Microsoft® FrontPage® 2000 Bible [Paperback]

David Karlins (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 21, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0764533134 | ISBN-13: 978-0764533136 | Edition: 1

With FrontPage 2000, creating a Web site has never been easier. Designed to function like any other Office 2000 program -- with the same familiar menus, templates, and wizards -- FrontPage 2000 enables you to build a Web site that integrates interactive multimedia elements, pre-built Office 2000 components such as spreadsheets or databases, and the very latest advances in Web technology. Using precise instructions and lots of examples, Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Bible shows you how to harness the power of this award-winning software -- and create state-of-the-art Web pages.

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Amazon.com Review

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

From the Back Cover

If FrontPage can do it, you can do it, too...
With FrontPage 2000, creating a Web site has never been easier. Designed to function like any other Office 2000 program ? with the same familiar menus, templates, and wizards ? FrontPage 2000 enables you to build a Web site that integrates interactive multimedia elements, pre-built Office 2000 components such as spreadsheets or databases, and the very latest advances in Web technology. Using precise instructions and lots of examples, Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Bible shows you how to harness the power of this award-winning software ? and create state-of-the-art Web pages. Inside, you'll find complete coverage of FrontPage 2000

• Master basic principles of Web design and Web publishing
• Create new Webs quickly using templates and wizards
• Learn to work effectively with FrontPage's Themes and color tools
• Add sound, video, and Dynamic HTML animation effects to your pages
• Place contents with pixel-precise precision using absolute and relative positioning
• Achieve consistent formatting throughout your site using Cascading Style Sheets
• Integrate interactive forms and Discussion Webs
• Insert scripts, ActiveX controls, and Java elements into your site
• Connect pages to Access databases or other data sources
• Manage remote, team-based projects more easily with FrontPage 2000's new features

The CD-ROM includes demo versions of the following software:

• WS_FTP Pro from Ipswitch
• LinkBot Pro 4.0 from Tetranet
• Software CSE HTML Validator from Al Internet Solutions
• WebTrends Log Analyzer from WebTrends Software
• FrontPage plug-in components, including Webs Unlimited J-Bots
• FrontPage theme collections including Matrix Productions' ThemePak
• Microsoft's Liquid Motion
• Plus sample files used in the tutorials in the book

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System Requirements: PC running Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT; CD-ROM drive

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Product Details

• Paperback: 773 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (May 21, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764533134
• ISBN-13: 978-0764533136
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #417,146 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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76 of 77 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Microsoft Front Page 2000 Bible, January 19, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Microsoft® FrontPage® 2000 Bible (Paperback)

I am impressed with the books layout and comprehensive content. I found the accompanying CD to be quite helpful. I like that completed examples of exercises in the book (organized by chapter) are included on the CD. The CD also includes nice looking, easy-to-navigate templates.

So far, every question or stumbling block that I have come across has been addressed in this book. The index is quite complete. This book is excellent as a reference guide as well as a training guide.

I am an experienced computer user versed in many software products. I have worked for several years training people to use computers and software. As an experienced user, I have been able to teach myself FrontPage using this book. Wearing another hat, I am always looking for easy to comprehend reference books for students. This book would be helpful and comprehensible to users coming from a beginning background, while still holding the interest of more advanced users.

The "Quick Start" booklet that comes with the book is useful for people who want to quickly get started designing (and fiddling) without searching through the whole book.

I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to design effective web pages without learning extensive programming.

42 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FP 2000 Bible, From Intro to Publish, March 10, 2000

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George E. Puckett (Tucson, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft® FrontPage® 2000 Bible (Paperback)

"The Front Page 2000 Bible" put me on the Internet. I am a reluctant Senior Citizen trying to keep up with technology. Just 3 years ago I was completely computer illiterate. I had been trying to get a website together for several years. I tried another WYSIWYG editor and several other books. Nothing! I purchased FP 2000 and "The FP 2000 Bible" and within several days I clicked the publish button on Front Page. I now have 4 sites on the Internet and more on the way. I have even been approached by a newspaper in Northern California to handle some of their overflow website design work. And I have been working with Front Page for less than 6 months.

No technical book can read or flow like novel. I wish they could. However, within a few days of reading and doing the examples from "The FP 2000 Bible", I uploaded my first site. The real test is what happens when you click on "publish web" in Front Page. I continually return to the book as a reference. When I am ready to try something new for one of my sites, I grab my "Bible." I think the authors did an excellent job in presenting the necessary material.

The Front Page Forum hosted by David Karlins is invaluable. Whenever I need help I go there. That's another plus. It's like continuing education, included for the initial price of the book. No one can anticipate all of the questions and impart all of the knowledge necessary to learn Front Page. To do so would take many volumes. But David fills in the gaps with his speedy and complete answers.

The Quick Guide, "The Front Page 2000 Bible" and the accompanying CD, with examples, make for a complete learning package.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy it. You won't regret it., August 4, 2000

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[e-mail] (Tulsa, OK USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft® FrontPage® 2000 Bible (Paperback)

If you're brand new to web page authoring like myself, the "Bible" is an excellent guide. I bought it on the strength of a review here at Amazon.... Everything "ep" wrote on that review is true. The Quick Start Book is exactly what it is - a quick start, and it's good. It helped me quickly understand the basics of FrontPage 2000.

Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Bible by Edelbrock and Karlin is an excellent supplement to an excellent software. It's not perfect, like "ep" pointed out, but I'm building a departmental intranet using only this book and the program's user help index.