Real World Adobe Golive 4 (Real World)

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Product Description

Adobe GoLive 4.0 is a full-featured, visual Web page editor that combines powerful site management with support for a host of advanced features, from JavaScript to Flash. Such an industrial-strength program calls for an industrial-strength guide like Real World Adobe GoLive 4.0, which is packed with "under-the-hood" production tips and techniques from two experts in Web design.

This in-depth guide to creating Web sites (in Windows and Mac OS) begins with a thorough description of the GoLive interface--its dialogs, palettes, and tools. You'll learn how to create, edit, and manage your site, and get the most out of the more complex features, such as DHTML and scripting. You'll also find complete coverage of all that's new in GoLive 4.0, including tighter integration of XML and Microsoft Active Server Pages, advanced table-editing features, and the ability to edit QuickTime movies within GoLive.

Amazon.com Review

Real World Adobe GoLive 4 is less like a step-by-step tutorial and more like a manual, but one that tells you how things do work, not necessarily how they should work. It fills in the areas where the official GoLive manual falls short; it's the stuff you need to know after you've become familiar with all the palettes and menus.

The book employs subtle if sardonic humor that helps lighten up the material. But users will find everything they need to know to effectively use GoLive: all the tools to create a page or a site; to manage the site; use tables, frames, plug-ins, JavaScript, cascading style sheets, dynamic HTML, and more. It's a comprehensive guide to GoLive and, since it was written from the point of view of experienced users familiar with every benefit, quirk, and downside of the application, it makes a great reference for troubleshooting.

Authors Fleishman and Carlson recommend not trying to read the book straight through. In the introduction, they outline which chapters are best for beginners, intermediate users (which they believed they were before writing the book), and advanced users (which they believe they are now). They suggest readers scan the book first, focusing on chapters that answer their most pressing questions, and then stay up all night reading the whole book. As they put it, they find learning easier if you "balance efficiency with learning curve ... learn a little and then sit down and produce." For an intermediate user, it's very gratifying to jump to the chapter on grids, for example, and finally realize why things didn't work exactly as expected.

One particularly useful chapter shows how to import, revise, and manage an existing Web site that may have been created by hand-coding or by another HTML editor. The book is loaded with tips and insights and, weighing in at around two and a half pounds, it's a heavyweight in more ways than one. --Angelynn Grant

Topics covered: Basic to advanced features of Adobe GoLive 4, including all palette features; how to create a page and a Web site, manage it, format text and images, and specify color; use tables, frames, plug-ins, JavaScript, dynamic HTML, and cascading style sheets; appendices on issues specific to Macintosh platform and extensive browser compatibility for cascading style sheets.