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Summary: Book with great content
Review: I've had this book since it was released and it really helped my learn how to use GoLive 6 as I already know how to do web pages and such. Having used Dreamweaver for many years, the way GoLive works is completely different and this book was a good guide on figuring out how to get what I wanted done, done.
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Summary: Book with great content
Review: I've had this book since it was released and it really helped my learn how to use GoLive 6 as I already know how to do web pages and such. Having used Dreamweaver for many years, the way GoLive works is completely different and this book was a good guide on figuring out how to get what I wanted done, done.
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Summary: To become a power user of Golive, read this book!
Review: If you use Adobe Golive to create web sites and want to dig deeper into the powerful program, this book will help you do it.It has 14 projects, along with a companion CD (contains all the necessary data to use in Golive), that will increase your knowledge of Golive and help you to create more advanced web sites. Creating and using text macros, authoring your own javascript actions,
very cool dhtml projects (I really like the online calender), authoring wireless handheld web sites, and setting up your own dynamic content management system using PHP and MySQL (with a sample database included). Some of the projects may seem a bit intimidating to intermediate users like myself, but when I went thru the book,I found that it is layed out so clearly that it became fun to delve into the projects. I am setting up the PHP and mySQL Dynamic link as I write and I have never done it before! A very cool and needed addition to the Golive library.
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Summary: I Really Enjoyed This Book.
Review: If you want to take GoLive a few steps further then this is the book for you. Though this book is not for the novice GoLive user, as somone who considers himself in the intermediate/advanced user category I found it very useful indeed. My biggest problem was installing the Dynamic Content Servers from the GoLive CD so that I could work through the "Building a Dynamic Content Management System using PHP and MySQL" Project! Author Paul Vachier brings in "GoLive Superstars" such as Rob Keniger as contributors to great advantage. I have really enjoyed working through the tutorials which are very well edited. Often I get frustrated with books like these because I find that the text does not always match up with the practical steps to be taken. However in GoLive 6 Magic they matched very well indeed. I actually had fun doing it. And now after working through "Creating Quicktime Sniffers" to "Displaying Random Images and URLs" to "Building Dynamic Content" and the other 11 tutorials I think that I am a much more skilled user. What more can I ask?
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Summary: Great information, makes the magic easy.
Review: Not for beginners. This book is for people who are familiar with GoLive and want to add some real magic to their Web sites. It is written really well, covers 14 topics that are easy to understand, and would take you months to work out on your own.
The CD is really useful with actions, scripts and really sensible and useful assistance.
A great book if you are already familiar with GoLive.
Mr. Vachier knows of what he speaks. I read his Dreamweaver for Dummies, which brought me to this one.
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Summary: advanced productivity
Review: Paul Vachier has put together an excellent book to get more - much more - out fo GL6. This is not a thick book in the "bible" mode, it is a primer on using 14 specific things in GL6 that most of us normally wouldn't know how to use. He walks us through building and creating these projects with clear step-by-step explanations and visual examples. And the great thing is that while these are specific projects, what you learn can be put to use building other things that you need on your sites. The most interesting thing (to me) is that there are other contributors tothe book, and they are clearly named. The people who put together a particular project are listed at the top of the project. The only real problem is that there are only 14 projects in the book.
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Summary: Read this book to get the most out of GoLive
Review: Paul, Rob, and company have written a really fantastic book that explores the more advanced features of GoLive 6. As the co-author of another GoLive book (SAMS Teach Yourself GoLive 6 in 24 Hours) I highly recommend this book if you want to take GoLive to the next level!
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Summary: More Info Needed
Review: Positives: Nice looking book, shiny pages, pretty pictures, easy to follow. Negative: Only teaches you 14 things, does not go over ASP coding only goes over PHP with MySQL backend :(.Even though the
biggest chapter is on dynamic content, it still left me confused being an ASP developer. It also has 2 chapters on WAP technology, which is cool.. but worthless for most people. so that leaves 12 things to learn by buying this book ;)
Overall: This is probably the easiest to follow tech book I have ever bought, but it was very lacking in content. I guess if you want quality over quantity than this is your book, but after reading this book.. I just wanted to know more.
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Summary: This Book Is A definite Winner!
Review: The GoLive 6 Magic book from New Riders looks like a miniature coffee table art book. It contains 244 pages and a CD. I was struck by the beautiful black & white photos of nature at the beginning of each chapter and the multitude of screen shots. The introduction states that Adobe® GoLive 6 is an extremely powerful and easy to use visual web authoring tool popular with high level designers and graphic artists while also empowering web novices and advanced users alike. The author assumes that the reader of this book probably already knows the basics of GoLive but wants to go on to the next level. You want to know about multimedia, creating actions and extensions, building dynamic web sites and coding for hand held devices and more. There are also many time saving tips, tricks, and real-world solutions in the book. More and more people are using hand held devices to access the web and so you have to take into consideration that particular i-Mode. You can test your site on different i-Mode devices (via emulation software) to render the graphical and text content. GoLive 6 Magic was especially timely for me because our User Group web site is being remodeled. Two of the new features we want to incorporate are included in the book: collapsible DHTML menus using ID actions and creating an action to display random images. Collapsible menus afford you to display many items in a limited space. When you roll over a main menu item, it displays a sub-menu of more items with links. The CD contains all the necessary files to perform the various customizable exercises as well as demo versions of related software. The CD opens by double-clicking. I tried the exercise to create collapsible DHTML menus with sub-menus using ID actions. Wow! It was so easy. The book walks you step by step through each project and also displays an accompanying screen shot. I set up the CSS files (Cascading Style Sheets) once and customized my font display. This is better than doing each link one at a time. I used a font family such as: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva and SunSans Regular. Although you can assign any font on your computer to a CSS style, your page's viewers can only see the fonts installed on their computers. You tailor your web page so that all the fonts look good on the page. If the viewer does not have Arial on his computer, it will default to Helvetica if installed and so on. A web designer stays with the fonts that most everyone has installed on both platforms. Well, the project turned out just as it was supposed to and it was easy besides. Besides tips there also were explanations for why you do a certain thing. I'm sold, this book is a definite winner!
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Summary: Good
Review: This book offers tips for the user who is already comfortable with GoLive. It's obviously not intended as an overall tutorial for the program and shouldn't be judged as such. That said, I found the book interesting, but of only limited use. Some of the tutorials were well written and informative, while others are for projects I would just never use. But that's just me. Others may be looking for exactly the thing I'm not interested in. I did find the chapter, 'Building a Dynamic Content Management System' the best offering. As someone who has used PHP and MySQL before, I was quite interested in how GoLive 6 would fit with these technologies.
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