Hello all
I foolishly purchased the Wrox "Beginning Dreamweaver MX 2004" book from Amazon instead of the "Beginning Dreamweaver MX". I'm actuallt running Dreamweaver MX ans was wondering what the big differences are.
Basically, can I still use the 2004 version book I bought or do I have to splash out on the correct book?

Kind regards
Andy McGrath

Hi Andy,

Have you ever tried using an Office XP book with Office 2000, or vice versa? If you have, you'll find that things are similar with Dreamweaver.

Many concepts in Dreamweaver MX are still present in MX 2004. Things like the Code Editor, database connections, server behaviors, panels and a zillion other things are roughly the same in both versions.
However, some other concepts have changed dramatically. For example, CSS rendering in MX 2004 is much much better in 2004 than it was in MX.

This means that you'll be able to follow along with a lot of chapters, but will run into problems with chapters that focus on new functionality.
If you're a bit of an adventurist, it shouldn't be too hard. However, if you're new to Dreamweaver and new to web / asp / html / css etc you may have a hard time.

You could download the trial version of MX 2004. You can work with it for a month. If you've finished the book by then, you can then use MX for Web development. IMO, just switching between the two programs isn't too hard

HtH,

Imar

P.S. Buying "Beginning Dreamweaver MX 2004" is never a foolish thing.... ;)


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Imar Spaanjaars
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