When you're ready to roll up your sleeves and start taking advantage of GoLive CS' powerful site management and collaboration capabilities, wireless authoring features, and dynamic database 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 aspect of GoLive's use. 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 CS. Step-by-step instructions clearly detail toolbars, palettes, site architecture, Cascading Style Sheets, image maps, and more. And plenty of attention has been paid to GoLive CS' new features as enhanced Smart Object capabilities, advanced CSS authoring and previewing, streamlined print-to-Web production, and more. Each chapter concludes with a review section to reinforce what you've learned, and a CD-ROM provides the files and images needed to complete the exercises.
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.
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.