GoLive 5 for Dummies

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Summary: Update to my previous review
Review: After complaining to the publishers and sending a list of mistakes I found in the book, they agreed to refund my money and I also got a letter of apology from the author admiting that there were a lot of faults and that, indeed, it is a hurried rewrite of Golive 4 - great customer service, but sadly flawed book.

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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: GoLive 5 for Dummies is a good book for beginners but not very good for intermediate and advanced. It is not a book you can crawl into bed and read for pleasure. It gave me a good idea about web pages,etc.

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Summary: I'm not so sure about this!
Review: I have quite a few of the Dummies books and am now getting a bit tired of the wit for the sake of wit - the book could have been slimmer, and easier to get through, if they left out the puns. Titles like: "Ladies and gentlemen set your sites!", while amusing does not really help when you're flicking through the book trying to find sections to use with your web site "Creating a site" would have been more useful. Don't get me wrong, I have enjoyed the Photoshop books but this one seemed to hit a nerve. I also thought that it would have been better with a few more illustrations as there was far too much text to illustration ratio (the Peachpit Press books seem to have a good balance). I also found quite a few mistakes and wrote to Dummies about it. Definately not as clear as the usual Dummie books. Lastly, they show how to add a Quick Time file but not FLASH (which uses far less space on your site).

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Summary: no good
Review: The dummies books are good until this one. It is difficult to start with golive but this book did not draw the pieces together so to speak. It was cofusingly written. In some cases, you can actually do the same commands etc in different ways and this book listed them in many different places instead of bringing them together. Also try to look up some in the index and I could not find them. Too much text and not enough visuals. I was to own it but sent it back as I was pretty disgusted with the book and the haphazardly written approach. ...

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Summary: Perfect for what it is intended for
Review: This is only the second "Dummies" book I have ever purchased. Being as I was having a lot of trouble with the manual for GoLive 5.0, I decided to get this book to get me over a few hurdles. Mainly the interface was quite confusing compared to Dreamweaver, which I have used for 3 years. This book is not for the advanced user, or even for the user of Adobe GoLive 4.0. This book is for the complete beginner to web design or the Dreamweaver (or comparable editor) user who is finding the transition difficult. By spending 3 days with this book and Adobe GoLive 5.0, I was almost back up to full speed again. The text flows nicely and is well written, in a concise order. All in all this book lives up to its name 100%, because I felt like a Dummy until I read it. There is NO Dynamic Link text within it's pages, but I would expect one of the more advanced books to cover this in depth, not a "Dummies" book.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who is having problems finding pallettes or features that were easy to find in your current editor, or if you're new to web design. It takes the manual and puts it all into a more understandable format, while opening a few doors the manual left out.

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Summary: Quantam Leaps
Review: While they start with A-B-C's... they leap to E-F-G without including D. While you're flipping back to see where you missed it (it wasn't there) they leap to L-M-N-O and you can't figure out how.
The book should be named "GOLIVE -- TO MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE DUMMIES."
Because that's how you end up feeling when you file the bookstore receipt.

Rating:
Summary: Quantam Leaps
Review: While they start with A-B-C's... they leap to E-F-G without including D. While you're flipping back to see where you missed it (it wasn't there) they leap to L-M-N-O and you can't figure out how.
The book should be named "GOLIVE -- TO MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE DUMMIES."
Because that's how you end up feeling when you file the bookstore receipt.