Customer Reviews

Pagemill 3 for Macintosh and Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)

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This book was perfect in helping me design an in-house training curriculum for novice PageMill users. When I received the task of training others on PageMill I had never even seen the program. This book was great in teaching me the basics so that I could begin to teach others. I wouldn't say that it's an advanced users guide, but for a simple, graphical, easy-to-understand start-up, it's perfect.

As a teacher, curriculum developer and online graduate student who uses PageMill almost every day, I found the book to be an excellent introduction to the software and its capabilities The book is appropriately targeted at beginning and intermediate users and is much superior to the any of the material which accompanies the software. I got quite a bit from the book and am certain others will also. I would love to see Langer take the next step by writing a book for intermediate and advanced users who would like to do more formal web page design using this great software product.

Clear introduction of web terms. I liked the format; the features and capabilities of PageMill are clearly explained and illustrated. I have a copy of PageMill for my Mac at work and one for my PC at home, and I was very grateful for the equal coverage of both environments. This book has dramatically improved my opinion of PageMill.

I purchased this book after using PageMill for a year or more. As do other users who enjoy diving into a program and seeing what it can do, I thought that I knew PageMill's capabilities and limitations well -- yet I wasn't quite sure. This wonderful book taught me more than a few tricks to make my sites far better than they were, and, yes, several program features which I hadn't uncovered on my own were laid out and explained beautifully. I recommend this title for *anyone* using PageMill, whether first timers or old pros.

Maria is an exceptionally talented writer, who must have used three computers simultaneously to write this book -- one to display the PageMill 3.0 software on a Mac, another for PageMill for Windows, and a third (probably a Mac since she is so smart) for the word processing program to write the book. She displays companion screen shots of both the Mac and Windows versions on nearly every page, and she clearly describes the commands, menus and steps to do virtually everything PageMill can do. I found her "Tips" section on most pages to be the most interesting and always helpful. This is a well organized book, one that I'll turn to frequently as I begin to work in PageMill. There aren't many books out there on PageMill 3.0 right now (4/99). I bought two. My advice -- buy this one, not Dan Gray's. Save yourself both money and frustration, and learn more! Thanks, Maria. I appreciate your help!

A book that provides nothing but basic skills. Furthermore, what confines this book is that it does not address how to intertwine these skills to create dynamic sights. Perhaps if the author guided the reader in combining the elements, the book would be much easier to follow. It is like...shall I say, being informed on what you need to build a house, yet forgetting to tell you how to build it.

There are better choices for getting started with Pagemill. I got a copy with my iMac and wanted a printed manual. I had no experience with web pages. The VQS guide lost me on image placement and resourse folders. I recommend printing the PDF manual and doing the included tutorial.

Maria Langer has done what Adobe forgot to do - provide a simple, visual guide to this incredible web authoring tool! With PageMill 3, you can create and manage state-of-the-art websites. Tell your story to the world in the most effective way. This Visual Quickstart Guide gets you up-to-speed in the shortest possible time! I wholeheartedly recommend Ms. Langer's book to anyone who wants to design exceptional web sites!

David Wilkerson.

I was disappointed in the book because though there is a great deal of information in it there was nothing in there to show how to integrate it. I believe the book should have contained tutorials which show the steps in the creation of a web page from start to finish with references to the various chapters each step of the way. This would teach the methodology of web page design. I have found that this a common problem with most computer books.

Great book, TONS of pics, lots of great details, a wonderful book to have to help you learn Pagemill in a hurry!