Adobe GoLive CS Classroom in a Book, Revised Edition [Paperback]

Adobe Creative Team (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0321278496 | ISBN-13: 978-0321278494 | Publication Date: August 26, 2004 | Edition: Revised

When you're ready to roll up your sleeves and start taking advantage of GoLive CS' powerful site management and collaboration capabilities, wireless authoring features, and dynamic database tools, it's time to get the guide from the people behind the software. In these pages, The Adobe Creative Team uses a series of project-based lessons to guide you through every aspect of GoLive's use. Working at your own pace, using training materials created and tested in Adobe's own classrooms and labs, you¿ll soon be creating effective, efficient Web sites with GoLive CS. Step-by-step instructions clearly detail toolbars, palettes, site architecture, Cascading Style Sheets, image maps, and more. And plenty of attention has been paid to GoLive CS' new features as well: enhanced Smart Object capabilities, advanced CSS authoring and previewing, streamlined print-to-Web production, and more. Each chapter concludes with a review section to reinforce what you've learned, and a CD-ROM provides the files and images needed to complete the exercises.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Setting up a Web site ranks among the most deceptively simple tasks in all of computerdom. At the end of the day, you just edit documents (and who hasn't done that before?). Even HTML, the underlying language of Web pages, is pretty easy to understand. But once the creation process gets underway, it becomes apparent that HTML coding is tedious, and that page designers often spend hours figuring out tiny layout details. Adobe GoLive CS is meant to ease and automate the process of creating and maintaining sites, and Adobe GoLive CS Classroom in a Book should serve you well as a tutorial and guide during your first GoLive projects.

Adobe chose a traditional style for this textbook, documenting the capabilities of GoLive one at a time with brief introductory paragraphs, stepped procedures, and screen shots that show the relevant pieces of the user interface. The illustrations effectively show processes--a series of three or more pictures might show how to select and modify an element, as well as the end result--but they and the steps usually manage to show only the standard way of doing something. There's less coverage of odd cases and obscure capabilities. Still, this book will get you off the ground and using Adobe GoLive effectively. --David Wall

Topics covered: How to use Adobe GoLive CS to create and manage Web sites, assuming you've never done much work along those lines before. In addition to the essentials of text layout, hyperlinks, and tables, this book covers JavaScript for image rollover effects (and some others), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for consistent application of design rules, and the GoLive features related to ongoing site management.

About the Author

The Adobe Creative Team is made up of designers, writers, and editors who have extensive, real-world knowledge of and expertise in using Adobe products. They work closely with the Adobe product development teams and Adobe's Instructional Communications team to come up with creative, challenging, and visually appealing projects to help both new and more experienced users get up to speed quickly on Adobe software products. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Press; Revised edition (August 26, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321278496
• ISBN-13: 978-0321278494
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,227,696 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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62 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed with AdobePress, February 3, 2004

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Elaine Robinson (Anchorage, AK USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe GoLive CS Classroom in a Book (Paperback)

This is the latest in a series of the famous "Adobe Classroom In A Book". It is part of the official training series for Adobe graphics, web and tools. As Webmaster for the Alaskan Apple Users Group (AAUG), I wanted to see what was new or different in GoLive CS.

The book is 520 pages and comes with a CD that includes files for thirteen lessons included in the book. It is for anyone who designs, develops and manages web sites. It teaches fundamental concepts and lessons designed to work at your own pace. If you are more familiar with GoLive, you can learn advanced features including tips and techniques. You can go start to finish or do only the lessons that corresponds to your interests or needs.

The lessons in this book "include information on the GoLive workflow. customizing the work area, converting layout grids to tables, creating stationery, spell checking, using variables with Smart Objects, adding date and time stamps, creating HTML styles, and working with Smart rollovers".

On to Lesson One! I opened the existing file Design Diagram.site. I clicked Diagram tab in the site window and double clicked to open the design file as instructed. A dialog window popped open with a message that said "Files included in Diagram may have changed location or been removed. Some pages or links within the diagram may be missing or drawn incorrectly". Hello! Didn't page one just tell me that all lessons had been revised to incorporate updated information on GoLive CS commands and tools? In the next paragraph in the book it said "Due to variables in system configurations, you may see an erroneous warning message regarding printing. You may safely disregard this message".Printing? I'm just trying to open the first file in Lesson one! I clicked "OK" to close the box and the lesson went well until I got to Adding Sections. While dragging a Section icon as instructed, the promised black bar did not appear that indicated the family relationship to the new page. No matter what I tried, it just wouldn't come up.

In the Creating a new design diagram section, there was a typo in 1: choose Diagram>New Design Diagram while the file menu simply says New Diagram. No biggie although I could not save the file as directed. Either the command was greyed out or when it wasn't and I saved the file, it didn't reflect as such on the top in the save red button. When I got to Adding Sections, dragging a section icon to the page didn't display the promised "black bar" indicating the family relationship to the new page!

I checked both Adobe and Peachpit Press to see if any "Errata" was posted. There was none. I really wanted to love this book as I have many in the Classroon Series. I am disappointed that it is rippled with errors and omissions.

I'm going to go through all the lessons as I am sure that the bulk of the book is good. It's just a shame that this book was not tested and edited more thoroughly.

Pros: Wonderful layout with lots of graphics, easy to follow instructions, review questions and answers at the end of each chapter.

Cons: Incorrect instructions, errors and typos. Not up to par with Adobe's Classroom in A Book series.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful book gone bad, December 13, 2003

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Aaron702 (Central Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Adobe GoLive CS Classroom in a Book (Paperback)

This book is the latest incarnation of the famous Adobe "Classroom In A Book" series. It appears to be a rather large rewrite of the prior version of the book from GoLive 6.0.

Initially impressive, this book suffers from a wealth of typos and operational problems within the first few pages of actual tutorial.

For instance:

On page 14 (Creating a new design diagram), there is no option called "New Design Diagram", rather, it is merely "New Diagram" (#1).

On page 15, the icon describing "Diagram Set" is drawn with straight lines (like the "Site Items" icon) rather than with curved lines (#5).

On page 17, the option "Canvas As Single Page" is spelled wrong. It is "Canvas Is Single Page" (#13).

On page 18, I do not get any sort of "black line" (as mentioned) showing up on any side of the "Main" page icon. Also, the in-text icon for the Diagram Set is wrong again (#2).

On pages 18-19, I cannot get any arrows to automatically add connections to the two Section icons I've pulled over and below the "Main" page icon on my Design tab of the Design window (as shown). Instead, the two boxes simply sit there (#5). However, I can get the correct effect by right-clicking on the "Main" box, selecting "New" then "Child" and then right-clicking on the "No Name" page and converting it to a section.

I have only read to page 19.

These typos are rather minor, but I am concerned I will continue to run into similar or more serious problems.

This is an early review for the explicit purpose of warning people before purchase. Unfortunately, it is the only book on GoLive CS at this time. Should the rest miraculously be without problem, would truly suffice for learning the program, though. I would have expected better from Adobe and PeachPit Press.

Oddly, Adobe Press hasn't posted an addendum on its site, so I guess I'm the first to notice the problems. The book has been out since earlier this week (Dec 12).

[UPDATE: There are more than two dozen such problems throughout the first chapter alone. I am reducing my 3-star rating to 2-stars. Use this book at your own risk!]

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars REVISED EDITION update!!, September 19, 2004

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Sam Parmelee (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe GoLive CS Classroom in a Book, Revised Edition (Paperback)

I have never used the original version of this book/CD, but I purchased the Revised
Edition (printed in late August 2004) and everything has been perfectly clear so far. It appears that many changes were made between printings, because the consistency between the book and the included CD has so far been faultless, typo-free, and error-free. I'm through 5 of 13 lessons, and every step of every lesson so far has occurred exactly as indicated in the text, and all files on the CD have been found in exactly where the book says they should be. Looks like Adobe read all of the bad press here and did something about it by giving us this revised edition in which all the errata seems to have been corrected (so far).

I have prior experience with HTML design and with computer programming, but neither before in an Adobe environment. I find the text to be VERY easy-to-follow, and I am impressed enough with how it has helped me that I have ordered Photoshop CS CIB and Illustrator CS CIB. I'm no Go-Live whiz-kid yet, but the book has made me completely functional within just a couple of days. I definitely recommend it.

Beware if you buy this book- make CERTAIN that you buy/receive the "Revised Edition", or you may encounter the problems all these other reviewers have encountered.