Rating:  - Great
Recieved item on time, right when we were told it would arrive. Book in very good condition.
Rating:  - Kinda lame, but maybe it's the software, not the book
I lost my copy of Dreamweaver software and happened to have a copy of Golive, so I figured I'd try to learn how to use it. I bought this book and went to town. I had a hard time following the instructions because it shows you one little section of the screen at a time and tells you to go there. Well, of course certain menus aren't always visible all the time, so if you don't see what you're looking for right away, you don't know what to click on to make that little section appear. So even with the illustrated manual, I still felt lost quite a bit.
Another drawback is that if you want to look up how to perform one little function, you can't do that.
I guess this book is good for learning how to build the sample site outlined in the book, but it's not great as a reference to use while trying to build your own site.
I finally gave up and bought another copy of Dreamweaver, which handles a lot better and is much more intuitive than GoLive. GoLive is lame.
Rating:  - OOPS! Useful and detailed, but it chaffes my paradigm...
I read through the first chapter, glanced at the others, started on the project in chapter one, then realized something. I use golive because I find the numbered column on the left side extremely useful. I'll bet this software if used to it's full capacity would be excellent in a production environment where you have several websites to build in a very short time. I don't have that affliction.
I also noticed, after dragging and dropping the component parts for the web page, INLINE STYLES IN THE CODE! WHAT? WHY?
I've spent too many years trying to understand what goes on under the hood of a web site and it's pages. GoLive seems to be more of a burden than a help!
Truly, if you know how to write good algorithms, understand css,PHP, javascript, and MySQL, and can organize your files into a folder structure that makes sense to you, why not do it that way?
I'm just saying...
PS: Adobe just announced that it will no longer support GoLive.
Rating: - Good resource
This is a great book for me as I am just starting out using GoLive. It makes it easy to look up a topic and get an understanding fairly quickly.
Rating:  - It did the job!
The manual can be a little confusing, and it skips some details that shouldn't have been left out - but it defintiely does the job of teaching you how to use the application. I slept through my 8 AM digital class in college a little too frequently and missed the entire lecture on GoLive. I bought this textbook, followed the instructions, and after pulling a painful all-nighter, my website layout was complete and everything was working. I even got to leave class early with the professor's permission while other students were troubleshooting!
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