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Summary: The usual Adobe Quality
Review: 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.
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Summary: Brian webmaster@datapex.com
Review: I've used this book to teach my college class and found that it created more confusion than helping. While it does explain the tools and how to use them, it never really takes you through building a site from the ground up. For beginners this book was not a good plan. The lessons confused my students a bit. Some of them didn't grasp the idea of using tables as opposed to floating boxes. Some of the steps described in the book also didn't work well when implemented outside of the lessons. I admit that GoLive has many powerful features and can be a great tool for creating and maintaing a website, but as for Classroom in a book, well, I'll be teaching from something else next semester.
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Summary: Good for people new to Golive
Review: If you need to learn Adobe Golive from scratch, then this book is for you. It covers everything from the basics to the more complex. As usuall the adobe team does a good job at writing a book both for the newbies and the more experienced people. Though, if you already know Adobe Golive 4, many of the things will be the same. My two cents.
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Summary: A great book for both novices and intermediate Acrobat users
Review: Let me just start by saying, that this book is great! I myself was a novice on Adobe Acrobat and mostly just used it to do simple pdf-conversion through distiller. Reading this book answered all of my questions that had build up through time. Along side I learned a lot of new stuff and cool tricks to do simple tasks in smarter ways.
The only weak spot, from my point of oppinion, is a weak chapter concerning colourmanagement and prepress, but I figure, that guys who really need that sort of info, wouldn't read this book. All in all a very good bye!
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Summary: Good introductory book. But some limitations.
Review: 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).
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Summary: Adobe Should Pay the Reader to Sell this Book
Review: This book as a self help self paced guide to learning the program falls far short of teaching. The book and the lesson plans leave out important imformation about GoLive. If you're using a PC, even if you unlock the lesson plans 2 of the chapters don't work. If your following their Steps 1-5 process they forget to tell you about steps 2 or 3 in more that one instance, leaving you to figure out the process. Adobe's technical writers wrote this book, but it's obvious they never had to use it. In several of the chapters you need to defer to the users manual or online help to decipher what they want you to do. I'm using this book in a college classroom where my opinion is shared by all in attendance. I've used a lot of self help books, this one I wouldn't recommend to anyone! I think Adobe should owes me a refund!
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Summary: Fundmentals Only
Review: 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.
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Summary: Can't Go Wrong Here!
Review: This is an excellent book. I was a novice to GoLive 5 before I read this book. Now I'm more than adept at getting just about any task done. In Lesson 4, you'll need Photoshop 5.5, Illustrator 9.0, and Live Motion 1.0, but you can still learn some valuable information from the lesson even if you don't have those programs. I recommend this book to anyone who is new to the program. It is, hands down, the best thought out book ever read. Much respect goes to Adobe for putting this Classroom In A Book series on the shelves!! (Just bought the one for LiveMotion as well) And just think, you don't have to be called an 'Idiot' or a 'Dummy' to learn a great new program. If you have the program, BUY THE BOOK. You won't be sorry! I sure as heck wasn't!
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Summary: Very Informative!
Review: This was a great buy. I've learned a lot in just the 1st 70 pages. It paid for itself!
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