Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.
The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted by | Date submitted |
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Printed | Page xiv 3rd paragraph |
"Finally, thanks to David Pogue whose unflagging enthusiasm and endurance is (sic) inspiring;" |
Peter Ronai, MD | Sep 26, 2009 |
Section 11.5.2, point 8 | Phone, not email |
Paolo Miggiano | Oct 16, 2009 | |
Printed | Page p. 940 Step 6 |
After typing in a new product record and submitting I get the error Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ';' in C:\xampp_lite\xampp\htdocs\cosmo_shop\index.php on line 55. But just looking at index.php I see a missing paren. Old code is (line 55) $totalPages_rsProducts = ceil($totalRows_rsProducts/$maxRows_rsProducts = 12; so I changed the code by adding 2 right parens and 1 left paren to make the expression work: $totalPages_rsProducts = ceil($totalRows_rsProducts/($maxRows_rsProducts = 12)); Now the program works fine. The database records were added correctly just the goto page was wrong. I don't know how the index.php file got messed up - probably from the previous tutorial server behavior insert. |
Kelly Maurice | Jul 05, 2011 |
Printed | Page 5 Paragraph 4 |
"...whether HTML or XHTML is the best (sic) approach." |
Peter Ronai, MD | Sep 26, 2009 |
Printed | Page 5 Third paragraph |
"Part 5, Appendixes...The last two appendices..." |
Peter Ronai, MD | Sep 26, 2009 |
Printed | Page 7 Note: (paragraph 2) |
"Even more importantly (sic), you'll learn about...." |
Peter Ronai, MD | Sep 26, 2009 |
Printed | Page 10 line 3 |
"...(like 2 and 3-column layouts)..." |
Peter Ronai, MD | Sep 26, 2009 |
Printed | Page 11 5th paragraph, line 4 |
"quotes" should read "quotation marks." (A quote is the text between the quotation marks.) |
Dr_Pete | Nov 03, 2009 |
Printed | Page 11 Fourth bullet |
The book reads as follows. "To close an empty tag, you must include a backslash at the end of the tag, like this: <br />." The character is a forward slash, not a backslash. Based upon my research, "backslash" should be changed to "forward slash" in the text. |
William Abel | Feb 10, 2010 |
Printed | Page 11 4th bullet |
The book reads as follows. "To close an empty tag, you must include a backslash at the end of the tag, like this: <br />." The character is a forward slash, not a backslash. Based upon my research, "backslash" should be changed to "forward slash" in the text. |
Anonymous | Feb 17, 2010 |
Page 16 Note: |
The link www.sawmac.com/missing/dw8/appc.pdf isn't valid... |
Josh | Mar 01, 2010 | |
Printed | Page 20 Second paragraph |
..."words or phrases that appear inside of (sic) a larger paragraph or heading." |
Peter Ronai, MD | Sep 26, 2009 |
Printed | Page 22 UP TO SPEED, First paragraph |
"More importantly, you can't create..." |
Peter Ronai, MD | Sep 26, 2009 |
Printed | Page 23 Figure 1-4 caption |
"Use the headline tags...like (sic) you would if..." |
Peter Ronai, MD | Sep 26, 2009 |
Printed | Page 23 Last Paragraph |
"...use the <div> and <span> tags (see page 18)." |
Peter Ronai, MD | Sep 26, 2009 |
Printed | Page 24 Fifth paragraph |
"...make their software behave like (sic) browsers did circa 1999..." |
Peter Ronai, MD | Sep 26, 2009 |
Printed | Page 29 Paragraph 5 ?Value |
"...an URL..." |
Peter Ronai, MD | Sep 26, 2009 |
Printed | Page 33 Middle of page: ? href, also Note: at bottm of page |
See my previous comment about "an URL." |
Peter Ronai, MD | Sep 26, 2009 |
Printed | Page 35 First line after "Creating an Inline Style" |
"...(just like the ones on page 27)..." |
Peter Ronai, MD | Sep 26, 2009 |
Printed | Page 36 Fifth line |
"...enclose all of the CSS code inside quotes (sic)." |
Peter Ronai, MD | Sep 26, 2009 |
Printed | Page 37 Item 3. |
"Press Enter(Return) to create a new line, hit the Tab key, and type color :red;" |
Peter Ronai, MD | Sep 26, 2009 |
Printed | Page 37 Fig. 1-11 legend |
"by selection the Reset option" should read "by selecting the Reset option." |
Dr_Pete | Nov 03, 2009 |
Printed | Page 37 Last sentence on page |
In the last sentence "...Library items (Chapter 17), Templates... |
Anonymous | Oct 18, 2010 |
Printed | Page 43 "Terms Worth Knowing About" column 2 line 2 |
"The remote, or live, site is a mirror image of the local site" should read "The remote, or live, site is a duplicate of the local site." If it were a mirror image, everything would be reversed. |
Dr_Pete | Nov 03, 2009 |
Printed | Page 45 Note: |
"...you need a little help from the <span> tag (page 18)." |
Peter Ronai, MD | Sep 26, 2009 |
Printed | Page 48 Paragraph 5 |
"See page 96 for more on this topic." |
Peter Ronai, MD | Sep 26, 2009 |
Printed | Page 50 6. On the Dreamweaver Welcome screen... |
Can't access the Welcome screen while a file is open (as is the case when the reader gets to step 6). The file has to be closed out to access the Welcome screen. |
Dr_Pete | Nov 03, 2009 |
Printed | Page 51 Fourth line from bottom of page |
Another example of "inside of" ("of" is redundant). |
Peter Ronai, MD | Sep 26, 2009 |
Printed | Page 55 Line 7 |
"...it covers the brief nanosecond..." |
Peter Ronai, MD | Sep 26, 2009 |
Printed | Page 59 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION, line 4 |
"...where child selectors can't be beat (sic)." |
Peter Ronai, MD | Sep 26, 2009 |
Printed | Page 64 Step 21 |
"stsyle" should read "style" |
Anonymous | Sep 19, 2009 |
Printed | Page 70 last paragraph, line 1 |
After closing the New CSS Rule window, the "CSS Rule definition" window appears. |
Dr_Pete | Nov 03, 2009 |
Printed | Page 72 Figure 1-35 |
Driving Directions |
Dr_Pete | Nov 03, 2009 |
Printed | Page 97 2nd paragraph, line 2 |
"...much like an outline has headings..." |
Dr_Pete | Nov 03, 2009 |
Printed | Page 98 First paragraph, line 8 |
"These days, however, Dreamweaver's table feature is a much more superior method..." |
Dr_Pete | Nov 03, 2009 |
Printed | Page 102 First Note, line 6 |
"See page 75 for more on the <br> tag and how to get rid of these pesky critters" |
Dr_Pete | Nov 03, 2009 |
Printed | Page 152 Figure 4-22 |
In the Figure 4-22 screenshot, the Color should be #F93 for Top and Bottom, not #FF9933. This change will make the screenshot agree with the text in step 6 above. |
James Welch | May 26, 2009 |
Printed | Page 155-202 All |
Pages 155 through 202 are completely missing from the book. They have not been torn out our cut out. It appears as though the book was bound without those pages. |
Kinuyo Fujikawa | Sep 27, 2009 |
Printed | Page 191 Figure 5-17, legend, line 13 |
"A pop-up menu's overall look and placement is controlled by..." |
Dr_Pete | Nov 03, 2009 |
Printed | Page 193 3rd paragraph (first in section 'Changing the width of menus and buttons') |
page reference for info on ems states 133 - should be 135. |
onelastbidder | Aug 06, 2010 |
Printed | Page 196 Item 2, line 2, 3 |
"...and then clicking the OK (Select on Macs) button..." |
Dr_Pete | Nov 03, 2009 |
Printed | Page 197 Item 8, lines 2, 3 and under Formatting Links lines 1,2 |
"...and the logo still has a big blue outline around it." |
Dr_Pete | Nov 03, 2009 |
Printed | Page 199 Step 1 |
Another minor suggestion: in Step 1, you say "...click right below the Chia Vet logo..." To Windows users, click right means to click the right button (which opens a long menu). I suggest deleting the word "right" so that it reads "...click below the Chia Vet logo, inside the grassy background image..." |
James Welch | May 26, 2009 |
Printed | Page 199 Paragraph numbered 1; Figure 5-20 |
Paragraph 1 says to "...click right below the Chia Vet logo inside the grassy backround image (circled in Figre 5-20)" and Figure 5-20 asks "What's that strange ship steering wheel (to the right of the circled area),.... |
Peter Blunt | Jul 16, 2010 |
Printed | Page 202 Entire page |
Printing faults. |
Barry Hughes | Sep 10, 2010 |
Printed | Page 204 Item 2, lines 2 and 3 |
Line 2 |
Dr_Pete | Nov 03, 2009 |
Printed | Page 207 15 |
Hi, In prder to vertically align ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul.li with ul.MenuBarHorizontal ul (at margin-left 15px)I had to use margin-left -15px and not 0px. Logically, this seems to make sense in order to align or is it my mistake. Thanks - by the way - BRILLIANT book. |
Naresh Amruth | Oct 16, 2009 |
Printed | Page 220 1st paragraph, line 3 |
"oppositepage" should be "opposite page" (missing space) |
WayneD8 | Sep 20, 2009 |
Printed | Page 223 Figure 6-6 |
Callouts for "Select transparency color" and "Add color to transparency" point to the wrong icons; they should be switched. |
WayneD8 | Sep 20, 2009 |
Printed | Page 291 Step 7, second sentence |
In step 7, selecting white from the color box is written twice. Delete the second sentence: "From the Color box select white." |
James Welch | May 30, 2009 |
Printed | Page 291 Step #7 of instructions |
The instruction redundantly tells the reader to select the color "white" from the color box. |
George Northrop | Feb 04, 2010 |
Printed | Page 386 Point 4 of the list |
Instead of: "On the CSS panel, click the "Create new style" button" it would be better to put: "On the CSS panel, click the "New CSS rule" button" |
Gian Piero de Bellis | Feb 08, 2010 |
Printed | Page 465 Fist paragraph, 2nd line |
"Social Security Number. This option requires three numbers, a hyphen, two numbers, a hyphen and three more numbers..." |
Scott B. | Feb 08, 2010 |
Printed | Page 483 Last paragraph |
Toward the end of the first sentence (see he Note on page 456? |
kjd | Mar 17, 2010 |
Printed | Page 511 2nd paragraph of step 15 |
2nd paragraph of step 15 starting with "Repeat steps 1-4 to add another Spry text validation field" should be a numbered step in the tutorial. |
David Sawyer McFarland |
Aug 29, 2010 |
Printed | Page 512 5th paragraph under "Content inside the panel", last sentence. |
Last line: "For example, .CollapsiblePanel p is a descendant selector for formatting paragraphs inside an accordion panel." |
Scott B. | Mar 03, 2010 |
Printed | Page 651 First paragraph |
The text: |
lemuel | Aug 23, 2010 |
Printed | Page 724 2nd Paragraph |
second sentence reads... "The copyright notice item"... I believe that the example is using something that would better be referred to as "The recent Chia VEt announcements item"... |
Tom Stratton | May 25, 2009 |
Printed | Page 767 step 11 |
I had been using the context menu (via right click) instead of the insert menu up until this point in the tutorial. When I tried to do this with the "Optional Region" it worked incorrectly every time - the optional region ended up being created AT THE POINT I CLICKED THE MOUSE instead of for the current selection (the Div). Only when I clicked on the thick blue line surrounding the selection did it function as it is supposed to. |
Tom Stratton | May 25, 2009 |
Printed | Page 823 Figure 23-25 |
Shouldn't the illustration in Figure 23-25 only include the record sets for productName, price, and inventory? |
Anonymous | Dec 04, 2010 |
Printed | Page 823 2nd paragraph |
On step 11, there should be another line of code after |
Cliff Glover | Dec 05, 2010 |
Page 895 Step 14 |
The step says to click OK to add the new variable (referring to varProduct), then add some additional language to the SQL box. However, the SQL language must be added first before clicking OK. Otherwise, DW doesn't recognize varProduct as a valid variable name, because it hasn't yet been identified in the SQL box. The sentences in bold should be reversed. |
Peter McDonald | Apr 22, 2010 | |
Printed | Page 900 fig. 23-35 |
In the figure the headings for the various entries appear. e.g. |
Federico | Oct 14, 2011 |
Printed | Page 901 step 7. apply the recordset to the page |
Creating the second recordset rsCategories on the "index.php" page , causes the error: |
Neil Aubrey | Oct 31, 2010 |
Printed | Page 901 step 7. apply the recordset to the page |
Creating the second recordset rsCategories on the "index.php" page , causes the error: |
Neil Aubrey | Oct 31, 2010 |
Printed | Page 940-948 Section "Building a Page for Editing Database Records" |
Either I am out of my mind, or the tutorial in this section is seriously flawed. (And I do consider the first one possible.) I have gone through the tutorial 3 times, with the same result: (a) The category and vendor menu drop-downs do not fill out on the form and (b) when I update a product, ALL information on it disappears from the Web page. And (c): In the database, the updates take nicely, except CategoryID and VendorID take on a value of 0. |
Anonymous | Jul 22, 2010 |
Page 980 Step 17 |
Step finishes by saying to click OK. However, that closes the box when in fact there is one more step (18) needed to be completed before clicking OK and closing the box. This caused me some confusion when I closed the box in step 17, then wasn't sure where to complete step 18. |
Anonymous | Apr 23, 2010 |