Rating:  - Great resource if you need to know GoLive
I know HTML and even some CSS, I just needed to know how to bring it all together in GoLive. This book gave me exactly what I needed. This book would not be a good choice on its own if you did not have some basic web knowledge. If you have little or no web experience I would suggest getting one of the basic html visual quickstart guides from Peachpit press and then venturing into this book.
Rating:  - Go Live Lessons
Good step-by-step teaching manual. Index is not as well done as the book. Finding help with problems is, therefore, not as easy.
Rating: - excellent
The book is a step by step educational wed creator. It will teach you how and why things are created in GoLive. I recommend this book if you need to learn web creation.
Rating: - A Fine Book on Go Live, but GoLive is not right for me
After using Frontpage for many years, I thought I would give Golive a try (after all it came with the CS2 suite). This book did the job I needed done in teaching me how to use GoLive, but I decided to return to using Frontpage after reading the book and experimenting with GoLive.
I know that Frontpage gets a lot of bad press (I currently use 2003, and do not plan to upgrade for quite awhile). Frontpage is just so much easier for me to use than spending all of the extra time I would need to learn GoLive as well as I would need to in order to use it effectively.
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Rating:  - Adobe builds great programs & writes horrible manuals
It is an unfortunate fact that Adobe's own documentation of its programs is BY FAR inferior to that written by outside experts. This is not a big problem with programs with a wide user base (such as Photoshop) which has countless excellent books written about it. It is a problem, though, with programs, like Go Live, which have a limited user base. This is not a reference book or a manual, it is a set of lessons that may (or may not) address your area of interest.
This book is, unfortunately, the only book available on the program and it is, to put it charitably, short of adequate. You pretty much have to buy it since its the only game in town, but it doesn't really give you an understanding of the program so you can venture outside of the areas they have chosen to explain.
Speaking for myself, I found it useless (for my particular needs). I am an advanced Photoshop user, an intermediate In Design user, an illustrator dabbler but none of that Adobe experience was any help at all. My only web site building experience came from Microsoft Front Page (now discontinued) and I wanted to be able to migrate my existing (and very basic) website to Go Live (which I already own as part of the Suite) and edit it and update it from there. I have very limited HTML knowledge and Front Page was ideal for my needs. Go Live is, obviously, way above my skills and this book doesn't help me understand it any better.
For my purposes, it rates 0 stars, but I gave it 3 assuming that someone who does have the necessary HTML, CSS, etc. knowledge might find some of the lessons interesting.
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