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Frontpage 98: The Complete Reference

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Very good attention to adviced aspects of Frontpage. Not just a reference book, but has step by step examples. Covers every subject even remotely related to Frontpage.

This book is far from a Complete reference. It touches on some topics, but that's all it does! I was very disappointed when the subject I was looking for - Security and Intranets was hardly touched. He gave a great description of what the user roles do, but any idiot can figure this out from their names! All I have to say is if you have never used Front Page before and/or have lived in a cave for the last 10 years this MAY be a DECENT book for you.

Everytime I try to use the book to solve a minor problem, I find a superficial overview. A good example is the chapter on forms; it says nothing about how to implement a secure form a BIG requirement if you're taking credit card numbers on your site. This book was not worth the money I spent, The CD is worth about $10.00. Most of what is on the CD you find on the web for FREE!! I have been using it for about a month now and am doing better by trial and error. NetScape Communicator4.50 is much easier to use and you can write and edit your own HTML. This program I use to build very nice sites and all servers accept it. I would be very cautious about buying another book like this again, O and if you are using a MAC you can forget about any help from it.

This book is misnamed. The publishers and authors ought to be taken to task for false advertising. In the intro they promise "You will learn more about push technology and how to use it to push your own content, in Chaper 16." Well, Chapter 16 has nothing on Push technology (Frontpage allows you to create "Channels" to push content). NOT ONE WORD ON THIS! In fact that whole chapter is worthless. They simply steal some examples from Sun's JAVA SDK, and show how to include it on your web page. I could have figured that out myself. (While we are on the topic, why didn't they include the Java SDK on the CD-ROM). So are most of the other chapters (I looked at 5 or 6 chapters). There is a lot of useless (and sometimes inaccurate) important sounding information, the kind you hear at parties from people who don't know what they are talking about.

Even the description of how to publish your web gives an example of connecting to the local machine's Personal Web server. It does not talk about publishing to a real server. Makes me wonder if the authors actually published anything.

This book will get you up and running on Frontpage. Make a few simple web pages, and that is all. If you want advanced (or even intermediate level) information, forget it...

I found this book to be all I needed to get to work on creating web pages using FrontPage. I especially liked the comprehensive examples that allowed me to work thru the various elements of putting a web page or site together. The more advanced features were described in enough detail to give a good understanding without going so deep that I felt overwhelmed. I hope these two authors collaborate on a book for the next version of FrontPage!

I am a new user of FrontPage 98 and a new web developer for my company and myself. I needed a reference that would explain how to do what I wanted to do, cover tips not in the on-line help, and suggest ways to jazz up my web presentation. This reference covered all points. It provides a CD with many helpful and useful scripts, themes, and FrontPage components to enhance your project. It breaks down the information into easily understood and logical sections. The tutorials are step-by-step and fully explained. It even covers how to develop your own themes and templates. The tutorial on MS Image Composer was invaluable. I can highly recommend this book to the new FrontPage user. I don't think you'll find a better reference anywhere.

I am working on my own website for my private practice and found Microsofts documentation on FrontPage98 to be ....well soft. "The Complete Reference: FrontPage 98" by Matthews and Poulson is what you need in order to really use the resources that MS FrontPage98 makes available to you. The topper is that the CD-ROM included has many of the books own tutorials in disk format for you to use AND about a dozen or so shareware programs that will really add to your pages (WebForms doesn't require CGI support). If you own FrontPage98 and want to learn how to make the most of it - buy this book.

I know I'm a bit late in reviewing this book, which I bought in 1998, however I think this is probably the beginning of Microsoft's huge failure in the internet (browser, services, mobile, etc). Microsoft actually got it right with Internet Explorer, capturing circa 90% share because it was a better browser than netscape and the like. However, instead of keeping up that way, they wanted to rule the internet with monopolistic tricks, boycotting other products and Front Page was not an insignificant element in this strategy as in those days the way you built a website was seen as another (or "the") way to force users to use internet explorer. Again...no push, no services, no embedded java, nothing like that, therefore you couldn't use the very basic internet features of the day. I remember having gone to flash and dreamweaver because of that. So, bottom line, the book is not bad, what was bad was Front Page 98.

I found this book easy to get through. Clear examples and good writing. I was able to start using FrontPage right away after just a few pages. Good buy.

This was an extremely informative book. I don't know alot but was able to create a decent looking web site in a very short amount of time. It's written well and has lots of good examples. Worth the money!