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GoLive CyberStudio 3.1 for Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) |
| GoLive CyberStudio has been called the best Mac program yet for HTML layout, design, and Website management-and it's just become even better. Version 3 offers a host of new features, including Dynamic HTML, Advanced Site Management, WYSIWYG Cascading Style Sheets, and ready-to-use JavaScript Actions. GoLive CyberStudio 3 for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide is the easiest way to learn CyberStudio. Written clearly and packed with screenshots, it quickly takes you right where you need to be, whether you're starting with the basics or diving into the more advanced features. Anyone creating or maintaining Web pages with CyberStudio will appreciate the graphicscentric Visual QuickStart Guide format and full coverage of the program. Fully revised and updated by the author of GoLive CyberStudio 2 for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide. Extensive update of topselling previous edition The graphics heavy format of the Visual QuickStart Guide fits perfectly with CyberStudio's graphical interface CyberStudio is ideal for Macbased PageMaker and Quark users looking to jump into Web design
If you need to learn how to use GoLive's CyberStudio 3.1 for Windows and Macintosh in a short amount of time, get this Visual QuickStart Guide. Before explaining the essential features of this Web-authoring and site-management tool, author Shelly Brisbin guides you through Web basics and Web publishing. She makes you feel comfortable in the program by having you navigate the CyberStudio interface and understand its Toolbar, Palette, Inspector, Color Palette, site-management tools, preferences, and Web database (of HTML tags). As you set up your first Web pages, you specify preferences, add and format text, add lists, run a spell check on your work, and run the find-and-replace feature. Next, you design your pages by working with layout grids, images and image maps, lines, spacers, line breaks, tables, scrolling marquees, and the Custom tab. You also learn how to create remote and local links, add anchors, and work with forms, frames, plug-ins, JavaScript, Java, ActiveX, style sheets, regular and Dynamic HTML, and color. Finally, you build a site, set preferences, add resources, use the Site View, manipulate site objects and links, and troubleshoot sites. The book also provides guidance on publishing your site via built-in File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and stand-alone FTP and on exporting your site in special circumstances. An appendix outlines the options on the Basic, Forms, Head, Frames, Site, and CyberObjects tabs of the Palette. --Kathleen Caster
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Publisher:
Peachpit Press
Author:
Shelly Brisbin
Release Date: 1999-06
ISBN/EAN: 0201353741 / 9780201353747
New Price: $1.79 /
Used Price: $0.33 /
Collectible Price: $18.99
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Average Rating: 2.0
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| This is by far the worst computer book I have ever read | Rating:  | | It was filled from cover to cover with useless information, typeos, and omited several key operations and topics. Completely useless! | | Total Votes: 2, Helpful Votes: 2, Date: 1999-08-22 | | | | WHAT A BOMB!! | Rating: | | The following is an excerpt taken directly from this book."3. In the Label field, GoLive Inc. with text of your own,describing the page or site the visitor will see when that item is chosen. (pp189"). It is an example of the many confusing and poorly edited instructions. In addition, there are numerous typos. And, if that isn't bad enough... there isn't any real depth to the instructions that ARE clearly written. It appears that this book was rushed to the publisher without any editor involved. I hope the 4.0 version (by the same author) VQG for GoLive shapes up!! I depend on these books which usually are quite good. This one sadly bombs!! | | Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 1999-08-02 | | | | It got me started just fine. | Rating:  | | I agree with the other reviewers in that the book lacked depth. However, as a newcomer to web design it got me started and taught me the basics that I need to know. Before CyberStudio I did layout in plain HTML (which is helpful with CyberStudio) but I was not familiar with a lot of the tools and info boxes that are common in graphics programs. A CD with some Gifs and pages would have been a nice plus. | | Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 1999-02-23 | | | | Incomplete and does not fully explain mentioned features | Rating: | | Manuals that accompany detailed programs like Cyberstudio are in almost all circumstances poorly organised and written, which is why some one would purchase a third party reference manual such as this. I have been studying Cyberstudio for some time using both this book and the official manual and have found that both are needed. The manual has FAR more detail than the quick start guide and in many areas simply explains things better. Having said that there are areas where the quick start guide explains things more CLEARLY, but leaves many of the details needed to properly use the functions out. I have found the quick start guide lacking in detail and poorly illustrated. Golive must be congratulated for thoroughly re-writing the 3rd edition manual from the 2nd edition, which was a joke. Not surprising considering these manuals were written in Germany by Germans who had a basic understanding of the English language and had no sense of how a beginner would first interpret the program (it was written in Germany) This quick start guide does not in any way replace the user manual and I would only recommend it if you need CLEARER explanations than what the user manual offers. You will have to read the quick start giude next to the user manual at the same time to get the full picture in how to use this wonderful program. | | Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 1999-01-03 | | | | Not enough tips and techniques, too many mistakes! | Rating: | | I purchased this book basically because it was the only 3rd party guide written on CyberStudio 3. I was disappointed by the general lack of specific tips and techniques about using CS3. Some real life examples using actual web sites would have been much more helpful than the generic tips that are given. Maybe my expectations were too high, after all this a QuickStart guide and doesn't necessarily claim to get into too much detail. The lack of detailed examples would have forgivable if the guide was well-written and easy to follow. Unfortunately, it wasn't. There were many times when using this book that I became confused about exactly what I was supposed to do. In fact, there were a few places in the book where the information was just plain wrong. There were also an unusually high number of typos. I would say to anyone considering purchasing this book, if you really need a 3rd party guide to CS3 and you can't wait, purchase it at your own risk. If not, wait for IDG Books to come out with the inevitable "CyberStudio for Dummies" or MacWorld's "CyberStudio Bible". | | Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 1998-11-12 | | | | This is by far the worst computer book I have ever read | Rating: | | It was filled from cover to cover with useless information, typeos, and omited several key operations and topics. Completely useless! | | Total Votes: 2, Helpful Votes: 2, Date: 1999-08-22 | | | | WHAT A BOMB!! | Rating: | | The following is an excerpt taken directly from this book."3. In the Label field, GoLive Inc. with text of your own,describing the page or site the visitor will see when that item is chosen. (pp189"). It is an example of the many confusing and poorly edited instructions. In addition, there are numerous typos. And, if that isn't bad enough... there isn't any real depth to the instructions that ARE clearly written. It appears that this book was rushed to the publisher without any editor involved. I hope the 4.0 version (by the same author) VQG for GoLive shapes up!! I depend on these books which usually are quite good. This one sadly bombs!! | | Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 1999-08-02 | | | | It got me started just fine. | Rating: | | I agree with the other reviewers in that the book lacked depth. However, as a newcomer to web design it got me started and taught me the basics that I need to know. Before CyberStudio I did layout in plain HTML (which is helpful with CyberStudio) but I was not familiar with a lot of the tools and info boxes that are common in graphics programs. A CD with some Gifs and pages would have been a nice plus. | | Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 1999-02-23 | | | | Incomplete and does not fully explain mentioned features | Rating: | | Manuals that accompany detailed programs like Cyberstudio are in almost all circumstances poorly organised and written, which is why some one would purchase a third party reference manual such as this. I have been studying Cyberstudio for some time using both this book and the official manual and have found that both are needed. The manual has FAR more detail than the quick start guide and in many areas simply explains things better. Having said that there are areas where the quick start guide explains things more CLEARLY, but leaves many of the details needed to properly use the functions out. I have found the quick start guide lacking in detail and poorly illustrated. Golive must be congratulated for thoroughly re-writing the 3rd edition manual from the 2nd edition, which was a joke. Not surprising considering these manuals were written in Germany by Germans who had a basic understanding of the English language and had no sense of how a beginner would first interpret the program (it was written in Germany) This quick start guide does not in any way replace the user manual and I would only recommend it if you need CLEARER explanations than what the user manual offers. You will have to read the quick start giude next to the user manual at the same time to get the full picture in how to use this wonderful program. | | Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 1999-01-03 | | | | Not enough tips and techniques, too many mistakes! | Rating: | | I purchased this book basically because it was the only 3rd party guide written on CyberStudio 3. I was disappointed by the general lack of specific tips and techniques about using CS3. Some real life examples using actual web sites would have been much more helpful than the generic tips that are given. Maybe my expectations were too high, after all this a QuickStart guide and doesn't necessarily claim to get into too much detail. The lack of detailed examples would have forgivable if the guide was well-written and easy to follow. Unfortunately, it wasn't. There were many times when using this book that I became confused about exactly what I was supposed to do. In fact, there were a few places in the book where the information was just plain wrong. There were also an unusually high number of typos. I would say to anyone considering purchasing this book, if you really need a 3rd party guide to CS3 and you can't wait, purchase it at your own risk. If not, wait for IDG Books to come out with the inevitable "CyberStudio for Dummies" or MacWorld's "CyberStudio Bible". | | Total Votes: 0, Helpful Votes: 0, Date: 1998-11-12 | | |
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