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Books : Computing & Internet : Web Development : Web Design : Applications : Adobe GoLive
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Real World Adobe GoLive 5 is a big book on how to use Adobe's Web site authoring package to meet real design needs in the real world. This is not a take-you-by-the-hands class on GoLive, although it does cover application basics in the first section. Rather, it gives you solutions to real problems, and the authors expect you to have some familiarity with GoLive before you start.The first of four main sections covers the basics: the interface, setting up GoLive preferences and how the program works. Section two is all about "Pages": the visual page editor, the text editor and everything you can do with both. "Sites", section three, covers GoLive's excellent site-management tools; and section four discusses advanced topics such as JavaScript, DHTML, cascading style sheets, and more.
The book is more like an extensive reference source than a tutorial. Virtually every feature is explained and can be looked up in the index, but you won't find a concise chapter on how to build an awesome site from a to b. This is the kind of book that you use as a desk reference, looking up topics as needed. Often, the examples cited are explained and illustrated more clearly than in Adobe's documentation.
One drawback is the lack of a CD-ROM. Examples, projects, source code, code snippets, animation--even a demo version of GoLive itself--would more than justify a CD-ROM. On the other hand, there are plenty of screen shots and sidebars.
GoLive 5 has matured into a powerful tool and has become a valuable member of the Adobe product family. Real World Adobe GoLive 5 is an important asset and reference book for the GoLive user. --Mike Caputo
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Adobe GoLive 5.0 Classroom in a Book deftly guides the new user through the intricacies of Web design using Adobe's Web authoring package. The Classroom in a Book series itself has become a standard against which others are judged, and this addition to the series is a fine example.With a CD-ROM containing all of the project and media files, and each of the dozen or so chapters written in a concise and clear manner, the book makes it easy for users new to GoLive to climb the curve and gain a high level of proficiency in a relatively short period of time. Most chapters have been updated to showcase the new features of version 5.
There are over 12 chapters, beginning with application basics and how to preview work in a real Web browser, up through the basics of Web design, the use of tables and frames, forms and cascading style sheets, and on to global management of large Web sites. The more experienced Web designer will probably not find much new information here, but an experienced designer new to GoLive will appreciate this resource.
Each chapter ends with a series of review questions and answers, and each chapter builds on the chapters that came before, making the book suitable for a formal training environment as well as for someone learning on their own. The only drawback is the lack of a demo version of GoLive on the CD. It is available on Adobe's site, but why not save someone the trouble of downloading it?
There are few areas of computer technology as dynamic and competitive as Web design software. Standards are anything but, plug-ins proliferate, and even the core coding language, HTML, is constantly evolving. Designers must maintain a constant state of training and learning, and any software publisher who maintains a solid educational program wins the hearts of their customers. Fortunately, we have the Classroom in a Book series to help keep us ahead of the wave. --Mike Caputo
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GoLive 5 Visual Insight is part of a series from Coriolis, which is aimed at novice to intermediate users, particularly those who appreciate terse instructions alongside step-by-step screenshots. The goal is to offer practical lessons that users can put to work right away, in a visual presentation that, hopefully, makes even complicated tasks seem easy.For the most part, the authors have succeeded. First, they introduce the GoLive work environment, with all its inspectors and docking palettes, and then take readers slowly through the process of creating pages, site organisation and using images, links, tables and frames. And they introduce JavaScript actions and Cascading Style Sheets, all in the first 11 chapters. The remainder of the book walks readers through five projects, each dealing with a specific task, for example, making page templates or using JavaScript actions to create alert boxes.
Unfortunately, the situations in these projects are exactly as "real-life" as promised. For example, one JavaScript project shows how to make clickable text that changes the background colour of the page--readers must imagine their own rationale for using such a trick on their own sites. Another problem, some characters in the source code are incorrect: a few times, squares appear in HTML where double quotation marks should be. Although one doesn't need to know HTML in order to use GoLive and, in fact, the book doesn't show the source code very often, these errors could confuse readers.
These negatives aside, the book does include a handy pull-out list of keyboard shortcuts and a thorough index. And its ultra-slow pacing may appeal to those who feel overwhelmed by all the buttons and inspector options in GoLive. --Angelynn Grant