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Summary: Not A Premium Experience
Review: Although the author, Daniel Gray, took pains to declare otherwise, I am finding this volume, like almost all other programming tutorial texts I've purchased and tried to use, falls woefully short in the area of providing lucid and error free text in its examples. Try to do the exercise he includes in Chapter 3, Project SOHO SHED, on a PC running Windows and you will see what I mean. In defense of the book, I learned enough about creating web pages from it before I got to Project SOHO SHED that I was able to immediately discern the errors and work around them.
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Summary: Don't use PageMill without getting this book!!!
Review: Dan is a rare exception in the world of people who write about software. He's entertaining, informative, and easy to understand. This is not a step by step manual. In many instances, Dan demonstrates concepts, and follows with an exercise to demonstrate what he's just explained. This is an excellent teaching method, and one I use in my classes in both web design and in PageMill. Too many times an author gets stuck on the what, instead of on the why. Then the student gets stuck when the time comes to exercise a value judgement. Believe me, you won't have that problem if you get Dan's PageMill in Depth. I use it in my classes, and recommend it to my students, something I don't do lightly. PageMill in Depth is an excellent treatment of a superior product.
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Summary: It's good, but not perfect. What geekbook is?
Review: I'll be the first to admit that PageMill 3 f/x and design has its flaws. It was published in late spring 1998--more than half a year before the next PageMill 3 book hit the shelves. I invite you to go to the bookstore and take a look at both my book and Maria Langer's PageMill 3 book. We both take a different approach. She does some cool stuff. I do some cool stuff. They're different books. Sometimes, it's better to browse for yourself, in a real world bookstore, rather than just relying upon online reviews. If you've purchased my book, and something's not working for you, please email me (dan@geekbooks.com). We'll work through any difficulties you may be experiencing. I am committed to helping my readers. To me, this about more than just selling books.
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Summary: IT'S SHAREWARE!
Review: The book is great, but the CD-rom is full of time-limited shareware tools. So if learn to use them, youl'll get hooked and have to buy the. Hmm -maybe the books should be free -kind of like an ad for the software on the CD-rom?
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Summary: IT'S SHAREWARE!
Review: The book is great, but the CD-rom is full of time-limited shareware tools. So if learn to use them, youl'll get hooked and have to buy the. Hmm -maybe the books should be free -kind of like an ad for the software on the CD-rom?
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Summary: OK but not great!
Review: The book was ok but not great. There were places that were extremely hard to follow. I believe that the witer made the classic mistakes of assuming that the reader already knew something in the writers head. I did learn how to design a page with Page Mill but there was much that was not clear at all as it was full of jargon.
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Summary: OK but not great!
Review: The book was ok but not great. There were places that were extremely hard to follow. I believe that the witer made the classic mistakes of assuming that the reader already knew something in the writers head. I did learn how to design a page with Page Mill but there was much that was not clear at all as it was full of jargon.
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