HomeSite 4.5 Fast & Easy Web Development [Paperback]

John W. Gosney (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 15, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0761531823 | ISBN-13: 978-0761531821 | Edition: 1

Allaire HomeSite is the industry’s most popular HTML editor. This book offers you an easy-to-understand guide to the new features of this version of HomeSite, including collapsible code, auto completion, a new project management system, scriptable site development, a new image map editor, and more! Homesite 4.5 Fast & Easy Web Development offers a wide range of appeal. From the amateur creating a personal home page to the professional Web master with a high-end corporate Web site, all readers will benefit from the step-by-step instructions and visual approach of this book.

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About the Author

John Gosney is currently the Director of Information Technology for the Indiana University School of Dentistry, and is also an adjunct instructor for the IU School of Liberal Arts on the Indianapolis campus. John has worked in both the publishing and pharmaceutical industries as an application developer, technical writer, and training consultant. John writes extensively on all facets of the IT arena, from market analysis and forecasts to guidebooks on a variety of topics. His most recently published titles with Course include "Blogging for Teens" (1592004768), "Convert Your VHS Home Movies to DVD" (1592004822) and "HTML Professional Projects" (159200055X). John received his B.A. in technical writing and psychobiology in 1992 from Purdue University and an M.A. in English from Butler University in 1996. John, who resides in Columbus, Indiana, enjoys sports, reading, listening to music, and spending time with his family.

Product Details

• Paperback: 366 pages
• Publisher: Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade; 1 edition (February 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761531823
• ISBN-13: 978-0761531821
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,402,897 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good overview, great scripting info, February 23, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: HomeSite 4.5 Fast & Easy Web Development (Paperback)

I have been using FrontPage for sometime, and was recently asked to begin exploring HomeSite as a scripting tool for ColdFusion (of which I knew very little). What a (pleasant) surprise to find that this book covers in detail how to both process forms and access a database using the ColdFusion scripting features built in to HomeSite (not to mention very solid information on ASP as well). While I would like to have had more specific information on the customization features available within HomeSite, this was a solid overivew of the program in general (certainly worth the $$, when compared to the documentation provided by Allaire).

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Personal Web Server, October 25, 2001

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Steven E. George (Genesee, Idaho USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HomeSite 4.5 Fast & Easy Web Development (Paperback)

I'm not completely through this book yet. I like the format and the step-by-step approach with lots of boxes for special notes and cautions. There are a few typos (as mentioned in previous reviews) but, in my opinion, they are minor and did not distract from the subject material.

I am writing this reveiw now because: 1) the www.prima-tech.com site is not working and 2) I wanted to tell readers how to get past a difficulty that I had on page 84.

You need to know the IP address of your PC in order to utilize Personal Web Server while testing your work. There may be other methods, but I did the following: 1) open a MS-DOS window and 2) type "ipconfig" at the c:\windows>" prompt. You can then use this address within your browser (connected or not) to test your work. The author assumed that I already knew how to get and use my IP address. He should include a box on page 84 to explain how to do this for each operating system covered in the book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I guess it's ok if you have *no* clue, May 31, 2002

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Arno E Jones (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HomeSite 4.5 Fast & Easy Web Development (Paperback)

I won't expound on all the typo's already reviewed. I'm disappointed that there is no meat to the book. It is a book of "click this button and you will get these results" There seems to be nothing more here than in the included documentation. Lots of verbage too. I don't need 5 lines of text explaining why the author chose to use an underscore as part of the name of the folder he created, or a whole page dedicated to the installation status bar. I bought the book for more detail on a few different aspects of Homesite and got absolutely nothing out of it. I wasted my money.