Customer Reviews

Adobe(R) GoLive(R) 5.0 Classroom in a Book (Classroom in a Book (Adobe))

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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).

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.