FrontPage 2000: The Complete Reference [With *]

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.

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.

Although FrontPage comes with a very good tutorial, the tutorial alone will not be enough to teach you much past using shared borders and themes and how to add links. This book is definitely the next step - perfect for someone who wants to build more than just the generic homepage with a few graphics and links. This book touches on effective design, spends considerable time on how to use Microsoft Image Composer to make your own graphics and breezes through using Microsoft PhotoDraw to make buttons and bars. It covers how to design with and use tables and frames and how to tie a database to your web site. And this is just the beginning.From what I can tell so far, it also gives me enough information to help me make intelligent decisions about what I need out of a web server and other higher level functions. It even covers multiple ways to perform the same functions like adding advertising and contrasts the pros and cons. In the example of adding advertising, it shows you how to use the ASP Ad Rotator Component and then how to use the built in FrontPage Banner Ad Manager to do the same thing. It even goes into Java a little and tells you where you can download toolkits to build your own applets. It even tells you how to create your own RealAudio Files and discusses building e-commerce sites.This is possibly one of the best resource books I have ever purchased and highly recommend this to anyone who needs to find answers quickly.

Front Page 2000 The Complete Reference, is not just a reference book. I am starting to build up my domain name Compufly.com So I decided to get the book. The first day I read 287 pages of it (very VERY unlike me) I am computer literate person with the most basic skills of web publishing and this book is really going to do a lot for me. Everything that I could ever question about FP2000 is in here. I highly reccomend this book.

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!