Customer Reviews

Special Edition Using Microsoft FrontPage 2000

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I'm passionate about FrontPage 2000 so I have checked out every FP 2000 book I can find. I bought this book (my fourth FP 2000 book) after reading the last couple of chapters in the bookstore.

I find this book a very good reference to FrontPage 2000. Coverage is complete (or near-complete) and it offers great chapters on IIS and web planning. The writing is generally good, but the large volume (1200 pages) and heavy weight are due in part to "wordiness" of some chapters. The enclosed CD-ROM has a good collection of software, but alas, the best is not free, just demos.

Database connectivity is covered, but not as well as "FrontPage 2000: The Complete Reference", which remains my favorite FP 2000 book, but the chapters on Office 2000 and FrontPage 2000 are welcome.

While you can't go wrong with this book, getting "the complete reference" may give you just as much information on FP 2000 while helping save trees.

I personally have never encountered a QUE book that didn't help me more than others. I taught myself dBASEII & IV, including programming, years ago by using QUE books. I find them comprehensive and good at answering my questions. The current FrontPage offering fits right in with my expectations. You have no idea of the versatility and power of FrontPage until delving into Special Edition Using Microsoft FrontPage 2000. The only reason I didn't rate it 5 stars is because of the clunky, cheesy, shovelware CD in the back of the book. There are only two other FrontPage books I'd recommend: FrontPage 2000, The Complete Reference and FrontPage 2000 Answers! Both of which are available at Amazon.com

I have found QUE books to be excellent in the past (dBASE IV was a gem), but this one falls a bit short. I continually find myself reading three or four pages of garbage before I get to the content I am looking for. When I get there, the example is too basic and then the next section starts.

I didn't find the section on Scripting too informative and now I have to look into another book. I am not an advanced user of FP2000 so my low rating is not because of my need for an expert manual.

The basic material was covered fairly well other than the blah, blah, blah. This book should be about half its size based on the same content.

Why don't they give us a no fluff book (&CD) with a full example of an advanced site, explain it in the book and let the user figure out the rest. That's what I liked about the old dBASE IV book with its inventory system example.

I purchase this book to aid in the building of a database site. I was disappointed that the CD did not contain the sample files discussed in the book and the author did not respond to my email. In addition his website is empty

If your goal is to be able to delete and modify records in a database then the six pages at the end of the chapter "Advanced Database Techniques" will most likely not be enough for you. This section of the chapter (p.870) begins by saying "Frontpage does not provide a large amount of flexibility for more advanced data maintenance, such as deleting information, or editing information."

Huge book and it took me 15 weeks at 3 chapters a week to go through BUT, it was worth it. Nothing was left undiscovered. I built a bunch of webs for clients along the way and the studying was worth it. I especially appreciated the second half of the book with its indepth chapters on all of the not so simple web page topics such as databases, Office 2000 integration and Intranets. Frontpage is revealed as a real corporate workhorse. I'm doing QUE Access 2000 now. Ugh, wish me luck.

I went to the local Barnes & Noble and checked out all the books on FP 2000. This one goes into greater depth, has 3-4 times the number of pages (1200+) and is cheaper than most the others. If it hadn't wasted my time with a worthless CD, I would have given it 5 stars. The CD had 35 themes (30 of which had no installer), some cheesy demoware and a useless PDF version of the book.

This book is good for Front Page 2000. If you are familiar with FrontPage 2000 then and then only read this book. Some of the topics are discussed at great lenght and some of the topics are just covered in a few paragraphs. I suggest you to first try Front Page 2000 and then try to find solutions from this book. It works well then reading this book completely. Treat this book as referance only. If the book had beed with many examples, surtainly it whould have helped lot of people. This book also discuss things related Servers , Java , Active X , Java Scripts and Database. I have found this book helpful to find even lesser known features of FrontPage. Again I suggest this book only if you are familiar with Front Page 2000. hasitdave@yahoo.com

First, this book is pretty good in its coverage of the FrontPage product. However, I am not as happy with it as I was with other books in the Special Edition Using series, put out by Que. There are a number of typos in the text, and at times, the explanations do not seem clear. I had to read several parts over, as what I was reading was not all that clearly stated. I think that this book is good for those who want to learn FrontPage 2000, but I would browse other titles first.

I have already designed websites with FrontPage, without using any book. I decided to buy this one to learn a thing or too. I have done just that. I am still at page 110 and it's not fair to rate the whole book yet, but I must say it's hard to keep my eyes open(how boring it is).

there is almost an introduction to every sub-section. clearing out all the redundancies, the book should be 600 pages. the 21 pages of table of contents killed a lot more trees than required. however, all tht length and boredom help u 2 pass by those typos and outdated image insertions. there were also some wrong "cut and paste" works, (in full sentance). on page 55, while talking about 'insert', there is a weird sentance about 'undo' which is from the 'undo' section. then the 'undo' sentance shows up again in the next paragraph. both the author and proof reader should be fired. i say there is an error of some sort in every 2.5 pages. i m currently at page 171. some FP components are not working as i read through the book, but it doesnt cover why, lots of useless bs. recommend me a good book and i'll give this one to u free. sneedu@usa.net