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by Ben Forta
Paperback - 338 pages 2nd Bk&Cd-Rom edition (May 19,1999)
Sams
ISBN: 0672315602
 Maybe you're lucky this book is (currently) out of stock at Amazon. The book was mostly written while
HomeSite 4.0 was still in beta, and too hastily published, with the result that there are screenshots illustrating "features" which were
actually bugs and later solved. The title also confuses, since HomeSite 4.01 was followed by 4.5 - blame Allaire for that confusion, though,
since they did treat version 4.5 as a 'major' version, contrary to industry conventions. If you find yourself in the situation of having to
work with HomeSite 4.0(1) this might be the book for you: HomeSite 4.5 really is very different in many respects and the more recent books
treat that version. However, if you still use version 4.0(1), you may be able to get a second-hand copy.
One additional warning: while this book does a decent job of getting you up to speed with the HomeSite 4.0(1) program, ignore whatever it
tries to teach you about HTML. In that respect it's full of downright wrong or
misleading information (sorry, Ben!) and you really need a good book about
HTML alongside this book.
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The latest of the meagre crop, this book is also aimed at relative beginners. A lot of attention is
given to standard configuration options and how to use (most of) the standard features and tools, none to extensibility. On the other hand,
this book contains useful information about using projects, and working with ASP and CFML. (A pity it doesn't also treat PHP.)
Nick Bradbury, the original developer of the HomeSite program, appears here as the coauthor
of a book about it though at the time of writing he wasn't involved in its development any more. HomeSite was acquired along with Nick as
development director by Allaire, but he left the company later to develop TopStyle (which integrates nicely with HomeSite; a trial version
is included on the CD). I think this book actually does a much better job of getting you up to speed with the program than the older book
below. (Actually, if you already own - or are evaluating - version 4.5, don't even consider the book below
which is about 4.0 only: it won't help with 4.5 very much.)
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