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Adobe PageMill 3 f/x and Design: Everything You Need to Know about Designing and Maintaining a Dynamic Web Site [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by Daniel Gray (Author)

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Adobe PageMill 3 F/X and Design teaches you how to use the Adobe PageMill 3.0 program for Windows and Macintosh to create lively, interesting Web sites. Although the updated program supports neither Dynamic HTML nor cascading style sheets, it does offer the site-management features of SiteMill. Formerly a separate product, SiteMill comes with Adobe Photoshop LE for image editing, making PageMill 3.0 even more valuable than previous versions.

The author first teaches you how to plan your Web site as you consider your audience, content, resources, and navigational features. You then learn how to add and format text and add a variety of background and icon graphics to your pages. Next, the authors delve into designing pages with tables, frames, and forms and making more interactive pages (filled with GIF animations, Shockwave, QuickTime movies, sound, and Java applets).

With your Web site basically done, you work on attracting an audience by, for example, registering your site with search engines, tracking hits, using META tags, and simply adding your URL to your organization's logo, ads, and other output. You also use the newly integrated (and enhanced) SiteMill features to tackle site-maintenance issues such as link maintenance, searching and replacing, and error fixing. The specialized final chapters focus on creating Web storefronts using Open Market's (formerly ICentral's) ShopSite Express and on extending PageMill's functionality via plug-ins and .pdf files.

A full-color section shows sample PageMill sites created by various designers. An appendix lists online resources for graphics, animations, movies, sound files, JavaScripts, and Java applets. The included CD-ROM comes with trial software, JavaScripts, Java applets, and graphics, as well as files for the book's exercises. These projects are accompanied by thorough discussions of features, artistic guidance, technical advice, and screen shots. --Kathleen Caster

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Explains PageMill's new site management and plug-in features. Covers conversion of text to HTML, database integration, CGIs, Acrobat PDF, Shockwave, whether to ActiveX or not, Java and JavaScript rollover buttons, scrolling text and other effects. Covers new features such as integrated site management.

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Product Details

Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Coriolis Group Books (June 24, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1576102149
ISBN-13: 978-1576102145
Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds

Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #787,209 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars This is an excellent book !, September 4, 1999

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As a computer teacher who thrives on well written resource books (allowing me to better understand my subject prior to teaching it to my students), I wholeheartedly recommend Adobe PageMill 3 F/X and Design. In my opinion, it is clearly geared towards the intermediate (skill) user who has some working knowledge of PageMill 3. The CD has great resources. Similarly, Daniel's accompanying web site for the book at geekbooks.com is extremely helpful. Thanks for a producing a clearly written book that I have found very helpful.

-Themis Drakos

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4.0 out of 5 stars It's good, but not perfect. What geekbook is?, July 1, 1999

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I'll be the first to admit that PageMill 3 f/x and design has its flaws. It was published in late spring 1998--more than half a year before the next PageMill 3 book hit the shelves.

I invite you to go to the bookstore and take a look at both my book and Maria Langer's PageMill 3 book. We both take a different approach. She does some cool stuff. I do some cool stuff. They're different books.

Sometimes, it's better to browse for yourself, in a real world bookstore, rather than just relying upon online reviews.

If you've purchased my book, and something's not working for you, please email me (dan@geekbooks.com). We'll work through any difficulties you may be experiencing.

I am committed to helping my readers. To me, this about more than just selling books.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A worthwhile book if you are starting out with Pagemill 3, July 23, 1998

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This book is definitely worth it if you are just starting out with Pagemill 3 as the online instructions for the program are not great.

For me however I'm glad I purchased it as it is a great refernece, but having been using Pagemill 3 for two months,I have been left with more questions than ever.

I am a graphic designer who has "converted" to the web and thus my design skills are good but how does one learn to convert everything to HTML? This is a good basic start.

This book has helped in certain areas, and I would recommend it for most web learners.

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2.0 out of 5 stars IT'S SHAREWARE!
The book is great, but the CD-rom is full of time-limited shareware tools. So if learn to use them, youl'll get hooked and have to buy the. Read more

Published on December 16, 2000 by Einar Kramer

3.0 out of 5 stars OK but not great!
The book was ok but not great. There were places that were extremely hard to follow. I believe that the witer made the classic mistakes of assuming that the reader already knew... Read more

Published on August 25, 2000 by oscar wright

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Although the author, Daniel Gray, took pains to declare otherwise, I am finding this volume, like almost all other programming tutorial texts I've purchased and tried to use,... Read more

Published on January 26, 2000 by Gerald E. Strebe`

2.0 out of 5 stars Good in some areas but leaves out necessare steps.
I thought I was going to love this book. It started out just great. I was doing the tutorials and happy as a lark. Then came importing bar. Read more

Published on September 16, 1999

1.0 out of 5 stars Too Confusing
Book doesn't follow closely with the Software. Not at all a recommended choice to learn PageMill Software.

Published on July 24, 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't use PageMill without getting this book!!!
Dan is a rare exception in the world of people who write about software. He's entertaining, informative, and easy to understand. This is not a step by step manual. Read more

Published on July 4, 1999

1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly written and leading you to most total confusion
Some people might have benefited from this book but I found it confusing and very poor as far as the practice project are concerned. Read more

Published on June 28, 1999

2.0 out of 5 stars This book describes what to do with Pagemill 3, not how.
I appreciated the color inserts with examples of good websites. However, the book doesn't provide a lot of detail on HOW to use the program. Read more

Published on June 22, 1999

3.0 out of 5 stars Ok for beginners to Pagemill and web work
The book covers most of the basics for creating web pages, and provides wonderful color illustrations of examples. Read more

Published on March 25, 1999

1.0 out of 5 stars total waste of time and money.
This book is nothing more than a long ad for pagemill.It tells you what it can do,but,not how. If you want to make a page like the one the author likes,you can use his... Read more

Published on February 19, 1999

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