultradev book which actually takes you through a complete application using a real relational database and showing you how to insert and update fields based on passing form and URL values. Plus it integrates some email features as well. All important to an online app. The stored procs section is nice to gt just flavor of whats possible there. Hooking it to SQL Server is very easy but converting between Access is a bite. Be sure and check your table names if you do. SQL writes it's table names as dbo.Table in Access it's just Table and UD (ASP/IIS actually) will choke on
this. The Shopping Cart is a bit dated as there are now more powerful carts for UD. Overall the best book for getting you up to speed with a real app, not just a simple single page insert, quickly. |
| Total Votes: 2, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2002-03-19 |
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| Pretty Cool | Rating: |
| Very hands on...the only way to learn this stuff. I'd agree with others who say this is one of the best books they have on their shelf. That said, I'd say this book is good for those who already have a basic understanding of databases, ASP and Dreamweaver. Nothing in this book is very in depth but rather an overview of what UD can do and more importantly HOW to do it and WHY. I'd give it 5 stars if there weren't so many really STUPID errors (like missing ='s). There's tons of silliness like that which is another reason why I say the reader really should have some previous knowledge. |
| Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2002-11-15 |
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| Some good ideas but confusing | Rating: |
| The things I like about this book is it touches on all the topics that you need to understand to build an ecommerce website and it has some good pratical ideas, although I don't think I would use much in a real ecommerce site. The things I don't like about it is hard to follow. Sometimes the content is missing a step and you have to figure out how to get to where the author is. Second the author doesn't tell you where to save your completed files so as you go from chapter to chapter you could have a hard time finding them. There are also problems if you don't finish one chapter before doing the next, so it is best to go from chapter one until the end, and make sure everything works before going on to the next chapter (good luck). The book is entirely based on ASP, which is fine because that is what I use. This book will not teach you much about coding, but it does teach you how to use some of the built in Dreamweaver components. Not much information on how to create templates and it is not nearly a complete reference of Dreamweaver. So you will have to buy another book after this one. I read that Dreamweaver 4 Bible by Lowery is good, so this will be my next read. The topics on Shopping Cart uses a prebuilt shopping cart written for Dreamweaver 1(in the form of an extension) so it doesn't teach you how to create a shopping cart from scratch. The book teaches you nothing about web page layout. All of the pages are pre-built using the authors templates. The book uses Access as the database. Considering the book is based on ecommerce you would think the author would tell you how to prevent a browser from downloading your entire database, which is what would happen using his tutorial! Also I could not connect to the access database from a browser until I set up permissions for IUSER on my IIS 5.0 server. Author doesn't mention this. It seems that the author doesn't have a lot of experience writing computer books. By the way I contacted the author about a problem I was having, just got a e-mail a few days later saying they were sorry about not getting back to me sooner, but they never answered my question. |
| Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2002-07-20 |
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| Excellent concise tutorial but lots of aggravating errors. | Rating: |
| This is a really excellent tutorial which takes you step-by-step through building a site just like this amazon.com one. It's like having someone quickly show you how to use the different features to get you up and running fast. Unfortunately, there are so many errors in the lessons, the message boards at friendsofed.com are jammed with frustrated readers just trying to make their pages work like in the lesson. It's a huge detractor, but luckily the book is still very worth getting. |
| Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 2002-05-02 |
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| Maybe it helps if you use a PC. | Rating: |
| MAC USERS: One thing that should be pointed out before you buy this book. This book will do you no good whatsoever. Long about page 5 there is a disclaimer that the server applications used as examples in the manual are nor available for the Macintosh. So sorry. Thanks for the money. See ya! At least with most software, you are warned if it'll work for your platform. The Friends of Ed are no friends of mine. |
| Total Votes: 5, Helpful Votes: 4, Date: 2002-03-20 |
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| Best Ultradev Book | Rating: |
| From what I've seen this is the only Ultradev book which actually takes you through a complete application using a real relational database and showing you how to insert and update fields based on passing form and URL values. Plus it integrates some email features as well. All important to an online app. The stored procs section is nice to gt just flavor of whats possible there. Hooking it to SQL Server is very easy but converting between Access is a bite. Be sure and check your table names if you do. SQL writes it's table names as dbo.Table in Access it's just Table and UD (ASP/IIS actually) will choke on
this. The Shopping Cart is a bit dated as there are now more powerful carts for UD. Overall the best book for getting you up to speed with a real app, not just a simple single page insert, quickly. |
| Total Votes: 2, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2002-03-19 |
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