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Adobe GoLive 4 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide provides thorough coverage of all the palettes and tools in the GoLive interface, as well as all the new features of the application. This is the first cross-platform edition of a GoLive VQS, and will appeal to all those eagerly awaiting the release of the Windows version of the software.
Step-by-step explanation of Adobe GoLive's tools for designing dynamic Web pages
Previous, Mac-only edition sold over 10,000 copies
Detailed coverage of all the new features to get busy professionals up and running quickly

Adobe GoLive 4 for Macintosh and Windows is a clear and thorough introduction to Adobe's complex Web authoring application. Although the text skimps on the basics of HTML and the Web, beginners will feel comfortable with its step-by-step approach to GoLive's visually oriented tools and will be able to create Web pages in just a few hours.

The first chapters introduce GoLive's working environment. Adobe GoLive 4 is cross-platform instruction, but since the application's interface differs little between Windows and Macintosh, there is minimal chance for confusion. The book then takes the reader through basic Web page assembly, placing and formatting text, and using GoLive's layout tools. Even users with extensive experience in layout applications like Quark or PageMaker may be daunted at first by GoLive's vastly different toolbars and inspectors, but the book provides many tips that clarify perplexing palettes or actions, warn about problems that can arise, or give advice on how to set preferences for optimal performance.

Adobe GoLive 4 also covers placing images, working with links, animating elements on the page, and working with the built-in HTML editors and the extensive site management tools. Topics like QuickTime authoring or JavaScript actions get a basic introduction.

An intermediate user will find Adobe GoLive 4 a good book for sharpening skills. For example, readers who are already comfortable with GoLive's Button tool for creating rollovers can look up the section on layers and the Show/Hide action and construct a multiple event rollover in short order.

As with all the books in this series, Adobe GoLive 4 is more like a reference book than a tutorial, and it is certainly a good choice if there isn't much time to hurdle the learning curve. --Angelynn Grant

Topics covered: An introduction to most of the features and functions in Adobe GoLive 4, including the application interface, toolbar, palettes, inspectors, page views, site management tools, and Web database; creating Web pages, including placing and formatting text, using the tools for making lists, spellchecking and find/replace, working with layout grids, tables, color, multiple objects, images and image maps, links, and frames; introduction to multimedia, including JavaScript and Java applets; introduction to DHTML and cascading style sheets and creating animation within GoLive; working with HTML tags, troubleshooting Web pages and publishing Web sites, including using built-in or standalone FTP

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Coming to Shelly Brisbin's book I simply say that reading it in front of my home PC loaded with a demo version of Golive was time well spent. The content is laid out orderly and you are immediately put in contact with the basic aspects of the product enabling you to make some real work in a very short time: I highly value those computer texts where technical democracy prevails and you are not led across the entire history of HTML before being made capable of charging your personal site with your first "Hello, folks!" one-page web creature, of course to be shown to your intimate friends with your falsest humility.

The book is honestly signalled as something aimed to the beginner and/or intermediate levels of readership and I add that this is just the skill grade with a quantitatively vast coverage but with very few examples of well-designed and enlightening texts available.

Brisbin covers all the relevant points without delving into much detail, but giving you the essentials you can later rely upon to form a good conceptual framework for further work and personal survey of the field. It is with books such as this one that you can lay the ground for your robust progress in a given area of interest.

So I have to thank Shelly Brisbin for the good harvest of my first Internet oil: I hope she willingly accepts a symbolic invitation to my first Tuscan lettuce webdish, seasoned with the precious G(olive) substance. Maybe I am even able to publish a mouth-watering GIF of the thing itself thanks to chapter 5 lessons!

So, just to overcome that awful paralysing `blank sheet' sensation which stops you from doing anything when too many alternatives are available I looked for advice on the Net itself. But doing this had been a devastating experience since the sites I visited pointed to legions of producers, products, workbenches, plug-ins and all the paraphernalia implied in web development.

A creeping "the good ol' times of Cobol" sentiment was just gaining ground inside me, even if I' ve got to acknowledge that when Cobol was at stake as a novelty, that is thirty years ago, I used to recline on the then fashionable "good ol' times of Assembly language" recrimination: nothing new under the sun!

So out of sheer technical helplessness I made up my mind to give my physical senses a chance, especially hearing and taste: I admit it is not a rational procedure but on the other hand too much reason spoils life of its beauty. The word Golive had in itself a lot of appeal: to an Italian ear it sounds almost sensual and full of promise, I dare say, musically sapid. Among other things, it is nearly all made up by the 'olive' substring, the renowned and highly literary fruit which yields that golden seasoning a Tuscan so much appreciates.

Coming to Shelly Brisbin's book I simply say that reading it in front of my home PC loaded with a demo version of Golive was time well spent. The content is laid out orderly and you are immediately put in contact with the basic aspects of the product enabling you to make some real work in a very short time: I highly value those computer texts where technical democracy prevails and you are not led across the entire history of HTML before being made capable of charging your personal site with your first "Hello, folks!" one-page web creature, of course to be shown to your intimate friends with your falsest humility.

The book is honestly signalled as something aimed to the beginner and/or intermediate levels of readership and I add that this is just the skill grade with a quantitatively vast coverage but with very few examples of well-designed and enlightening texts available.

Brisbin covers all the relevant points without delving into much detail, but giving you the essentials you can later rely upon to form a good conceptual framework for further work and personal survey of the field. It is with books such as this one that you can lay the ground for your robust progress in a given area of interest.

So I have to thank Shelly Brisbin for the good harvest of my first Internet oil: I hope she willingly accepts a symbolic invitation to my first Tuscan lettuce webdish, seasoned with the precious G(olive) substance. Maybe I am even able to publish a mouth-watering GIF of the thing itself thanks to chapter 5 lessons!