I now have four books on Dreamweaver. This is my latest acquisition that I bought the old fashion way, through a bookstore, which gave me time to really preview the numerous books on this top selling software. The reason why I bought this book was because of the additional detail that you don't find in the other books. It's not just a 'what do the buttons do' software book. If you are only interested in building static web pages then another book may do, but if you are wanting to add dynamic pages, where the viewer inputs data into forms, then that's a whole other level of web building that most books don't cover. If your a novice and haven't had schooling in Web and Server applications (ASP,Coldfusion, etc)and database applications, this will help bring you up to speed. I applaud the layout and content that these authors have created. It focuses on building web applications with Dreamweaver MX, not just web pages, and definately fulfills a need.