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Web Publishing With Adobe Pagemill 2: The Ultimate Guide to Designing Professional Web Pages

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This is a very simplistic introduction to PageMill with many key instructions either missing or buried between the lines of the overly-cutsie prose. For example, the Attributes Inspector has a key menu that allows the detailed placement of graphics - this menu is never mentioned nor is an illustration of it shown anywhere in the book (I only stumbled across it accidentally). Also, several files are not on the accompanying CD. Finally, it is very hard to concentrate when reading such rubbish as, "...do you recall seeing a funny looking bull's- eye... Surprise! That bull's-eye..." ad nauseum. Although the book is 418 pages, only 135 deal directly with the technical aspects of PageMill; all the rest is vague generalities about web design, hosting and outdated information about web software.

Couldn't find the author of this book to ask him to explain this ripoff and waste of time. The initial browse was tempting, especially the tutorials and online updates. But the files required for some tutorials are not on the disc. The online update information is outdated-wrong because vmedia.com is not available. None of this inspires a further investment of time. I would rather invest a little more money in another book that fulfills promises which were crucial in the decision-to-purchase. Who is responsible for this deception?

The tone of the book made it an easy read and an useful introduction to PageMill and web publishing.

However, I did find that some of the information was out of date - but it was printed 2 years ago!!

I was disappointed with the tutorials because firstly they did not span the whole book and did not include exercises in putting sound and video into PageMill and secondly I failed to find the Chapter 1 tutorial on the CDROM.

Furthermore, the web address - vmedia.com is not available.

Overall, I feel the book is a useful introduction but one you would borrow from the library rather than buy!

I have read several good software instructional books, and I found Ventana's "Ultimate Guide" to Pagemill to be ULTIMATELY FRUSTRATING. The author tends to mention a particular attribute of the program without telling you how to access it until the very end of his discussion. A good example of this problem can be found in his explanation of HTML "anchors." He tells us how to create a single anchor and how to name it, but once we've done that, he doesn't tell us of what use they are or how to move between one anchor and the next--the entire reason these objects exist. I find myself continually marking up my copy with questions that I hope are answered later in the book. Some are, others aren't. This book could be very useful in another, more carefully edited edition. (I've also found quite a few typos which suggests the haste of the publication process.) In short, stay away from the 1997 edition and be wary of this series of "Ultimate Guides."

I needed a book to use as a guide in an HTML course and went to the book store and there was this book. After browsing it for only a few minutes I knew that not only would I use the book, but would use PageMill (rather than Netscape Editor) as the editor of choice in my course. I bought 7 copies (and need at least 3 more)!!

I found that the book kept it's focus and dealt with many of the issues involved in web publishing, not just how to use the program, but also how to actually design and use and setup an entire web site for business and personal use.

I will say this, the only negative point I had on the book was it came out prior to the release of the WINDOWS version and that mean't that during my course I had to refer to the 'differences' in the program from windows and mac. Hope to see a 2nd edition on this book with the upgrades and changes reflecting the WINDOWS release.

Daniel Gray's "Pagemill" book is not only a definitive work on a truly killer application, but it's serves as a terrific resource for web designers. And it's entertaining. I read this 400+ page computer book cover to cover in three days--and hated to see it end. Move over Stephen King...

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