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FrontPage is not a difficult application to learn. It's very use friendly and you can learn a lot without any book at all.
Books mainly are needed when you have to take it to the limits (write complex macros, work with the complex web layout, etc) or to correct its idiosyncrasies. Generally unless you master VBA FrontPage does not give you principal advantages over Dreamwaiver. Not that Dreamwaiver is a good application: after Adobe bought it became a typical Adobe product. And that's say a lot.
FrontPage 2003 is the best and the most advanced version of FrontPage. It supports (better late then never ;-) regular expression in find and replace. Still it is definitely more buggy then FrontPage 2002 (which is very stable). So right now the choice is complex and it might make sense to use both.
Tiffany Edmond's text is rather compact (336 pages) and covers some ground. However, the Inside Out book is available for FrontPage 2003 and pagewise (1264 pages) puts Tiffany book in the shade. Neither covers macro programming is sufficient details, anyway. In this sense both are pretty bad.
In the final analysis, any book on FrontPage requires a supplementary text on scripting (both VBA for macro programming and JavaScript or VBScript for ASP).
Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 The Complete Reference (Osborne Complete Reference Series)
by Martin S. Matthews, Erik B. Poulsen, Carole Boggs Matthews
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Part I: Getting Started |
See also FrontPage 2000 The Complete Reference
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Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 The Complete Reference (Osborne Complete Reference Series)
by Martin S. Matthews, Erik B. Poulsen, Carole Boggs Matthews
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Part I: Getting Started |
See also FrontPage 2000 The Complete Reference
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Special Edition Using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 - Prentice Hall Catalog
Contains a chapter about VBA programming
Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out
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Not too good..., September 24, 2003 | Reviewer: jimborg (see more about me) from Miami Beach, FL |
Basically, I'd say this is for new users - not advanced users. Even for new users - I didn't find it particularly well organized at all. I get the impression it was rushed to print.
Special Edition Using Office Microsoft FrontPage 2003
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Editorial Reviews From the Back Cover This book captures the reality of designing Web sites with FrontPage today. The emphasis is on how to design professional looking sites, how to keep them current with effective content management techniques, and how to do both while working toward the crucial goals of strong communication and interaction. The Designing section of the book takes you through all of FrontPage's features, which is of great value, whether you're a beginning or advanced user. Everything about the software is covered, with increased emphasis in this edition on advanced topics such as scripting, databases, and the design of site interaction. The creation of effective interaction is featured throughout the book, as are the principles of effective communication. The next section, FrontPage Scenarios, takes you stage-by-stage through the design of specific sites, ranging from personal sites to creating and managing a corporate intranet. The accompanying CD provides a FREE copy of Woody's Office Power Pack (WOPR)--the #1 enhancement to Office. This software sells for $49.99 but you get it for free here--no strings attached. About the Author Paul Colligan's site, FrontPage World, is the Internet's most visited site specifically about Microsoft FrontPage. The traffic FrontPage World sees enables Paul to interact with tens of thousands of FrontPage users a month to understand their needs in working with the product. Paul writes a number of FrontPage related newsletters and has co-authored numerous other books on FrontPage. Paul was awarded MVP status from Microsoft in 2002. Visit FrontPage World at frontpageworld. Book Description This book captures the reality of designing Web sites with FrontPage today. The emphasis is on how to design professional looking sites, how to keep them current with effective content management techniques, and how to do both while working toward the crucial goals of strong communication and interaction. The Designing section of the book takes you through all of FrontPage's features, which is of great value, whether you're a beginning or advanced user. Everything about the software is covered, with increased emphasis in this edition on advanced topics such as scripting, databases, and the design of site interaction. The creation of effective interaction is featured throughout the book, as are the principles of effective communication. The next section, FrontPage Scenarios, takes you stage-by-stage through the design of specific sites, ranging from personal sites to creating and managing a corporate intranet. The accompanying CD provides a FREE copy of Woody's Office Power Pack (WOPR)--the #1 enhancement to Office. This software sells for $49.99 but you get it for free here--no strings attached. |
Very Disappointing, November 2, 2003
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Essential FrontPage 2002 for Web Professionals
Based on 4 reviews.
Write a review.TIFFANY K. EDMONDS is owner of Dynamite-IT Web design and a recognized Microsoft FrontPage expert. She owns the world's most active Microsoft FrontPage email forum—FPlist@yahoogroups.com; is co-owner of the AnyFrontPage bytes newsletter (groups.yahoo/AnyFrontPageBytes); and designs and maintains a leading FrontPage tips and tutorials Web site (at-frontpage). Her innovative designs using FrontPage have won numerous awards, including two Netscape "Rage of the Day" awards.
The book we wish we wrote., March 31, 2003
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
The book quickly cuts through a lot of Frontpage flannel in order to expose the best aspects of the application. Topics are presented briskly and intelligently. Personally, I was surprised at how much I got out of it. I was really reluctant to loan it to one of my postgrads which
is the usual indicator of whether I truly value a book or not.
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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
Complete, Yet Shallow...?, January 22, 2000
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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- 952 pages (May 3, 1999)
Osborne McGraw-Hill; ISBN:
007211939X ; Dimensions (in inches): 2.97 x 9.09 x 7.35
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Incredibly useful, June 2, 2000
Reviewer:
Geoffrey Brown (see more about me) from
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.
One of the best books for FrontPage 2000, May 14, 2000
Reviewer:
Fernando Soares (see more about me) from
I bought this book on the recommendation of a friend and I must say
that in most respects he was right. I have used this book for about
six months and I have to say that it has served me well all this time.
The book does a great job at explaining clearly and concisely all the
steps and other related information about FrontPage. I would not only
recommend this book for beginners but also for advanced user that needs
in-depth information to create advanced web sites in FrontPage. It has
been a very useful resource that I would recommend for anyone that is
looking a reference book for Microsoft FrontPage.
A reader from Phoenix, AZ
, April 11, 1999 *****
Solid overview of FrontPage 98 and web authoring basics.
Have had FrontPage 98 on my computer for 6 months and never used it.
Bought David's book and have been very impressed. Has made starting
my own perosnal web site much easier and fun than if I had tried to
start using FrontPage98 without knowing anything. Look forward to reading
more of his books. Great content for people who want to use FrontPage98
to author webpages, but do not want to make a career out of learning
the program.
janine@jzine.com from Los Angeles , March 6, 1999
*****
A good introduction to this complex program
There may be bigger books about FP98 out there, but this one is just
right--all the information you need to get started using the program,
but not an overwhelming flood of data. All the basics and a few bells
and whistles are well covered. Karlin's website and his email support
are also excellent.
Denise Tyler
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ISBN: 1575212234
Published: 17-Jan-1997
Categories: Web Design, Internet Software, FrontPage,
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