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Adobe PageMill user?

You probably have already know
... PageMill is a tremendous success, despite it's various problems. This Adobe program has become one of the most widely used programs on the planet for WYSIWYG page layout of web pages. Thousands upon thousands of people use it every day with great success. It was the first to really come out and embrace the Macintosh interface for HTML generation. It's now available for both platforms, and it you use it, you need this.

The big complaint
...we get from PageMill users, is the fact that Adobe has gotten way too carried away with their own Acrobat product. The entire manual is in pdf format. Obviously the Adobe product planners don't use their own products on a day to day basis.

Thank goodness for Peachpit books and Maria Langer.

They've teamed up and produced the PageMill Visual QuickStart Guide books for both Mac and PC, and they're very, very good. If you use PageMill, you'll need this book. In fact, if you're thinking about purchasing PageMill you should get this book at the same time...in fact -- Adobe should bundle the book WITH PageMill and forget about those pdf files. If you'd like to take a little sample, just look at Maria's TABLES TUTORIAL.

You'll see me evangelizing the Visual QuickStart Guides a great deal here because I believe in them. They teach with pictures rather than lengthy explanations, and you'll be up and running in no time! They're also a trusty companion for even the veterans when those commands just don't seem to come to mind.

We've known that building Web pages has been a tedious and error prone process for all but the hard-core programmers. PageMill includes just about everything you need to create individual pages, forms, and clickable images - all in an environment that hides HTML tags and looks and feels like a normal word processor.

Although PageMill is considered a miracle by some, HTML often eludes even the slick PageMill programming.

You'll be forced to rely on your own know-how. That's where the Quick Start Guides come in. Maria's writing is so clear and friendly -- and the referencing and indexing so easy to use -- you'll find the answers to your questions in half the time it will take to even launch Acrobat -- even IF you had a truck-load of extra megs on the hard drive for the pdf files! (Which I don't!) That's also why PageMill 2 Visual QuickStart Guide has become the WebDesign & Review "Official" handbook for PageMill -- and why it's a FREE book selection when you subscribe to WebDeisgn & Review.

Later, when the Design & Publishing Online Training Center brings its PageMill class online, this is the text book you'll be using.

PageMill users: whether you subscribe and select PageMill 2 Visual QuickStart Guide as your free gift, or order the book directly from Giles Road Press, believe me, you'll be glad you did.


Order the WebDesign/PageMill bundle now through:
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PageMill 2 Visual QuickStart Guide
for Mac or PC
By Maria Langer
ISBN 0-201-88661-8 -- 148 pages - $15.95 US - $22.00 Canada
Peachpit Press, 2412 Sixth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710
800/283-9444

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