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Summary: A Complete Web Development Guide for ALL FrontPage Users
Review: ......If you use FrontPage 2002 and want to get the most out of it, this is your book. Buyens covers nearly every important aspect of Web development from site planning to development and deployment. He teaches you how to use FrontPage to do this and fills in the gaps (that any WYSIWYG development tool will leave). The topics include: every aspect of FrontPage 2002 (given), building and managing whole Web sites, design conventions (fonts, colors, graphics, etc.), Cascading Style Sheets, HTML, forms, Web server info, Active Server Pages, database usage, and a host of others. He gives lots of code snippets that you need as well as tips and tricks; intermediates and beginners will benefit greatly from this. More advanced topics like ASP and ADO are given a good introduction if you want it. The CD adds several bonus chapters of advanced content and tools.
......At first scan, I was a little overwhelmed with the whole book. When I finally sat down to go through the whole book (and actually read it) each chapter made great sense. I was able to skim a few sections that I knew well, but still got some helpful "inside" information from them. This book is very comprehensive and is not overly technical.
......I recommend it both for the IT pro who wants complete control over his/her Web site design and management and for enthusiastic beginners (and everyone in between). If you just want to create simple Web pages like Word docs, I suggest something like _Front Page, Step by Step_ instead. If you want to use FrontPage to create dynamic, quality, and easy to maintain Web sites, this is your COMPLETE reference.
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Summary: The best guide so far
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There's a lot of information in this book, to help both the neophyte and the upgrading user. The step-by-step approach is practical and helpful, and as complete a guide as one might expect on software.
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Mr. Buyens also offers his web address, where one can view corrections and clarifications to the book's contents.
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I would have given it 5 stars if it contained additional information on how FP2002 works in background tasks.
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Highly recommended.
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Summary: FrontPage 2002 Inside Out and All Around
Review: As a novice in Computer Technology, I found this book most helpful in my first endeaver at creating a Website with Frontpage 2002. It takes you from the very basics and goes several steps further. It's a good buy for the price and from what I have seen of several other books, I felt I got my money's worth and more.
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Summary: I though I knew FrontPage until I read this book.
Review: As the arrival of Office XP is here so too are a new set of applications and the learning of the application features are imperative to making sure you are getting the most out of the application possible. Since Microsoft created the application, it's no surprise that they are the first to produce a book to help you out. The book takes Front Page 2002 apart step by step and module by module. The author has gone to great pains to make sure that every part of the application is broken down and explained so there is no doubt of how and why things work the way they do. From the beginning of this 1200 plus page book you cover topics such as planning the website, using wizards to create sites automatically, editing the basic page, how to publish and the structuring of the web pages. From there you move on to areas like animation within the page, database integration, personal web server and active X controls. The cdrom included has bonus section like active server pages, visual basic applications and creating your own customized copy of Front Page. Overall there is a great deal of information in this book. While the book is tailored for the intermediate to advanced user there is bound to be something in here for everyone.
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Summary: Improving, but not there yet
Review: Compared to Running Frontpage 2000 by the same author, this book has eliminated a lot of the blather. Instead of unremitting praise, the author now even admits some of the limitations of Frontpage. There is a lot of detail here, but the book is still a jigsaw puzzle if you want to answer a question or put something together. To add to this difficulty, about 270 pages of the book are on the CD. A lot of this CD material is basic, so you now not only have to flip pages, but spin the CD to explore a topic. Not a winner.
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Summary: Used this book and now have 3 money-making sites.
Review: I had no experience building web sites when I bought Jim Buyen's book "FrontPage INSIDE OUT". In just a few weeks, I had my first site up and running. Two more sites quickly followed. The book is 1000+ pages of invaluable information. Plus, the book comes with a CD for viewing on your computer. The cost-to-value ratio of this book is also good. One tip the author included about "Adding Favorites" icons to user's browsers was worth the cost of the book alone. Don't be intimitated by the size of this book. As you improve your knowledge, things become crystal clear.
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Summary: Used this book and now have 3 money-making sites.
Review: I had no experience building web sites when I bought Jim Buyen's book "FrontPage INSIDE OUT". In just a few weeks, I had my first site up and running. Two more sites quickly followed. The book is 1000+ pages of invaluable information. Plus, the book comes with a CD for viewing on your computer. The cost-to-value ratio of this book is also good. One tip the author included about "Adding Favorites" icons to user's browsers was worth the cost of the book alone. Don't be intimitated by the size of this book. As you improve your knowledge, things become crystal clear.
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Summary: Get This Book
Review: I just got this manual, and am pretty impressed at how in depth it is. The main reason to get this is the bonus CD. In includes Add-Ins not included in the FP2k2 software, and takes you step by step through all the features including the advanced options like installing plug-ins, etc. It's a big book, but I am using it as more of a reference manual. Plus the price is pretty good too.
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Summary: 100% satisfied.
Review: I must say, this book was the perfect solution for me. I had a background in object-oriented programming (visual c++), but absolutely NO experience WHATSOEVER with web/internet programming. At first, I thought my goal was a little out of reach. I wanted to create a database-driven website that could recieve thousands of hits a day yet stay under my ISP's traffic limit of 5Gb per month. To top it all off, I wanted to start from scratch and have it all ready to go within 2 weeks. This book was my savior. Every single problem I encountered was covered in intricate detail. What really separated this book from the countless other frontpage books I tried was its explanation of database relationships and how to work around the standard conventions. Also, most people say that frontpage is too limited graphics-wise. That is true if you follow frontpage conventions, however, this book (along with the newsgroups on microsofts's website) will teach you how to "tweak" the code to get almost any result you want. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Misleading
Review: I rate myself as an extremely competent user of FrontPage 2002, and yet I battled so much with this book that I sent it back. It should be made clear by the publishers that the book is only for advanced web designers.
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