Since I have already published my website using GoLive 5 and found that it was a great program to use, I decided to increase my knowledge of some of the basics of the program that I didn't need to use but wanted to investigate further.

The layout of the book is very good. All lessons start with "About this Lesson" and then display all the main points that will be covered. At the end of the lesson there are "Review Questions" and "Review Answers." The first three lessons are very basic and those after cover more specific tasks such as Using Smart Objects and Forms. The book even covers such topics as creating Rollovers and Animation. Thus, even though there are programs that cover in detail animation and rollovers, such as Adobe LiveMotion, one can also create these in GoLive itself. The book also addresses itself to writing Action and Java Scripts and using Cascading Style Sheets.

Within the major lessons of which there are thirteen, there are tangential subjects dealt with in each lesson. For example, in Lesson 4, Using Smart Objects, specific Smart Objects, from Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and LiveMotion are discussed. In Lesson 7, Creating Rollovers, floating boxes, actions to create drop-down items, and hiding floating boxes are a few of the "sub topics" dealt with in this chapter.

While I perused the book in order to write this review, I decided to complete a few of the chapters in depth. All of the lessons are extremely clear with the steps labeled and easy to follow. The repetition of events that occur in many of the lessons cements the process of learning a specific task. As an example, in lesson 07, Creating Rollovers, three buttons are to be completed. The steps are the same but the directions are only given, in detail, for the first button. Thus the reader, has two buttons to create from memory using the same techniques as were applied to the first. At the end of the lesson, some of the review questions are geared toward concepts.

The Adobe GoLive 5 Classroom in a Book can also, as stated earlier, be used as a reference book since it contains an index as well as a table of contents. Just browsing through the chapter on Using Actions and JavaScript, I discovered that I could resize my browser window to fit a particular image. I, also, discovered that I should add certain information to the headers of web pages that have animated floating boxes to be seen correctly in Netscape Navigator. If this sounds like I am speaking a foreign language, then this book should be of great assistance for it highlights through its lessons important aspects of and strengths of GoLive 5.

This book can be purchased for $45.00 at many of the bookstores that carry books about computer as well as online. It is published by Adobe Press. For more information, check the Adobe website at: http://www.adobe.com.

While this last paragraph does not directly discuss the book, I want to state how much I like GoLive 5. In my review of it, I stated that I had used other web building programs prior to GoLive 5. While this program was more powerful than others I had used, it also was easier to use. After using GoLive 5 Classroom in a Book, I also realized how much more I could add to my site to strengthen it and since loading it through FTP to my site and then loading modifications is so easy, I already envision the changes I will make.

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