Customer Reviews

Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Unleashed, w. CD-ROM

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We have purchased a couple of other FP2000 books (most notably the ones from Microsoft Press) and none compare to FP2000 Unleashed. Rather than just discussing each feature in the software (as Microsoft Press' book does), FP2000 Unleashed walks the reader through hard-to-grasp concepts like ASP programming and database connectivity.

Our knowledge in terms of these subjects is limited, but FP2000 Unleashed has helped immensely in showing us how to set up an online database that connects using ODBC technolgy and active server pages (which was all Greek to us before we received the FP2000 Unleashed book).

The important thing to know about this book: It walks the reader through the processes. It doesn't waste time explaning what every little nook and cranny does. It simply lets the reader figure that out by walking the reader through many difficult tasks.

Bravo, Unleashed!

This is the second "Unleashed" Book that I have purchased, and I find them useful, but choppy. The chapters have different authors, and the continuity suffers from this treatment.

Each chapter gives a complete overview of the subject it covers. The key phrase here is "complete overview", as the in-depth detail that many of the new features of FP 2000 has over its predecessors is not there.

This is a good overview of FP 2000 for the intermediate user who has used other versions of FP. I would recommend that beginners or advanced users look elsewhere. If you are looking for detailed descriptions or examples of FP 2000's new features, look elsewhere. If you plan on using database integration, ASP, DHTML or CSS and you buy this book -- budget to buy at least one more book to cover these advanced features.

In sum, I feel this is a good book for a book report about FP 2000 for a high school class; as a "hands-on" guide for real users, this book is not it.

I've been using FP for a while and needed something beyond the basic step by step. This book gives you the goods if your're serious about FrontPage.

I especially like the sections on working with scripts, database stuff, and ASP. It's hard to find good info on these in FP books that talk to newbies.

The most thorough Frontpage 2000 book I've found anywhere and I've bought several others. I use this book practically every day in my day to day work!

Part I of the book is useful in getting you up to speed on Frontpage 2000 quickly. It has 2 chapters designed as quick lessons to FrontPage 2000. Everything after this moves increasingly to intermediate, advanced and expert areas.

Part II of the book covers the essentials of multimedia, tables, frames and image maps. I found the design advice to be sound and helpful. No other Frontpage book I read had these kinds of design tips. Most others focussed on how to point and click.

Part III of the book covers all the core features of Frontpage 2000 from themes to style sheets to GIF animation. Again, I found the focus not only on Frontpage use but on sound design refreshing. Chapter 9 on dynamic HTML and Chapter 13 on GIF animation had tips I found nowhere else.

Part IV has 5 chapters on forms and form handling that takes you through intermediate, advanced and expert areas. Wonderful! No other book I found had such in depth coverage of forms.

Part V covers templates, wizards and webbots. This is pretty basic and beginning. The only chapter I found useful was 24 covering user registration and restricted webs.

Part VI covers integration with Office. You'll find separate chapters on integrating Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Access. Chapters 26 and 28 on Excel and Access were the most useful to me personally. I learned several good tricks and just one of these is worth the price of the book.

And that's only half the book. Still, 25 chapters and 5 parts to talk about some other time. --HJ

I've been building and maintaining websites for myself and volunteer organizations since FP version 1. I have used some simple CGI and Java scripts, but I haven't installed functional ASP or databasing yet, although I have tested them. Anybody going further than a 3-page family vanity site needs a book like this, but no one FP book gives all the answers. This is a very readable, well organized book that either provides sufficient detail to solve problems with all the standard and advanced FP menu options, or gives a sense of how more advanced plugins are supposed to work. This is a very useful book for me. Anyone at my intermediate level needs 3 beyond-newbie FP books, I reckon. This would be a good buy as one of the 3.

My hope was that this was going to be a book that would help me exploit FrontPage in unconventional ways.

It isn't that.

This is a good book for a beginner to intermediate user. It covers most topics, but it does so fairly lightly. It helped me in a few areas that I was weak on, but didn't propel me into being an advanced user.

My Web sites are better for having read this book, but not a lot.

I found this book to be a great guide to walk you through not only the beginning steps of creating great looking WebPages, but also the more advanced features including using CGI scripts and working with advanced graphics. I found this book to be a great reference guide also to help refresh my memory on what steps I had forgotten. I would highly recommend this book to any one at any level.

I am a professional ASP developer that plans to use FP 2000 for some of the initial web site development that I am doing. This book gives good coverage what FP 2000 will do. (I used FP 2000 step-by-step to get a quick intro to FP 2000 last month; it was a quick read, but did not go into much depth.)

Okay so I took a chance and bought the book. I wasn't sure what to expect. The book sat on my shelf for a while then one day when I couldn't solve a problem I looked to the book for a solution--found it! Later in the day, I had another problem, looked to the book for a solution--found it again!

I now use the book regularlly and have found it to have good depth and excellent coverage. I can't imagine working with FP2000 and not having this book.

most comprehensive book on frontpage 2000 I found so far.