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FrontPage
2000 for Dummies
The whole world is watching! In
the past few years, the Inte rnet
has given us unprecedented publishing opportunities, and
Microsoft has made it easier than ever to reach like-minded
souls across the Web with FrontPage, its Web publishing
application. If you're new to the world of Web design, FrontPage
2000 for Dummies can walk you through each step of the
process with grace and good humor--though you may need to get
a more comprehensive reference if you want to explore the
intricacies of HTML.
The writing is
clear, funny, and well-organized, moving from tool to tool
with plenty of tips and tricks crammed in along the way. You
learn the secrets of everything from basic file manipulation
to multimedia, themes, and image maps. Unfortunately, the
writing isn't well-complemented with images; the shortage of
screenshots is a serious flaw for visual learners.
The book's
accompanying CD-ROM is packed with shareware and trial
software: Netscape 4.05, Paintshop Pro, WinZip, and plenty
more. You'll also find sample files, bonus chapters, and the
URLs mentioned within the text. FrontPage 2000 for Dummies
is a good, basic introduction and a refreshing supplement to
the often dry text found in other Web publishing books--but
even the dumbest FrontPage user will probably need more than
this. --Rob Lightner
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 Step
by Step FrontPage 2000
If you haven't created a Web site before, you'll probably want
to use a Web authoring tool like Microsoft FrontPage 2000. Yet
even with a novice-friendly tool like FrontPage 2000, you'll
need some help. Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Step by Step
will tutor you through many of FrontPage 2000's components and
options, allowing you to build your site without actually
having to learn HTML.
Microsoft FrontPage 2000
Step by Step walks you through the site design process.
You quickly learn how to create new Web sites and make them
viewable on the Web with or without FrontPage Server
extensions. Besides the basics of Web page creation, the book
also covers the application of FrontPage themes to a site,
using cascading style sheets, incorporating FrontPage
components such as a marquee, a hit counter, page banner, and
table of contents. The forms and frames tools are covered in
exceptional detail.
The book's strength lies in the
high level of interactivity the text plays with the
accompanying CD-ROM. Each lesson in the book (each chapter
comprises a lesson) has one or more related instructional
files on the CD-ROM. To bring a story line to the tutorial,
the book places you in the position of a Web developer
designing for a number of clients. The files on the CD-ROM
allow you to jump into a project and work with the featured
tools without having to create all of the pages required at
that point in the project.
If you are upgrading from
FrontPage 98, the book includes a very helpful troubleshooting
guide outlining upgrade issues. If you are a more experienced
Web site developer, you might want to consider the Microsoft
FrontPage 2000 Bible as
an alternative source of information. --Rob Frankland
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 FrontPage
2000 Bible
With its beyond-the-basics
content, the Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Bible will help Web
creators at any level maximize FrontPage 2000 to its fullest
potential. FrontPage 2000 can be used by novice Web developers
to create their first Web site and by experienced Web developers
to make their jobs easier.
The authors, David Elderbrock and
David Karlins, cover basic use of the program and show users how
to work with graphics, tables, and frames. As you pore through
the book, you'll work on cascading style sheets, forms,
discussion webs, scripting languages, ActiveX controls, Java
programming, database connectivity, and FrontPage server
extensions.
The writers cover difficult
tasks, which shows they've actually used the product to tackle
the problems described. For instance, the section on DHTML pages
explains how to create a DHTML page that works in both Microsoft
Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. Anyone using FrontPage
2000 will find the book very useful, but power users will really
appreciate its breadth and depth. --Rob Franklin
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 FrontPage
2000: The Complete Reference
contains screen shots and interface labels that explain,
completely, the tools Web developers have available to them when
using FrontPage 2000. Such elements are important parts of any
software-documentation effort. But the authors of this book go
beyond mere descriptions, explaining how to use the tools to
achieve the kinds of effects you want on your Web sites. They're
like scientists describing what they see, but also like
engineers setting out to accomplish practical tasks.
Many FrontPage 2000 books
mistakenly assume that the latest version of Microsoft's editor
for Web sites is a lot like its predecessors: big, slow, and not
well-suited to serious Web publishing efforts. That's not the
case and the authors know this, explaining with great clarity
how to use all of FrontPage 2000's features.
The book includes a lot of
procedures, so if you're looking to find out how to enable
Active Server Pages (ASP) or draw a table, you'll have no
trouble finding specific steps to follow. Coverage of ASP,
databases, and other aspects of dynamic site creation is
particularly strong here. Sticking to their
follow-this-procedure method, the authors explain how to collect
data from a Web form and store it in a database, as well as
demonstrating the construction of pages from database contents
on the fly--a useful technique for such applications as catalogs
and directories. This is an excellent resource for FrontPage
2000 users. --David Wall
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