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Summary: Fine work by author William Stanek
Review: Sams is happy to offer FrontPage 2000 Unleashed as a guide for experienced FrontPage designers and developers. Author William Stanek and a crew of talented FrontPage experts have crafted an excellent resource for anyone looking to move beyond the basics of FrontPage 2000. If you're serious about FrontPage 2000, you'll find FrontPage 2000 Unleashed a valuable addition to your library.
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Summary: The most useful Frontpage 2000 book I've found!
Review: The most thorough Frontpage 2000 book I've found anywhere and I've bought several others. I use this book practically every day in my day to day work!Part I of the book is useful in getting you up to speed on Frontpage 2000 quickly. It has 2 chapters designed as quick lessons to FrontPage 2000. Everything after this moves increasingly to intermediate, advanced and expert areas. Part II of the book covers the essentials of multimedia, tables, frames and image maps. I found the design advice to be sound and helpful. No other Frontpage book I read had these kinds of design tips. Most others focussed on how to point and click. Part III of the book covers all the core features of Frontpage 2000 from themes to style sheets to GIF animation. Again, I found the focus not only on Frontpage use but on sound design refreshing. Chapter 9 on dynamic HTML and Chapter 13 on GIF animation had tips I found nowhere else. Part IV has 5 chapters on forms and form handling that takes you through intermediate, advanced and expert areas. Wonderful! No other book I found had such in depth coverage of forms. Part V covers templates, wizards and webbots. This is pretty basic and beginning. The only chapter I found useful was 24 covering user registration and restricted webs. Part VI covers integration with Office. You'll find separate chapters on integrating Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Access. Chapters 26 and 28 on Excel and Access were the most useful to me personally. I learned several good tricks and just one of these is worth the price of the book. And that's only half the book. Still, 25 chapters and 5 parts to talk about some other time. --HJ
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Summary: Complete, Yet Shallow...?
Review: This is the second "Unleashed" Book that I have purchased, and I find them useful, but choppy. The chapters have different authors, and the continuity suffers from this treatment. Each chapter gives a complete overview of the subject it covers. The key phrase here is "complete overview", as the in-depth detail that many of the new features of FP 2000 has over its predecessors is not there. This is a good overview of FP 2000 for the intermediate user who has used other versions of FP. I would recommend that beginners or advanced users look elsewhere. If you are looking for detailed descriptions or examples of FP 2000's new features, look elsewhere. If you plan on using database integration, ASP, DHTML or CSS and you buy this book -- budget to buy at least one more book to cover these advanced features. In sum, I feel this is a good book for a book report about FP 2000 for a high school class; as a "hands-on" guide for real users, this book is not it.
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Summary: Complete, Yet Shallow...?
Review: This is the second "Unleashed" Book that I have purchased, and I find them useful, but choppy. The chapters have different authors, and the continuity suffers from this treatment. Each chapter gives a complete overview of the subject it covers. The key phrase here is "complete overview", as the in-depth detail that many of the new features of FP 2000 has over its predecessors is not there. This is a good overview of FP 2000 for the intermediate user who has used other versions of FP. I would recommend that beginners or advanced users look elsewhere. If you are looking for detailed descriptions or examples of FP 2000's new features, look elsewhere. If you plan on using database integration, ASP, DHTML or CSS and you buy this book -- budget to buy at least one more book to cover these advanced features. In sum, I feel this is a good book for a book report about FP 2000 for a high school class; as a "hands-on" guide for real users, this book is not it.
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Summary: Complete, Yet Shallow...?
Review: This is the second "Unleashed" Book that I have purchased, and I find them useful, but choppy. The chapters have different authors, and the continuity suffers from this treatment. Each chapter gives a complete overview of the subject it covers. The key phrase here is "complete overview", as the in-depth detail that many of the new features of FP 2000 has over its predecessors is not there. This is a good overview of FP 2000 for the intermediate user who has used other versions of FP. I would recommend that beginners or advanced users look elsewhere. If you are looking for detailed descriptions or examples of FP 2000's new features, look elsewhere. If you plan on using database integration, ASP, DHTML or CSS and you buy this book -- budget to buy at least one more book to cover these advanced features. In sum, I feel this is a good book for a book report about FP 2000 for a high school class; as a "hands-on" guide for real users, this book is not it.
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Summary: The show-how is always better than the tell-all!
Review: We have purchased a couple of other FP2000 books (most notably the ones from Microsoft Press) and none compare to FP2000 Unleashed. Rather than just discussing each feature in the software (as Microsoft Press' book does), FP2000 Unleashed walks the reader through hard-to-grasp concepts like ASP programming and database connectivity. Our knowledge in terms of these subjects is limited, but FP2000 Unleashed has helped immensely in showing us how to set up an online database that connects using ODBC technolgy and active server pages (which was all Greek to us before we received the FP2000 Unleashed book). The important thing to know about this book: It walks the reader through the processes. It doesn't waste time explaning what every little nook and cranny does. It simply lets the reader figure that out by walking the reader through many difficult tasks. Bravo, Unleashed!
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Summary: 30-day trial version of Microsoft FrontPage 2002 included.
Review: You can build a fair web page manually and a better with Word 2002 (however I still use vi for the finer points). But to get a professional grade Site you need professional tools. Many of the tools are proprietary and not portable or supported by many hosts. However Microsoft FrontPage is not restricted to the toy world of Microsoft dominant desk tops masquerading as servers.
I found many useful explanations as well as practical examples in this book and on the CD. I found chapter 45 "Managing UNIX Web Sites" best to explain to someone new to the industry the advantages of having a Shell Account and being able to control your own security. This chapter is also a good lesson on portability. After using FrontPage to build the initial sight you can use the rich UNIX environment to go beyond. Chapter 46 "Using FrontPage with Unix Web Servers" helps show the proper file location conventions. It also covers adjustments that may be needed to accommodate the UNIX environment including case sensitivity, and the preferred use of 4 character extensions when used.
More than just the description of the tool, this book gives you the whole concept of a web site and how squeeze the most out of it using FrontPage 2000.
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