Teach Yourself Visually Frontpage 2002

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Summary: Good for absolute beginners to any Office product.
Review: After I read the reviews of "Teach yourself visually frontpage 2000", I decided to purchase this 2002 version. I have not used Frontpage, so I thought learning visually would be easier and faster than using some text format books. However, what I have found is that the book starts with teaching us how to use the tool bar, open files and so on. These explanations sounds a little wordy to me. If you have used any Microsoft Office product and are familiar to managing the tools or fuction keys, you can skip this book. If you do not know how to paste texts or pictures, this book will help you very well. Actually, I was so impressed with the colorful pictures and the teaching method. Just follow the pictures and do what the book says step by step, you will never get lost. Since I have been using Microsoft Word and Excel, I graded this book 3 stars. However, it could be 5 stars to the absolute newcomers.

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Summary: A God Send!
Review: I purchased this book recently because I needed to quickly build a website for my business. I read the reviews, which helped me to make up my mind in choosing this book (over all others on this site for FP 2002) and all were positive. I must say that the minute I cracked open the book I felt as though I were going to accomplish my task and meet my deadline.

This book is full of diagrams, full color pictures and well written instructions. Now I don't have a problem actually reading a book, but I did not have time to go through a bunch of tutorials, as I know other books would have presented. What I received with Ruth Maran's book was a quick way to build my website with the greatest of ease. In addition to that I learned a lot about HTML. Needless to say I am extremely happy with my choice to purchase this book. Following the instructions of this book allowed me to build an 11 page website in exactly 24 hours and 45 minutes with two of the pages being photo galleries. Whew! Ruth Maran helped me to meet my deadline.......Thanks Ruth. Did I mention that I was a novice to web building?

Rating:
Summary: A God Send!
Review: I purchased this book recently because I needed to quickly build a website for my business. I read the reviews, which helped me to make up my mind in choosing this book (over all others on this site for FP 2002) and all were positive. I must say that the minute I cracked open the book I felt as though I were going to accomplish my task and meet my deadline.

This book is full of diagrams, full color pictures and well written instructions. Now I don't have a problem actually reading a book, but I did not have time to go through a bunch of tutorials, as I know other books would have presented. What I received with Ruth Maran's book was a quick way to build my website with the greatest of ease. In addition to that I learned a lot about HTML. Needless to say I am extremely happy with my choice to purchase this book. Following the instructions of this book allowed me to build an 11 page website in exactly 24 hours and 45 minutes with two of the pages being photo galleries. Whew! Ruth Maran helped me to meet my deadline.......Thanks Ruth. Did I mention that I was a novice to web building?

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Summary: Simply THE BEST series
Review: In very few words. This is the best book to learn from. The entire series is incredibly easy to learn from with hundreds of high color pictures. Highly recommended.

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Summary: Ideal Starter Book
Review: Once again, this is the best book out there if you are starting off with this program. I now am using these texts as my standard start-off book whenever I decide to learn a new program. This book, like the other Maran texts, is filled with visual after visual, page after page, so that no matter how troublesome computers are for you, you will be able to follow along. (My mother loves these books and she has been the hardest person to teach computers I've ever encountered.) If you are already a high tech person or already have used the program with some success, you probably can buy a more difficult book instead. If you are a beginner, I think you better get used to the idea that you will be buying more than 1 book when you decide to really learn a program cold. It is very rare to find one book that will "do it" for both beginners, intermediate and advanced users. I will separately review the text I'd recommend for when you are ready to move on to something more difficult. It too will be visual though as I think visually "lite" books are a mistake when it comes to learning computer programs.

Rating:
Summary: Ideal Starter Book
Review: Once again, this is the best book out there if you are starting off with this program. I now am using these texts as my standard start-off book whenever I decide to learn a new program. This book, like the other Maran texts, is filled with visual after visual, page after page, so that no matter how troublesome computers are for you, you will be able to follow along. (My mother loves these books and she has been the hardest person to teach computers I've ever encountered.) If you are already a high tech person or already have used the program with some success, you probably can buy a more difficult book instead. If you are a beginner, I think you better get used to the idea that you will be buying more than 1 book when you decide to really learn a program cold. It is very rare to find one book that will "do it" for both beginners, intermediate and advanced users. I will separately review the text I'd recommend for when you are ready to move on to something more difficult. It too will be visual though as I think visually "lite" books are a mistake when it comes to learning computer programs.

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Summary: Fine Tutorial and Introduction
Review: So, my 2002 New Years resolution is--belatedly enough--to learn how to make WEB pages. And since I'm too crotchety and math-phobic and A.D.D. to study HTML and Java, Front Page seemed like a decent idea.

Enter this book, with its Day-Glo illustration, its comfortingly step-by-step explanations, its almost-comic refusal to take for granted ANY computer knowledge on my part (I'm shocked the book doesn't tell me where to look for my computer's power button).

It's like a 1st grade reading primer; and so, for a guy like me (with decent mouse & typing speed, but scant little intuitive computing instinct) BINGO.

Chapters are sensibly divied up into procedural lessons (you start with the very basic and move up), and the sections inside the chapters tell you--in large, yet somehow uncondescending type--what each lesson will cover. CHANGE APPEARANCE OF TEXT, for example, or CREATE A LINK TO A WEB PAGE AREA, or INTRODUCTION TO IMAGES.

And the color really does help, I think. You'll instantly recognize the book illustrations from your own color screens; nothing is lost in the translation from monitor to manual (not always the case with the "Dummies" guide series, e.g.).

The book is more expensive than some of its competition (all that pricey Technicolor ink, methinks), but I'm quite happy with my choice here overall.

I'm not sure how well I'll do with this software and my New Years resolution commitment, but if I drop the ball it won't be because of the book, which seems like a good introduction for the beginning WEB designer. Enough said.

Rating:
Summary: Fine Tutorial and Introduction
Review: So, my 2002 New Years resolution is--belatedly enough--to learn how to make WEB pages. And since I'm too crotchety and math-phobic and A.D.D. to study HTML and Java, Front Page seemed like a decent idea.

Enter this book, with its Day-Glo illustration, its comfortingly step-by-step explanations, its almost-comic refusal to take for granted ANY computer knowledge on my part (I'm shocked the book doesn't tell me where to look for my computer's power button).

It's like a 1st grade reading primer; and so, for a guy like me (with decent mouse & typing speed, but scant little intuitive computing instinct) BINGO.

Chapters are sensibly divied up into procedural lessons (you start with the very basic and move up), and the sections inside the chapters tell you--in large, yet somehow uncondescending type--what each lesson will cover. CHANGE APPEARANCE OF TEXT, for example, or CREATE A LINK TO A WEB PAGE AREA, or INTRODUCTION TO IMAGES.

And the color really does help, I think. You'll instantly recognize the book illustrations from your own color screens; nothing is lost in the translation from monitor to manual (not always the case with the "Dummies" guide series, e.g.).

The book is more expensive than some of its competition (all that pricey Technicolor ink, methinks), but I'm quite happy with my choice here overall.

I'm not sure how well I'll do with this software and my New Years resolution commitment, but if I drop the ball it won't be because of the book, which seems like a good introduction for the beginning WEB designer. Enough said.

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Summary: What a novelty, an actual beginners book.
Review: There are 15 chapters to this book; I just completed the last one tonight.

What a joy!

First, this is a book for beginners that is actually easy to follow and I never felt like I was reading an intermediate or advanced book masquerading as a beginner's book. The color illustrations throughout the book really do aid in one's comprehension.

Equally important - I never ran across a single error. I've read and tried to follow computer books that have you follow along, only to have you end up with an example not working and, therefore, confusing you. This book was error free - every example I tried (and I tried every one) worked.

As I said this is a beginner's book. If you're much beyond beginner level, you should probably look for something a bit more advanced.

To the author - Ruth Maran - well done, exceptionally well done! I hope you write one for the next version of FrontPage.