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Summary: A MANUAL TO EXPLAIN IT ALL
Review: After using Front Page 2001 and 2002 for 9 months, I have finally found a book that is comprehensive, informative and written for the "average joe". I am an online retailer that has a FP generated website. Although I was pleased with FP already, the FP Bible 2002 gave me the insight and ammunition I needed to make my good site, fantastic! Highly recommend this book. (If you have never used Front Page before, I recommend getting a more basic book like "Front Page for Dummies" or "Front Page for Busy People" for a beginning reference.)
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Summary: A MANUAL TO EXPLAIN IT ALL
Review: After using Front Page 2001 and 2002 for 9 months, I have finally found a book that is comprehensive, informative and written for the "average joe". I am an online retailer that has a FP generated website. Although I was pleased with FP already, the FP Bible 2002 gave me the insight and ammunition I needed to make my good site, fantastic! Highly recommend this book. (If you have never used Front Page before, I recommend getting a more basic book like "Front Page for Dummies" or "Front Page for Busy People" for a beginning reference.)
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Summary: A MANUAL TO EXPLAIN IT ALL
Review: After using Front Page 2001 and 2002 for 9 months, I have finally found a book that is comprehensive, informative and written for the "average joe". I am an online retailer that has a FP generated website. Although I was pleased with FP already, the FP Bible 2002 gave me the insight and ammunition I needed to make my good site, fantastic! Highly recommend this book. (If you have never used Front Page before, I recommend getting a more basic book like "Front Page for Dummies" or "Front Page for Busy People" for a beginning reference.)
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Summary: Great reference!
Review: I teach Electronic Commerce at Mountain View College of the Dallas County Community College District. My classes include lab assignments using FrontPage. Students are very creative and go far beyond the assignments. Sometimes, the lab assistants cannot answer their questions. They asked me for a reference. I asked Scott Sample [a great trainer, very knowledgable about Microsoft products] to recommend a book. He told me about the FrontPage Bible. I agree! The FrontPage Bible is a great reference. I have reviewed many textbooks, but none compare to the FrontPage Bible. If you really want to learn FrontPage, use the FrontPage Bible.
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Summary: Great reference!
Review: I teach Electronic Commerce at Mountain View College of the Dallas County Community College District. My classes include lab assignments using FrontPage. Students are very creative and go far beyond the assignments. Sometimes, the lab assistants cannot answer their questions. They asked me for a reference. I asked Scott Sample [a great trainer, very knowledgable about Microsoft products] to recommend a book. He told me about the FrontPage Bible. I agree! The FrontPage Bible is a great reference. I have reviewed many textbooks, but none compare to the FrontPage Bible. If you really want to learn FrontPage, use the FrontPage Bible.
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Summary: This "Bible" is missing a few verses!
Review: The cover of the book states "100% -COMPREHENSIVE- AUTHORITATIVE- WHAT YOU NEED- ONE HUNDRED PERCENT". Now call me naïve, but to me that statement means this book has everything I could possibly want to know about FrontPage 2002! Unfortunately, that's not the case. I first attempted to find information in the book about subwebs. I hear them referenced quite a bit and wanted to know what they are, how they're used and how to create one. The book makes some vague references to subwebs, but no detailed descriptions about them anywhere. Next I wanted to find out how I can assign passwords to certain web pages to restrict the permissions for browsing pages. The only password information in the book pertains to administration of the web in FrontPage itself and nothing about assigning passwords to users. Lastly I went to the book to learn about SharePoint Team Services. The book has much information about this topic, but under the heading "Administering a SharePoint Site" it reads "Complete coverage of these topics is beyond the scope of this book..." Doesn't 100% include complete coverage? I suppose with a topic as vast as Web design, and especially with a program as big as FrontPage, it would be rather difficult to include every single bit of information one could possibly want or need. But I thought the information for which I was searching would certainly be covered in a ONE HUNDRED PERCENT, COMPREHENSIVE, WHAT YOU NEED- Bible! Maybe I need to find a "Bible" with a cover that boasts "ONE HUNDRED TWENTY PERCENT"?!!
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Summary: This "Bible" is missing a few verses!
Review: The cover of the book states "100% -COMPREHENSIVE- AUTHORITATIVE- WHAT YOU NEED- ONE HUNDRED PERCENT". Now call me naïve, but to me that statement means this book has everything I could possibly want to know about FrontPage 2002! Unfortunately, that's not the case. I first attempted to find information in the book about subwebs. I hear them referenced quite a bit and wanted to know what they are, how they're used and how to create one. The book makes some vague references to subwebs, but no detailed descriptions about them anywhere. Next I wanted to find out how I can assign passwords to certain web pages to restrict the permissions for browsing pages. The only password information in the book pertains to administration of the web in FrontPage itself and nothing about assigning passwords to users. Lastly I went to the book to learn about SharePoint Team Services. The book has much information about this topic, but under the heading "Administering a SharePoint Site" it reads "Complete coverage of these topics is beyond the scope of this book..." Doesn't 100% include complete coverage? I suppose with a topic as vast as Web design, and especially with a program as big as FrontPage, it would be rather difficult to include every single bit of information one could possibly want or need. But I thought the information for which I was searching would certainly be covered in a ONE HUNDRED PERCENT, COMPREHENSIVE, WHAT YOU NEED- Bible! Maybe I need to find a "Bible" with a cover that boasts "ONE HUNDRED TWENTY PERCENT"?!!
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Summary: Good book, but watch out for errors
Review: This book generally lives up to its reputation. It has good coverage of FrontPage from the basics to fairly advanced techniques involving databases, client-side scripting, and ASP scripting. I found most of the answers I have been looking for to build better webs with FrontPage. I would have rated this book higher if I had been more impressed with its Web support sites. For example, Tutorial 20-2 has an error in the onSubmit event handler. That's okay, so long as I can download a correction from the Web. But the data file on the authors' and publisher's support sites not only fails to correct the error, but the code in the file doesn't match the tutorial in the book. That's a weak feature of an otherwise good book.
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Summary: FrontPage ...The Bible and 2002
Review: Wow, did you see the Amazon price? That makes this edition of the Elderbrock and Karlin FrontPage 2002 a bargain of (excuse me please) Biblical proportion. I liked it at retail. In fact the Bible has been a constant companion and, like the rod and the staff, it's comforted me on my walk through the valley to the web site world. All puns aside, this reference/tutorial is a valuable, even necessary tool to me as a "would be" web builder. Even now that it has guided me through from interest in the medium of the web creation to the actual building and launching of several (paid) sites, I wouldn't let it go. Mainly because there is so much more to absorb and to implement into site construction than I've learned so far. That's one of the beauties of the Bible, it's useful for your multiple stages of development. I want to get into database site work and there's a good section covering that aspect, for instance. Read it to get some sites up and running quickly and read it some more to expand them. And the authors aren't expecting us to become biblists either, they readily and often offer links and URL's to additional sources of information. Karlin maintains a web site with a candid discussion board about Front Page, the book and related topics, that I've gone to frequently for support and tutelage. Instead of a included CD to pay for(they have to cost something) the Bible has set up a web site with chapter examples separate from the discussion board site for downloads as needed. It makes sense to me for a web building book to use the web to deliver information. While no book (and this one does a good job) can cover everything that you happen to think of trying at any given time, especially in the terminology or lack of it you're thinking in; the index is pretty thorough. Although in my humble opinion all of today's technology books should slow down and pay up to get a really, really good index for their information. Maybe adopt yesterday's academic standards for today's technology writings. Meanwhile the Bible has good info on including Flash and video on your FrontPage site, templates to use or not to use, and guidance as well as detailed instruction on everything you are going to learn this year about a FrontPage web site. For me it is bibliotherapeutic to the anxieties of tackling the mysteries of site creation. (had to do one more, sorry.)
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