The Official Bbedit Book [Paperback]

Bob Levitus (Author), Natanya Pitts (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1997

Endorsed and edited by Bare Bones Software, this text provides a complete guide to every feature of BBEdit and explains how to use the software to create and program a web site.

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From the Publisher

As the number-one HTML authoring tool on the market, BBEdit is the world's most popular Web authoring tool-on any platform! Endorsed and edited by the engineers at Bare Bones Software, this thorough guide explores every feature of BBEdit and shows how to use the software to create and program dynamic Web sites. - Includes an introduction by Rich Siegel, creator of BBEdit

- Promoted on the BBEdit and Bare Bones Web sites

- Exclusive CD-ROM features tools found nowhere else

Product Details

• Paperback: 359 pages
• Publisher: Ziff Davis Pr (July 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562765051
• ISBN-13: 978-1562765057
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 6.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,831,775 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Edward C. Baig is the Personal Technology columnist for USA TODAY and the author of Macs For Dummies, 10th Edition. Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus pens the popular Dr. Mac column for the Houston Chronicle and is the author of Mac OS X® Snow Leopard For Dummies.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Outdated, bloated, hack job..., October 26, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The Official Bbedit Book (Paperback)

A pale shadow of the BBEdit v4.5 manual -- don't buy this book. As a long-time user of Bare Bones BBEdit, I eagerly awaited the release of "The Official BBEdit Book," seeking to learning more about harnessing the awesome power of BBEdit and perhaps some of its secrets. Bitter disappointment is my description of this 381-page 'hack job.'

It's dated, only covering BBEdit 4.0, the previous version. This doesn't bode well, considering it's an "official" book. Mention of BBEdit 4.5, the latest version, amounts to one sentence with no mention of MacOS 8 or new features like contextual menus and the Table Builder. One of BBEdit's most important and powerful features Global Regular Expression Parser (GREP), has a scant 5-1/2 pages devoted to it. Absent are adequate explanations, insight or examples of real world GREP. In contrast, BBEdit v4.5's slimmer User Manual contains a superior section on GREP. Contrary to the title page, the included CD-ROM does NOT contain, "...tools and extensions not available elsewhere."; they are included on the BBEdit v4.5 CD-ROM or elsewhere.

Much of the text is taken up with HTML coding and tags, which is admirable since 90 percent of users buy BBEdit for that task, but a more accurate title might have been "Creating Web Pages with BBEdit." Also, the chapters on HTML, Perl and Frontier seems to have been recycled from other sources and are of limited value.

Forget this book -- it's a poor imitation of the User Manual with some web coding added for bulk. My advice -- buy one of Lynda Weinman's excellent html design books and BBEdit v4.5. You'll be better rewarded and learn much more than "The Official BBEdit Book" could ever teach you.

2.0 out of 5 stars Outdated, bloated -- BBEdit's user manual is better!, October 16, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The Official Bbedit Book (Paperback)

A pale shadow of the BBEdit v4.5 manual -- don't buy thisbook. As a long-time user of Bare Bones BBEdit, I eagerly awaited therelease of "The Official BBEdit Book," seeking to learning more about harnessing the awesome power of BBEdit and perhaps some of its secrets. Bitter disappointment is my description of this 381-page 'hack job.'

It's dated, only covering BBEdit 4.0, the previous version. This doesn't bode well, considering it's an "official" book. Mention of BBEdit 4.5, the latest version, amounts to one sentence with no mention of MacOS 8 or new features like contextual menus and the Table Builder. One of BBEdit's most important and powerful features Global Regular Expression Parser(GREP), has a scant 5-1/2 pages devoted to it. Absent are adequate explanations, insight or examples of real world GREP. In contrast, BBEdit v4.5's slimmer User Manual contains a superior section on GREP. Contrary to the title page, the included CD-ROM does NOT contain, "...tools and extensions not available elsewhere."; they are included on the BBEdit v4.5 CD-ROM or elsewhere.

Much of the text is taken up with HTML coding and tags, which is admirable since 90 percent of users buy BBEdit for that task, but a more accurate title might have been "Creating Web Pages with BBEdit." Also, the chapters on HTML, Perl and Frontier seems to have been recycled from other sources and are of limited value.

Forget this book -- it's a poor imitation of the User Manual with some web coding added for bulk. My advice -- buy one of Lynda Weinman's excellent html design books and BBEdit v4.5. You'll be better rewarded and learn much more than "The Official BBEdit Book" could ever teach you.