Visual Communication on the Web was written between January 2011 and May 2012. All of the exercises were written and screen shots were produced originally using Dreamweaver (and a little bit of Photoshop) version 5.5. In May 2012 I used an early release, 30-day trial of the Creative Suite version 6 in order to produce screen shots (and alter the text where appropriate) for the most current version of the software.
You can use either version of the Creative Suite when using this textbook. Though there are new features in both Photoshop and Dreamweaver, for the purposes of the exercises in the 14 chapters of Visual Communication on the Web, almost nothing is different between the two versions. The user interface is a little different. Photoshop in CS6 is set on a black window that fills the screen. Dreamweaver menus take on a more “PC-looking” appearance where buttons and pull-down menus have hard, sunken edges, rather than the CS5 bubbly “Mac” buttons and pull-down menus.
I made only one modification in the text in order to accommodate the CS6 version of the software. That occurred in Chapter 6, Exercise 3 (which is sort of funny because I never use the Dreamweaver Files panel to connect to my server).
The e-book allows you to choose which version of the software you are using. The printed copy is published for users of CS6. The images that accompany CS5 will be viewable on the Routledge website.
Happy coding!
Visual Communication on the Web 