I agree with Ancient Icon, I am a senior developer my self, but this book did not help me at all, I tried the first example myself for few times, and I never got it right. I purchased this book to make simple banners and ads for my websites, however I could not learn anything from it. Publisher is telling about a lot what you can learn from this book, but non is true. At the end I asked myself who is the dummy? readers or writers?