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Adobe(R) GoLive(R) 5.0 Classroom in a Book |
Adobe GoLive 5.0 Classroom in a Book provides users with everything they need to master GoLive, Adobe's powerful Web development and management tool. With GoLive, users design and lay out Web pages with superior design and code control, and can manage and update their Web site resources with GoLive's advanced site management tools. Lessons in this book are designed to let readers learn at their own pace. Users will learn all the new features of GoLive 5.0 and will run through a complete tour of the software, including designing and building a Web page, working with text, links, animations and forms. Then they will move on to working with Cascading Style Sheets, dynamic HTML and ready-to-use JavaScript actions. The included CD-ROM contains all the electronic files needed for each lesson. (Previous Edition ISBN: 0-201-65889-5)
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 no exception. 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 learning 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 covering a range of topics: from application basics and how to preview work in a real Web browser; 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 users 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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Publisher:
Adobe Press
Author:
Adobe Creative Team
Release Date: 2000-10-04
ISBN/EAN: 020171017X / 9780201710175
New Price: $4.49 /
Used Price: $0.01 /
Collectible Price: n.a.
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Average Rating: 3.5
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| The usual Adobe Quality | Rating: | | I've used several of Adobe's Classroom in a book for a reason. They're well-written and a great beginning to a relationship with a new (and complex) program. The clear steps and page pictures made learning very easy. If you want to make and manage great web sites with GoLive, get a copy of this book. | | Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2002-06-09 | | | | Good introductory book. But some limitations. | Rating: | | Rating reflects book's overall very good statute given clear, enjoyable, efficient organization and writting combined with moderate price and numerous examples included with the CD-ROM. These strengths are however offset by its limited scope, its introductory level, its lack of critical analyses and its somewhat boring follow-step-by-step approach. * * * Classroom in a book is here because Adobe online 'help' is so poorly organized, so redundant and confusing that is makes it hardly useable. (Adobe has also to sell its books!) This book, like all other 'Classroom in a book' is very clear, well designed, easy to understand and follow. It gives very pratical guidance through lessons whose elements are on the CD-ROM. With it, all essential elements for web design (entering text, creating tables, inserting pics etc.) are immediately accessible. However, this book is introductory level only. Besides, it gives only answers to how to perform essential elements, i.e. descriptive approach, and doesn't discuss issues or indicates the best solution (critical, value-added approach). | | Total Votes: 6, Helpful Votes: 5, Date: 2002-02-04 | | | | Fundmentals Only | Rating:  | | This book teaches the core functions of GoLive and that's all. You will not learn about why you would use one function verses another. No thoughts into what will work best for certain web designs. I bought it for a college course and I found it cumbersome. | | Total Votes: 3, Helpful Votes: 3, Date: 2001-10-25 | | | | Step By Step | Rating:  | | Adobe software, the cornerstone ofthe desktop publishing industry, has issued a superior product and this is a superior instructor. Follow these step and create easy, sharp and FAST web sites. The interface with this book is so precise that there is little to no room for error. | | Total Votes: 11, Helpful Votes: 2, Date: 2001-06-20 | | | | Good to get certified. | Rating: | | I would not necessarily recommend this book to someone breaking into the world of Web Design. While it does cover in depth the wide range of tools in GoLive, it doesn't explain which ones you would want to use when. Classroom in a Book can teach the basics, but the skill of knowing how to design, and what is appropriate compared to what is over the top, or browser incompatible are glossed over. There is still an excellent use of this book. Adobe offers a certification program for most of its programs, including GoLive. The questions that are asked in the Certification are in many cases addressed in the Classroom in a Book. For the user who knows GoLive fairly well and wants certification, this book is essential. The chapters cover those small odds and ends you didn't know GoLive could do. The questions at each chapter end make for a great study guide for the A.C.E. | | Total Votes: 10, Helpful Votes: 10, Date: 2001-04-23 | | | | The usual Adobe Quality | Rating: | | I've used several of Adobe's Classroom in a book for a reason. They're well-written and a great beginning to a relationship with a new (and complex) program. The clear steps and page pictures made learning very easy. If you want to make and manage great web sites with GoLive, get a copy of this book. | | Total Votes: 1, Helpful Votes: 1, Date: 2002-06-09 | | | | Good introductory book. But some limitations. | Rating: | | Rating reflects book's overall very good statute given clear, enjoyable, efficient organization and writting combined with moderate price and numerous examples included with the CD-ROM. These strengths are however offset by its limited scope, its introductory level, its lack of critical analyses and its somewhat boring follow-step-by-step approach. * * * Classroom in a book is here because Adobe online 'help' is so poorly organized, so redundant and confusing that is makes it hardly useable. (Adobe has also to sell its books!) This book, like all other 'Classroom in a book' is very clear, well designed, easy to understand and follow. It gives very pratical guidance through lessons whose elements are on the CD-ROM. With it, all essential elements for web design (entering text, creating tables, inserting pics etc.) are immediately accessible. However, this book is introductory level only. Besides, it gives only answers to how to perform essential elements, i.e. descriptive approach, and doesn't discuss issues or indicates the best solution (critical, value-added approach). | | Total Votes: 6, Helpful Votes: 5, Date: 2002-02-04 | | | | Fundmentals Only | Rating: | | This book teaches the core functions of GoLive and that's all. You will not learn about why you would use one function verses another. No thoughts into what will work best for certain web designs. I bought it for a college course and I found it cumbersome. | | Total Votes: 3, Helpful Votes: 3, Date: 2001-10-25 | | | | Step By Step | Rating: | | Adobe software, the cornerstone ofthe desktop publishing industry, has issued a superior product and this is a superior instructor. Follow these step and create easy, sharp and FAST web sites. The interface with this book is so precise that there is little to no room for error. | | Total Votes: 11, Helpful Votes: 2, Date: 2001-06-20 | | | | Good to get certified. | Rating: | | I would not necessarily recommend this book to someone breaking into the world of Web Design. While it does cover in depth the wide range of tools in GoLive, it doesn't explain which ones you would want to use when. Classroom in a Book can teach the basics, but the skill of knowing how to design, and what is appropriate compared to what is over the top, or browser incompatible are glossed over. There is still an excellent use of this book. Adobe offers a certification program for most of its programs, including GoLive. The questions that are asked in the Certification are in many cases addressed in the Classroom in a Book. For the user who knows GoLive fairly well and wants certification, this book is essential. The chapters cover those small odds and ends you didn't know GoLive could do. The questions at each chapter end make for a great study guide for the A.C.E. | | Total Votes: 10, Helpful Votes: 10, Date: 2001-04-23 | | |
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