I have contributed to a few books on Adobe and Apple products over the years.
Dreamweaver CS4 | Adobe GoLive | Premiere Elements |
Adobe Audition| Others
I was the lead author for the Digital Classroom Dreamweaver CS4 book. Most of the book is based on updates from a Dreamweaver CS3 book by Fred Gerantabee, both Fred and Greg Heald from Aquent were instrumental in getting this version out the door.
My goal for the book was to promote an understanding of the concepts of HTML and CSS in addition to providing the traditional step-by-step instructions for the user.
So far, the book has been well received. It is well into its second printing and one year after its publication date it continues to hover around the top 3 spots for Dreamweaver books on Amazon.
I worked on various titles in the Classroom in a Book series over a period of 3 or 4 years.
This was one of the last projects I worked on for the CIB series. The project remains notable to me as the first time I had to write about CSS and HTML.
Released in 2004, this project gave me an excuse to immerse myself in digital video again. Additionally it was the first book for which I had complete "creative control" meaning I wrote all the content and created most of the project files.
I consider this my first "real" book project. I ended up writing about 70% of the book with my colleague Luis Mendes covering the other 30%. I had a good understanding of audio basics from training I recieved in college, but I was definitely stretching my knowledge in terms of the software. Working on this book made me understand how difficult the writing process is, but satisfying as well.
I am the author of a number of other chapters in both the Classroom in a Book (CS2)and Digital Classroom series. These chapters include "Adding multimedia to a PDF" in the Acrobat 7 CIB, "Working with Images" in the InDesign CS2 CIB and "Using Smart Objects" in Photoshop CS3 Digital Classroom. I was also a technical editor on the Flash and Dreamweaver CS3 Digital Classroom series.