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Thanks for all the response. I guess I am a visual learner, and was hoping for a more in depth video tutorial. I have a harder time focusing on text book learning. Now that I know that is what I am going to have to deal with, I will just buckle down.

Thanks again.

Hi, Andy,
To add a bit to Chris's response:
The video demos on the book's DVD are intended to show the features of the application in action and do not necessarily represent the actual exercises in each chapter.
In some chapters, the video demo is referenced two or three times, as various features get introduced in the book. In most cases, the video lessons are referenced early in each chapter and are intended to show some of the features that will be discussed in the chapter, not necessarily the actual exercises.

We deeply apologize for any confusion this may introduce to you and the rest of our readers.

--Steve Weiss, executive editor
O'Reilly Media

Hi,

The video lessons don't cover everything covered in the book. That's why only the section on hyperlinks is covered in the video lesson for Chapter 3.
It does say Lesson 3: Adding Text and Images at the bottom of the video, so I could see how that would be confusing.

Hello andyredmon,

I'm very sorry about the delay in response. The '36 Employees Participating' just shows how many of us are registered here to help customers. It is not an indication of who is online or offline. I am unable to answer your question myself, but I will alert someone to this issue and have them answer you shortly.

At the top of the page it says there are 36 employees participating, where is everyone, I need some help here, I got really bogged down over the whole memorial day weekend, trying to push through lesson 3, I am feeling like there should be more here.

I am sorry that you are frustrated with the video tutorials. As it says in the book, to play them you need to have at least version 8 of the Adobe Flash Player, which you can download for free at http://www.adobe.com/support/flashpla.... Once you open the index.html file, you should be able to easily access all of the videos with the left-hand menu that appears in the Player window.

The book covers both the Mac and Windows versions of the software, and the videos play equally well on both platforms. The differences between the Mac and Windows versions of Dreamweaver are relatively minor; to deal with those disparities, the screenshots in the book alternate (by chapter) between the Mac and Windows versions.

Please contact me directly at edie@oreilly.com if you continue to experience problems with the video tutorials. I will do everything I can to help you get them running properly on your PC.

Edie Freedman
Managing Editor, Dynamic Learning Series
O'Reilly Media