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Running Microsoft FrontPage

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Jim Buyens has created one of the most comprehensive and informative guides to FrontPage 98 available. Running Microsoft FrontPage 98 covers nearly every aspect of FrontPage imaginable -- including an overview of the FrontPage environment, organizing content, style, artistic design, hyperlinks, tables, formatting text, images, forms, adding databases, FrontPage Components, and much more. Unlike many web publishing books, Buyens also describes in easy-to-understand terms the technical side of how the World Wide Web works. A cross-referenced index and searchable version of the book on the included CD-ROM makes finding information in the guide easy. A tear-out quick reference card included in the book contains keyboard shortcuts and descriptions of each button.

Although Buyens does a great job of describing each FrontPage aspect, screen shots and tables on virtually every page of the book make the content even easier to understand. Even the most experienced FrontPage webmaster will find something new and useful in this guide.

I am a professional web designer, and have been using FP for a while now. When i switched over to FP i bought this book because it was both for beginers and semi advanced users. As a beginner on FP it helped me with just about everything i needed to know about the software. I will never need another book when it comes to the software itself. It also goes a bit deeper in to things like graphics and colours wich is nice but not why i bought the book. One dissapointing part was the database connectivity. It is very messy and didn't really make any sence. I still haven't figured out how to do it, that part should have been left out totally, because the guy has no clue what he is talking about. But over all if you are working with FP or am thinking about it. This is the book for you, if you are already good at FP and am looking for the deeper issues like database management. Buy something else.

Having purchased MS Press' FP 97 book to learn FP in a hurry, I was left a little disappointed. I think the book represented the fact that FP 97 itself needed improvement.

I upgraded to FP 98 finally, and borrowed the Running MS FP 98 book form my company's MIS manager and after using it for 3 days, I just told him I was going to keep it. In fact, if it solves my current dilemma I may bronze this book.

That is why I visited Amazon, I need to buy another copy for him, b/c he won't be able to expense another one.

This book goes into much more detail in every topic I've explored so far. I was impressed by the info on the security of FP including detailed discussions about IIS and NT itself.

The tips are great!

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Although the author tends to elaborate in non-essential areas he more than makes up for it in the technical aspects. Well indexed and easy to find the areas of interest

This book gives you details that the Microsoft manual doesnt give you. It is thorough in every aspect of creating,editing and publishing a website with Frontpage98.

Very poor explanation of Accessing Databases with FrontPage. The examples were vague and didn't work. Jim Buyens may know his subject but he sure doesn't know how to present it in understandable terms. He and Laurie Lemay should be banned from publishing technical documentation.

My knowledge of FrontPage 98 was small before I picked up this book. I do, however, have a fair bit of computing background. I used this book as my main source to pass the Microsoft MCP exam 70-055. It covered most of the material fairly well. Need to have plenty of hands on exposure as well. The only criticism I have is that the method and extent to which database access was covered needs some work. Good alround book for the beginner to semi advanced user. If you're already well experienced in the use of FrontPage then you'll need something deeper than this book.

I am the proud owner of "Running FrontPage 98", a valuable tome that I have found very easy to understand. I only wish I had something like this when I was self-teaching myself FrontPage 1.1. Jim Buyens is to be praised for the clarity and detail he put into this book. In plain english, he not only describes the uses of FrontPage, but he actually goes and explains aspects about the Internet that can often be confusing. Jim picks up where the normal FrontPage documentation leaves off. If I had a question on how basic or advanced features worked in FrontPage, all I needed to do was check the index and flip to the section. On very rare occasions, will I loan this book out, and even then, it is never far from my cubicle. You want to learn FrontPage? This is the book for you.

I liked this book because Jim Buyens is strong where I am weak--the network environment. I work at home, and it is hard for me to understand how the PWS works. Something goes wrong, and I don't know what to do because I am dealing with software more complex than programs and files. This is the best book that I have found to help me understand how a PWS works.

The book was a good book. Let's get that straight. It provided in-depth info on almost everything imaginable. Herein was a bit of a problem, however, because he did a little too much describing. For example, Chapter 4 is all about colors. Instead of just sticking to explaining how FrontPage handles colors, he goes off explaining Hexadecimal, CMY, RGB, and the scientific view of light and color. He also gets into screen brightness in that chapter.

Overall I say it's a good buy, but you might get a little bored reading some parts.