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Running Microsoft Frontpage 2000
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Author: Jim Buyens
List Price: $44.99
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ISBN: 157231947X
Publisher: Microsoft Press (15 June, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 29,258
Average Customer Rating: 3.24 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Definitely not for rookies...Great for the experienced user!
I keep reading these negative reviews on this book and I am astounded to hear so many complaints. I have three 800+ page books on FrontPage and this is by far the best. Several times I have needed to look for help on specifc matters and it never fails...the best and most comprehensive information is in this book. Now, let me say that if you are new to FrontPage, do not waste your time with this book. You will hate it. It will truly make your head spin. It is not written to help you understand FP, rather is is written in a way that assumes that you are an experienced user. That said, there are a few things that this book chooses to leave out but for 99% of you out there using FP, this book is a reference to all your ever need. Notice I said reference. After you've worked with FP for a few months or a few years, you are going to want to be able to get at the nuts and bolts of what it can do. You aren't going to want someone explaining what a table is as though you are in first grade. If that sounds like you then this is the book for you. I love this book so much that my other FP books never get used. This is my reference material and it does the job every time.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Save your money and effort
I bought this book because it was on sale at Costco and I had just started using FP 2002 and didn't have any references. The few times I have tried to look up a topic in this either it wasn't in the index (example follows) or the explanation explained nothing. I inadvertently misset my SaveResults option for my feedback page and since I hadn't looked at that page for a long time I couldn't remember exactly how it worked. Although there is a (poor) illustration of a feedback page on page 701, unbelievably "feedback" does not occur in the index. It took around 30 minutes of searching to find this. Although this was the most egregious example I've had there have been numerous others that I didn't think to document. This is one of the worst computer books (of 100s) that I have ever owned.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Fulsom Praise for FrontPage
This book contains pages of useless palaver about the "Web moving from obscurity to the mainstream", "anything involving two or more persons involves politics", "good page layout involves balance: use of the left margin as well as the right...", "real life offers-as does Web page design- a countless variety of potential contrasts", and so on, and so on. No topic deserves less than a long paragraph of zero content. The book also is really annoying in the way it pushes the product, talking about "rich" features, "making things easier than ever","the force of FrontPage themes".When push comes to shove, features simply are cataloged. With little attempt to link features to a complete project, or to answer natural questions that pop up as one goes through a project, the book forces one to flip back and forth trying to answer this or that. Bottom line: much blather, little direction
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