Sams Teach Yourself Adobe(R) GoLive(R) 5 in 24 Hours

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Summary: Detailed step-by-step
Review: GoLive in 24 is very well structured. It is one of the best detailed "24 hour" books I have read. It also has a great support website with resource files. GoLive is not an easy program to "pick-up" and this book really gets you going on the right track. It covers both basic and powerful techniques.

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Summary: Excellent Teaching Methods
Review: I found this book immensely helpful since I was switching from Frontpage to GoLive. GoLive is definitely "industrial strength" and the paradigm of this program is significantly different from Frontpage. This book really helped me understand the logic of the GoLive program. There is a reason for all the pallettes, toolbars and the way the program is laid out. This book really facilitated a painless process in understanding the program...which is absolutely essential in order to take advantage of all the great features of GoLive. The explanation of metatags and how they are used in search engines is very helpful and everything you need to know to easily build them into your site is explained in the book. I definitely recommend Sams Teach Yourself Adobe GoLive 5 for beginners to intermediate professionals...I would consider myself an intermediate website builder.

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Summary: "THE" book to get for the beginner.
Review: I found this book very helpful to teach beginners. It is also a great reference for Intermediate users. BUY the book!

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Summary: Excellent Teaching Methods
Review: I knew absolutely nothing about designing a web site. For two days I tore my hair out attempting to understand the GoLive manual. The best thing I did was purchase this book. In about 4 hours I was easily designing my own website, adding animation, images, links and text. This book is perfect for the beginner. It's starts simply and builds from there. I can't recommend this highly enough for a beginner who is daunted by the task of learning GoLive and building a decent website.

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Summary: sams golive is great
Review: I like to review books and products. I find it interesting that webauthoring and many graphic self help books are mostly text based when they talk and instruct about visual based computer software like golive 5. Even when many books use illustrations, screen shots and graphics to demonstrate commands, features, parts of the program and how to use, their writings are many times confusing, counter intuitive or make the learning process more difficult . Not so for Sams Teach golive 5.

I was hunting for another tutorial llike book to learn more about golive 5 and redo my websites. I wanted a book with more visuals. I stumbled upon this one while considering several other books that had many screen shots and visuals.

The strengths of this book are the way the authors have written this book. Thy write it in the manner that many want to learn - how build websites- not how to use the features. There is a big difference.

The authors actually seem to read your mind as you go through the learning process. I knew many features etc so I was trying to check how well the authors wrote the tutorial type text. Their
tutorials are easy to understand yet comprehensive.

Illustrations are to the point and are synchronized with the visual. While it is structured way of building and working with gl5 , it is very intuitively and flexibly written to tie in different ways to start, develop and produce with the program. In other books, many features are listed in several places in the index and are very hard to find. No so in this book. Most what you have to find is in one place. If there is more , you are directed within the text. No blind hunting is involved.

They usually come from different perspectives. For example, building web pages. They don't assume that there is only one way. You can create from new, modify others, import from servers, import from already made websites. They anticipate the many needs of the person reading the book.

One of the reasons I chose this book over some of the visual based books that have many more illustrations and screen shots is that they had extensive coverage how to use and insert quicktime video, graphics and more.

The book covers windows and mac versions by showing commands to use in the tutorials. At the end of each chapter, there are usually troubleshooting questions that answer some of the perplexing questions I found difficult to solve. Several times, when I had problems, the authors anticipated these with added explanations at the end of chapters. Some may find the little quizes at the end also helpful.

It does not come with a cd and is very reasonably priced compared to some of the other books which is another reason to buy it as a best buy.

I wish I had bought this book when I first bought golive. No matter what version of GL or operating system , I believe you will find this book will help you. Most novice and intermediate and even advanced users will find it very useful.

I am not sure about other books in this series , but these authors really know what they are talking about and have written the book to relay their ample knowledge. There are other GL books but I would recommend looking at this first.

Dr. Eric Flescher ...

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Summary: Sams Teach Yourself Adobe(R) GoLive(R) 5 in 24 Hours
Review: I've read several GoLove books to get a handle on the basics of this exceptional application. GoLive In 24 Hours is the best. It's easy to understand. Puts first things first. And gives one enough information to springboard into creating some pretty compelling web designs. I recommend it highly.

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Summary: A must have for every GoLive 5.0 beginner..
Review: Out of three other books I own for GoLive, this one was the best. If you are a beginner with GoLive, this book is a must have.

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Summary: SAM'S Teach Yourself Adobe Go Live 5 in 24 Hours
Review: This guide is excellent, easy to understand and I highly recommend it.

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Summary: A! Tops!
Review: This is the best Go Live 6 book I have read. It is clear, concise, and get's you up and running quickly. I would reccomend it to anyone!