Adobe Golive 5 Bible [Paperback]

Deborah Shadovitz (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764533479 | ISBN-13: 978-0764533471 | Publication Date: December 15, 2000

This is the comprehensive GoLive tutorial/reference, targeted to ambitious beginner to advanced users who want or need extensive coverage of GoLive features, as well as advanced tips and techniques. Real world examples included throughout the book provide added context and power for learning GoLive and making it do eye-popping cyber-acrobatics. A Mac-Windows CD-ROM included with the book is packed with usable artwork and templates, exclusive objects and JavaScripts, instructive tutorials, tryout versions of Adobe products, and much more.

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From the Back Cover

If GoLive 5 can do it, you can do it too... Designed from the ground up as a visual Web-authoring tool for designers, Adobe GoLive comes with a wealth of powerful features. Full of real-world examples, templates, illustrations, and techniques, the Adobe(r) GoLive(TM) 5 Bible is your all-in-one guide to this state-of-the-art software. Whether you're trying to format your first Web page or looking for advanced coverage of database publishing, this is the only reference you'll need to create cutting-edge Web sites. Inside, you'll find complete coverage of GoLive 5
* Plan ahead and stay organized with the Site Navigator flow-chart site map
* Import an existing site - or create a new one from scratch
* Take advantage of GoLive's drag-and-drop design tools, including the color palette, toolbars, grids, and more
* Build frames and framesets, format tables, and create bulleted lists
* Apply Cascading Style Sheets for a consistent - and easily edited - look-and-feel throughout your site
Exclusive Cross-Platform CD-ROM Included!
* Web Spice clip art
* PhotoSpin Images
* Dragon 5.0 online survey demo
* SnapzPro screen capture
* PopChar
* Powerful actions library from Out Media Design ($90 value)
* Page thing
* Actions by Matt Ridley
* Original artwork by Paul Bradforth
* Original photos by Bob Ludlow, Digital Photo Themes
* And more
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About the Author

About the Author Deborah Shadovitz's first career was in television, video, and audio-visual production and editing. (She also dabbled in radio and theater production.) Her affinity toward GoLive is a result of her design and communications background. Like many of us, she's enamoured by the Web for its unique communication capability. Because of this, she appreciates GoLive's vision of making this communication easier for all, and loves showing off GoLive's easy designer-oriented methodology and power. She enjoys helping others use GoLive effectively and wanted to write this book since using GoLive 2 (then called GoLive CyberStudio). Deborah is well known in the Mac community as an author, instructor, and speaker. She started out on computers using DOS and followed the path to Windows, so she's also familiar with the Windows environment. She's done stints on several Los Angeles-area Internet group advisory boards and is an active participant in the user group community. Deborah is also on the GoLive Advisory Committee (as you can see if you watch the GoLive splash screen long enough). Deb is known internationally for her well-received column, "Mac Efficiency 101," at www.maccentral.com. She is coauthor of the award-winning Macworld Office 98 Bible, Claris Works Office For Dummies, and Apple Works 5 For Dummies, as well as a contributor to other books including My iMac (all from IDG Books Worldwide). She's a regular speaker/instructor at Macworld Expo, other trade shows and events, and at computer user groups. And of course, she teaches GoLive-you can catch her at various user-group meetings, trade shows, or private seminars.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1104 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (December 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764533479
• ISBN-13: 978-0764533471
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,175,173 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid and Reliable, January 26, 2001

By 

Michael Mckee (Port Townsend, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Golive 5 Bible (Paperback)

All in all a competent reference suitable for a web newcomer as well as an old hand coder who finally has seen the error of his ways (wince). GoLive 5 Bible is as good as any book on the subject and better than some. Like all of IDG's Bible series its strength is also its weakness. In attempting to be all things to all people, this book focues more on beginning explanations than advanced features. Not a bad thing, I'll admit, but I would have liked to have seen more on customizing the program. Also, in adopting a chatty, informal style Shadovitz sometime slips into wordiness (read repeating herself). If I were only given the first chapter to read I would not have bought this book because Shadovitz gives more of a ra-ra sales pitch for GoLive than an overview.

Fortunately, the book quickly improves. Ch. 2 starts where it should for GoLive, with an overview of the program's great site management capabilities, then goes on to outline the other program features. Most of the following chapters are good to very good. Except, why would she leave the advanced site planning tools for the very end, even before WebDav & ASP? Really, just minor quibbles. I like the book.

Happy building.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best one out there, August 20, 2001

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A. M. Concepcion "HerGeekness" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Golive 5 Bible (Paperback)

I'm an Adobe certified GoLive trainer but I still find myself mystified by some of its features and how you're supposed to "work them" to get what you want. Deborah's extremely clear, detailed, step by step instructions for every nook and cranny of the program helps me out time and time again when I'm working on client web sites. I own most of the 3rd party (and Adobe Press) books on GoLive, and this is the one I turn to first.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why should you read our rating review?, December 8, 2001

By 

Fred Showker "DTG Magazine" (The Design Bookshelf) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe Golive 5 Bible (Paperback)

...simple: when selecting books to be given the honor of
"EDITOR'S CHOICE" ..., we
do a little research.

First, we selected several typical questions from the
GoLive mailing list. Then we chose the key words from
the readers' questions, and looked them up in the index
to the book.

Now we judge the book on how quickly we get the answer
to the question, how many pages it took us to get a solution
that would solve the readers' questions, and how clearly
we could institute the directions in the actual GoLive
program, on a real web site.

Deborah's book got ALL TEN QUESTIONS within 2 pages,
and all implementations were in place within minutes.

The other top 5 GoLive books took at least 3 pages of
study to get to the solutions, and, believe it or not, 2 of
the books could not answer the questions at all!

We give GoLive Bible by Deborah Shadovitz top ratings, and the Editor's Choice Award for December, 2001 in the Designers Bookshelf.