Customer Reviews

Claris Home Page Companion

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I bought this book full of expectations, but I felt really let down. The first problem was the sheer size which meant I could not hold it and read it, rather I had to keep it flat on a table... no reading in bed. It really turns a simple yet powerful programme into a complex and difficult task. It really was a disaster for me yet despite it I got my web page up and running using the text help on the Claris Home Page disk.

The book picks up where the manual left off. What I would have liked to see was more examples of the use of the program, URLs of resource sites and perhaps a CD of useful images, utilities etc.
It's OK, but...

Before I moved up into the wonders of DreamWeaver, I used Claris Home Page to design my sites. And really, compared to other WYSIWYGs out there like Front Page or PageMill, Claris Home Page wasn't such a bad little tool! This book more than adequately explained how to use the program, and I always found its instructions thorough and well written.

Claris Home Page Companion, by Maria Langer is an okay book for the experienced user who is looking for advice on how to fine-tune a web page. I bought it thinking it would be a good book for an HTML beginner (me), but it does not give enough dtailed examples. I was looking for something that would show me a page and then show the code that created that page. This book does not do that, it talks a lot about coding and shows the results, but does not explain how the results were achieved.