Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003: The Complete Reference (Osborne Complete Reference Series)

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Summary: Little Coverage of New 2003 Features
Review: I was dissapointed with this book because it really doesn't document or explain many of the new features in Frontpage 2003 --particularly the database and Windows 2003 Server Sharepoint Services capabilities. The chapter on forms does not explain how to integrate the form with a database, giving the excuse to see a later chapter. The later chapter on databases then states that most database features are out of scope of the book. How about starting with some basic coverage of how to setup Frontpage 2003 to work with sharepoint team services? If you don't do it right, you simply get an error message from Frontpage stating that these features don't work because one has to have a server. I got the distinct impression that the authors have never really used Frontpage 2003, wrote most of the content based on earlier versions of Frontpage, and relied too much on Microsoft's skimpy Frontpage 2003 documentation for the new features.