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Summary: Incredibly useful
Review: I had built a number of web sites using native HTML and one using FP2000 intuitively, without any books to follow. My impression of FP2000 at that time was that it was a little bit like Geocities -- quick and dirty, easy templates, that's it.Then, a client insisted that I build his business site using FP2000. At that point, I bought this book and started using it. The book was a MAJOR eye-opener about the capabilities of FP2000, and I was like a kid in a candy store while building that site -- largely because of this book! The book is easy to read (I actually read it cover-to-cover, all 930 pages), although there is definitely a major jump in difficulty when the section on ASP begins. There's no doubt in my mind that this book is worth every one of the five stars I awarded it. The places where I had minor problems with it were trivial compared with the help it offered. To show how trivial they were, here were my MAJOR problems with the book: (1)I found the discussions of IP addressing (127.0.0.n and 10.0.0.n on pages 815 and 891) somewhat contradictory. (2)I use a lot of Adobe Acrobat stuff on my sites, and was disappointed not to see even an index entry for that extremely common medium. In fact, it would have been nice if they had acknowledged more of the sources of content that many, many people use -- like Paint Shop Pro. (3) It was a little annoying that all books recommended for further reading were those published by McGraw Hill -- even when a book published by, say, O'Reilly is THE authoritative book on a subject. (However, that's typically not the author's fault, usually it's the fault of a publisher who gets a little greedy.) Summary: if you're thinking about building a web site in FP2000, you should get this book. If you build web sites and you think FP2000 isn't worth considering for building serious web sites, you REALLY should get this book. The book, and my experience with it, actually convinced me to convert some of the native HTML sites I built and still maintain to FP2000 to make the maintenance task easier.
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Summary: HELP!
Review: i haven't actually read this book, or even bought it. i have howver got FP2000 and have learnt how to use it more or less, is this book useful for someone like myself?
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Summary: Best book for frontpage
Review: I picked up this book because I'm going back to China to work on web sites. I've used Frontpage 98 before, but Frontpage 2000 is complex. This book is excellent! It has everything on Frontpage. I've read it once already and will read the good chapters (ASP, database) again on the plane. I already know everything about Fp 2000!
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Summary: Great reference book
Review: I recommend the book to a hands-on, with some previous experience individual. This is nor a introductory course (so don't really take the selling pitch " The only book you need..." at face value), neither a book at the high end of details, but what a reference book should be. Good overview of Internet standards, and then a logical step by step guide through the development "bells" for a site. Brief (and that's the word) intro on ASP and Active X. There are other better books that will take you from here on these technologies. Overall, good value.
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Summary: Lacking in some key areas
Review: I'm a beginning user of Front Page 2000, and was having some problems filling in the gaps of Microsoft's official publications, so I bought this book. While somewhat comprehensive, there are some key areas that are lacking. 1. There is no section, and virtually no mention of cross-browser compatibility. This was a significant problem I was having, as my pages looked fine to me, but AOL & Netscape users were seeing crazy fonts, strange tables, etc. This book assumes that everyone uses Internet Explorer. 2. It just skims the surface of the intricacies of using tables, which are used extensively in web pages. 3. I found the format somewhat annoying, in that anytime you looked up a feature, instead of just explaining how it works in detail, it makes you build a web page using that feature in order to see it. This is very time consuming when you're just looking for simple answers. 4. The "Free CD of software" is pretty much worthless. All it contains is free and shareware easily found on the web, and in more currrent versions. 5. Some simple things are just simply missing. I wanted to know how to make thumbnails of my photos using Front Page's auto-thumbnail feature. I could find no mention of this anywhere in the index or TOC. It may be in this thick volume somewhere, but I could never find it. It does contain a ton of information, just not as "Complete" a reference as I would have hoped.
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Summary: Lacking in some key areas
Review: I'm a beginning user of Front Page 2000, and was having some problems filling in the gaps of Microsoft's official publications, so I bought this book. While somewhat comprehensive, there are some key areas that are lacking. 1. There is no section, and virtually no mention of cross-browser compatibility. This was a significant problem I was having, as my pages looked fine to me, but AOL & Netscape users were seeing crazy fonts, strange tables, etc. This book assumes that everyone uses Internet Explorer. 2. It just skims the surface of the intricacies of using tables, which are used extensively in web pages. 3. I found the format somewhat annoying, in that anytime you looked up a feature, instead of just explaining how it works in detail, it makes you build a web page using that feature in order to see it. This is very time consuming when you're just looking for simple answers. 4. The "Free CD of software" is pretty much worthless. All it contains is free and shareware easily found on the web, and in more currrent versions. 5. Some simple things are just simply missing. I wanted to know how to make thumbnails of my photos using Front Page's auto-thumbnail feature. I could find no mention of this anywhere in the index or TOC. It may be in this thick volume somewhere, but I could never find it. It does contain a ton of information, just not as "Complete" a reference as I would have hoped.
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Summary: Best reference for MSFP I have come across
Review: I've used FP since 1997. Each year I have purchased at least one reference book to help me optimize the product features. Most of the time, these books end up on my shelf because the instructions are more like stereo instructions. This book is one that I refer to regularly AND plan to purchase subsequent editions of. Directions are easy to follow and it is organized and indexed so that items are easy to find. The page layout is clear and clean. I would recommend this product to any level user of MSFP.
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Summary: Tough book to rate
Review: If you are truly just buying it to learn to use FP, I suppose the book deserves more than a 1. If you got conned into thinking that you might learn even one iota of ASP or Database Connectivity from these two HORRIBLE chapters, you would give it less than a one. As for the FP stuff, it does cover almost all the features, but seldom gets into the nitty gritty, so after you learn FP from a surface point of view, this book is practically useless. This is hardly a good reference book.
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Summary: Personal Web Server Woes
Review: OK, so the book doesn't really deserve a 3. I just wanted to vent. Is it just me, or did anyone else find the (non)treatment of how Personal Web Server works maddening. The authors state that they assume throughout the book that the reader will have PWS running. Fair enough...but how about a little more detail on how to make that happen! At least a mention somewhere, anywhere, that the Front Page Server Extensions need to be installed on PWS (that setup doesn't handle that little detail) would have been helpful! I spent 2 hours on the Microsoft web trying to figure that one out. And maybe just a few words on how PWS behaves, what web folders really are, all that basic stuff. Anyway, I hope the remaining 800 pages are a litlle more "newbie" friendly.
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Summary: Tough book to rate
Review: Showed me things about Frontpage I never knew, and got me cranking out web pages they way I finally wanted them to look. I won't give it 5 stars because the book got wordy at times and rambled on a bit on some topics, but overall you'll learn a great deal.
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