Adobe Golive Cs2 Classroom in a Book

by Adobe Creative Team

When you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and start taking advantage of GoLive CS2's powerful site management and collaboration capabilities, mobile authoring features, and enhanced CSS authoring tools, it’s time to get the guide from the people behind the software. In these pages, The Adobe Creative Team uses a series of project-based lessons to guide you through every feature of GoLive. Working at your own pace, using training materials created and tested in Adobe’s own classrooms and labs, you’ll soon be creating effective, efficient Web sites with GoLive CS2. Step-by-step instructions clearly detail toolbars, palettes, site architecture, CSS, image maps, and more. And plenty of attention has been paid to GoLive CS2’s new features as well: enhanced live rendering, including small-screen rendering for mobile content development; innovative visual CSS authoring and mobile CSS support; visual SVG-Tiny authoring; enhanced site management, and more. Each chapter concludes with a review section to reinforce what you’ve learned, while the companion CD-ROM provides all files and images you need to complete the exercises in each chapter.

417 pages, Paperback

First published November 21, 2005

About the author

The Adobe Creative Team is made up of designers, writers, and editors who have extensive, real-world knowledge of and expertise in using Adobe products. They work closely with the Adobe product development teams and Adobe's Instructional Communications team to come up with creative, challenging, and visually appealing projects to help both new and more experienced users get up to speed quickly on Adobe software products.

Reviews

[Susan Hicks · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book should be titled "Basics in a Book". I bought it as a supplement to the Adobe text which came with the installer CD and was looking for something to dull the confusion I felt in upgrading from version 7 to CS2. If you have the patience to read this book along with the afore mentioned text and also are willing to peruse the GoLive Help and Adobe Support website at length, you may start getting a picture of what GoLive is capable of.

Still, to utilize the bells and whistles you can design into a site with the help of GoLive, you really need something that is more in depth that all the things I've mentioned so far together. Sadly, there are very few texts written about this version, so getting this book seems inevitable.

Lastly, all of this is assuming you have a grasp of HTML to begin with. If you don't, get yourself a book on that first.

Also, beware of the topic "layout grid". It's a bit of a farce that the grid, although touted as a main selling point for this program. will make far more problems than it solves.

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love this program and am amazed at how easy it is to use.