The web: internet, surfing, websites, HTML, Dreamweaver, CSS
and on and on and on. Aargh!
I am not an internet website designer. I can do it but it does not come easy to
me. I need all the help I can get and I
need it put in a simplified format that I can understand. There is nothing worse than trying to understand
any web technology when it is written in Geek language.
Thank God that Adobe Press has come out with two books that
are written and formatted so a non-web head like me can understand them and use
them.
I’m talking abut Adobe’s new Classroom In A Book books on
Fireworks CS5 and Flash CS5. I’m the first
to admit that being uncomfortable and intimidated with both programs I tend to pooh-pooh
and at any mention of their use in websites I’ve blown them off as ‘too much
animation” or “I like a ‘clean’ and ‘easy-to-navigate’ website.” “Who needs all
the distractions and needless bells and whistles both programs provide.”
I’m a fraud. I want
to use the programs, I want to understand them and become proficient with them
and with the help of Adobe’s Classroom In A Book books on Flash and Fireworks I
finally feel as if I can accomplish what I want.
Both books offer careful, concise and simple instructions
laid out step-by-step that walk you through the programs. Screen captures and
examples make each easier to understand and both include a DVD that provides projects,
tutorials and other helpful information to train you to use the programs.
Now that’s my kind of books-written in ‘make it simple to
understand’ language. Watch out
internet! I’m armed and ready! Bring it
on Fireworks and Flash! With Adobe’s
Classroom In A Book I’m ready to take you on!