Customer Reviews

Mastering Microsoft Frontpage 98

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4 star:		(1)
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2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

My colleagues and I discovered many features of FrontPage 98 by using this book. Documentation provided by Microsoft is not as in-depth or detailed. We consider this book a MUST BUY!

We have 3 other FrontPage 98 books--we found this book to not only hit on some topics the others missed such as "publishing", but also tackled some of the complicated subjects with ease!

This book would still be poor value if you removed the 70% that is little to do with FrontPage as such and reduced the price to 30%. Anyone who needs the sort of basic Windows/web information with which this is cluttered should buy something else and get some familiarity with the interface before starting on constructing a website. The HTML info it provides also falls between two stools. If you know anything about it, this book is trivial. If you are new to it, this book fails to give a good grounding.

And, purely personally, I dislike the "Gosh, hey guys" style intensely!

Sybex does it again! I have been reading computer books for the last 10 years and Sybex has been a great publisher - putting out excellent books even back in the "Symantec Q&A 4.0 for DOS" days. Unlike what other people have said about the book on this page, the author DOES repeat a lot things in the book, and for good reason - You're trying to learn a new program!!! Believe me, the computer industry spits out books so fast that content is sometimes downright disgusting. After reading 3/4 of the book so far, I know that the publisher and the 2 authors have pride in their product. Its a wonderful book! Plus it gives you little useful tid bits about the world of web publishing.

After reading the reviewsto decide on buying this book, I am throughly disappointed in this purchase.

The author fails to explain some of the details that make FP98 somewhat irritating.

The title of this book should be : A 'fun' way of leaning FP98.

Buy this book only if you are a beginner.

I skimmed through 4 other books before deciding to buy this book. Every other book seemed like a larger version of the weak documentaion that comes with the software. This book provided the insight on advanced subjects necessary for administering a web. A must buy for FrontPage users.

Mastering FrontPage 98 provides excellent advice on building and running a Web site using FrontPage. The authors describe how to do things clearly and they offer examples and tips that can only come from experience -- I found this book useful and even enjoyable.

I agree with the reader from Canada. There are a lot of repeats to well known issues that should have been ommited. I guess the writers tried to write a "huge" book. Readers won't "master" the FrontPage 98. And they will get bored - at least I did!

I am suprised at the review which rated it a 3. The person indicated a 12 year programing history in Windows 95. I do not question his knolege only his opinion of this book. It is almost 1000 pages with a CD version included with searchable text and a wide range of utilities. I found it easy to read and follow. I would recommend it to anyone. It has a good introduction for those who are just starting to use Front Page 98 and is also "deep" enough for the "techie" type.

A disappointing title that provides far less than "mastery" of Frontpage 98. It is primarily a detailed ramble through the program's features and controls. Illustrative examples are generally poor to none. Editing is poor - whole sentences are frequently repeated without purpose and some paragraphs are incomprehensible. Little effort made to help the reader understand "why" he/she may want to use a feature. I'm a 12-year experienced Windows programmer, just tiptoeing into Web development with Frontpage. This book was quite useless for me. Someone who knows nearly nothing about using Windows programs might get a start on Frontpage with this book, but would have to go elsewhere to "master" it.