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Summary: HORRENDOUS. One of the WORST purchases I've ever made.
Review: I read the review of another unhappy purchaser who said this book was "organized" like a dictionary. I think that's a compliment WAY beyond what is appropriate. This book is BY FAR the most DISORGANIZED book (or any other medium used to teach a subject) that I've ever read, bar none. Another reviewer said he returned it. If I hadn't marked through it with a highlighter in an ATTEMPT to learn, I'd do the same. Before you purchase this book, please be advised that reading it is akin to having someone throw a jig-saw puzzle on the floor and then telling the audience, "Now for pieces to this part, go to this corner of the room." The book is TOTALLY DISORGANIZED and, as the same reviewer referenced above points out, many of the important topics are on the CD (ironically described as a "bonus"). If I could only get a dime for every, "For more information on xxxx, see page xx," I could retire. The only thing that is done less is praise Microsoft on it's development of Front Page. Well, let me quit venting and try and purchase another book on Front Page that will help me. I think I'm going to a live bookstore, however, so I can see first-hand this time. I don't want another TOTAL WASTE OF MONEY like this purchase was for me.
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Summary: Best all round investment in Frontpage
Review: In terms of topic range and coverage, quality of explanations and general layout, this book must be the best value available on Frontpage. The coverage of database integration will get anyone, and I mean anyone, up and running with a database backed website. If you need more bells and whistles, there're laid out here. Like all the Inside Out books, the text is worth buying just to have the ebook on CD available. It is a great bonus having the ebook accessible in a browser while you're probing a particular implementation. If you need to know how to use Frontpage professionally, this is the book to purchase. I have two other well known Frontpage books which I evaluated for academic courses, and this book towers over both.
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Summary: Best all round investment in Frontpage
Review: In terms of topic range and coverage, quality of explanations and general layout, this book must be the best value available on Frontpage. The coverage of database integration will get anyone, and I mean anyone, up and running with a database backed website. If you need more bells and whistles, there're laid out here. Like all the Inside Out books, the text is worth buying just to have the ebook on CD available. It is a great bonus having the ebook accessible in a browser while you're probing a particular implementation. If you need to know how to use Frontpage professionally, this is the book to purchase. I have two other well known Frontpage books which I evaluated for academic courses, and this book towers over both.
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Summary: Inside Out - a great resource
Review: Inside Out is an excellent introduction and thorough reference for FrontPage. I used it to create my first web site.
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Summary: As thorough a guide to FrontPage as you can buy!
Review: Jim Buyens has done a superlative job of finding out how FrontPage works and making the tools and techniques pop off the page. This is an immense volume and, while I acknowledge critics who find fault with the organization, I have to say there is not one FrontPage question I've had that has gone unanswered by Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out. If that's the true measure of a technical book's value, then this deserves its five-star rating. Nice work, Jim!
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Summary: Microsoft Frontpage Version 2002 Inside Out
Review: Jim Buyens has written another great book on FrontPage. Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out is 1213 page and over 2 inches thick. Saying it is jam-packed is an understatement. There are hundreds of solutions and great time saving steps. Jim is great for giving you the straight scoop on everything; he is very detailed and easy to read. Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out is jam-packed with screen shoots. There are an abundance of Tips, Notes and Troubleshooting guides throughout the book. Both the novice and intermediate will get something out of this book. Experts should be writing books like this. The companion CD is designed to actually work with the book and not put in as an after thought. I have been using FrontPage 2000 for about 2 years and found Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out, an outstanding resource and learn tool. If your office is upgrading to FP2002, you should not be without this book. If you are new to FrontPage then you should defiantly not be with out this book. In fact if you do not purchase Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out when you purchase FrontPage 2002 you WILL regret it. Even if you get this book for NEW FEATURES, you will not regret it.
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Summary: Too much page flipping
Review: This book contains a lot of good information. It's major downfall is that it is not organized very well. It starts explaining a topic but then tells you to flip to another part of the book (or CD) for more information. I found this frustrating and annoying. Instead of going through everything in a logical fashion, it skips around from topic to topic.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This book has all of the answers you need. If you can do it in FrontPage, this book will tell you how.
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Summary: I'd be seriously struggling without it
Review: This book has paid for itself for me, no question. There is a lot of information I didn't need, but there are critical pieces I *did* need, and I was able to find them easily, and the stuff I didn't need was easy to skip over.
The way the book is laid out, it's pretty easy to start at the beginning and read through, and I would recommend this approach, because I didn't find the index that useful. You can pretty quickly tell which sections are relevant to your interests and which are not, so it goes quickly.
While it's easy to imagine this book being better, it doesn't seem reasonable to expect a book like this to *be* better, given how fast they have to crank these books out to keep up with the latest version of bloatware released.
There are two FrontPage books on Amazon, the other one being simpler. God have mercy on anyone who needs a simpler book than this one! If you do, I would steer clear of FrontPage to begin with! I can't believe anyone has any business using a program this powerful if they can't handle a manual written at this level. (I am a very experienced software learner, but definitely not a programmer or technophile.)
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Summary: I'd be seriously struggling without it
Review: This book has paid for itself for me, no question. There is a lot of information I didn't need, but there are critical pieces I *did* need, and I was able to find them easily, and the stuff I didn't need was easy to skip over.
The way the book is laid out, it's pretty easy to start at the beginning and read through, and I would recommend this approach, because I didn't find the index that useful. You can pretty quickly tell which sections are relevant to your interests and which are not, so it goes quickly.
While it's easy to imagine this book being better, it doesn't seem reasonable to expect a book like this to *be* better, given how fast they have to crank these books out to keep up with the latest version of bloatware released.
There are two FrontPage books on Amazon, the other one being simpler. God have mercy on anyone who needs a simpler book than this one! If you do, I would steer clear of FrontPage to begin with! I can't believe anyone has any business using a program this powerful if they can't handle a manual written at this level. (I am a very experienced software learner, but definitely not a programmer or technophile.)
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