Customer Reviews

Yahoo! SiteBuilder For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

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I would not recommend this book. It was really not helpful for us. We currently have a yahoo store with over 6000+ items and this book is really geared for stores with 50 or less items. The attached software was not useful. However, I would recommend another book: "Starting a Yahoo! Business For Dummies", by Richard Snell. The Snell book is much more useful and full of informative advance stuff for starting and improving your Yahoo store. David Mark, Cmdstore

I needed to set up a web site faster than it was going to take me to learn Dreamweaver. Yahoo! SiteBuilder for Dummies successfully walked me through the process of setting up a site at Yahoo! in less than half a days time. It's well written, clear and broken down into distinct components so you can go directly to the material you need without wading through all sorts of stuff that's not relevant to you.

It did the trick for me, I hope it does for you.

The is reference was very helpful and covers nearly 100% of sitebuilders tools and topics. I found it to be of great help in the use of Sitebuilder. What is lacking in this book is it fails to advise the serious to minor 'bugs' within Sitebuilder 2.2.3 and the almost total lack of support and response from the Yahoo/Sitebuilder team.

Ever since Yahoo acquired Geocities, it has aspired to be a major web hosting site. To this ends, it has striven to help users make web sites. Wagner describes how Yahoo's SiteBuilder simplifies a lot of messy details and, hopefully, lets you concentrate on the actual design.

Maybe the most important aid is the numerous templates. For such subjects as a birthday, education, electronics or music. If you are new to HTML, these can greatly help you put up pages. More experienced users might want to start from scratch, however. While the site's templates are well done, the sheer fact that each is used by many hosted sites means that inevitably if your site does likewise, there will be an element of cookie-cutter-ness.

Along the way to describing what SiteBuilder can do for you, Wagner also offers useful and quite general guidelines for site design. These are independent of actually using SiteBuilder. An added advantage of the book.

The advanced section of the book, that deals with using JavaScript in your pages, gives a synopsis of that language. If you are serious about using JavaScript, consider also getting another book, devoted to it. (Like "JavaScript for Dummies".)

I read the book in sections because I just couldn't stay focused. My mind was racing. The book is really helpful. I am using sitebuilder so half the stuff wasn't as useful, but the other half was really worth it. He really knows what he's talking about.

I really appreciate anyone who takes the time to attempt to bring an old fool like me into the world of computers. I enjoy my machine and am trying to learn as much as I can about how to use it, so getting a book like this is very helpful. Thanks for putting this material at my disposal.

The book is great, although I think I ordered the wrong book for what I needed (not their fault). The book arrived so quickly and was at a super great price. Plus, I ordered a used book, and they sent me a brand new one.

: ) Even though the book is different for what I need exactly, it is super informational, easy-to-read, and I am overall happy.

This product refers to a software tool once available on a Yahoo site. That has been replaced with something with the same title but very different. This book could be of no use to no one. No one should buy this book.