Customer Reviews

Special Edition Using Microsoft FrontPage 2002

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I am new to using FrontPage although I have installed other web based software products. The book was easy to follow and gave me the technical details I needed to sink my teeth in and create a a web presence with FrontPage 2002. The book is 914 pages and covered designing web pages, web creation and managment, scripting, and dynamic content, using Linux as a webserver, and databases connectivity. As you can see it goes from the simple creation of web pages to setting up a beefy website. I feel the book is a great reference. As a side note the book does not come with CD.

This is a detailed and comprehensive resource for FrontPage 2002, well presented and authoritative. Should be just about all you need to help develop effective Web sites, with or without the use of a Web server. Also covers related material well, some examples being: the creation and adapting of graphics for the Web, collaboration techniques for team-based Web development, and the essentials of using FrontPage with Apache Web servers.

You need to go no farther than page 23 to spot the fatal flaw in this book, "Microsoft did not include the Personal Web Server (PWS) with FrontPage 2002 ... " PWS versions 4 and 5, the book says, are available on Win98, NT4 Option Pack and Win2000. Trouble is none of those work with Windows XP! There is nothing I could find in the book that XP Home Edition seems to take no notice of FrontPage. And, worst of all -- the need for WinXP Professional established -- the book doesn't even mention IIS5.1 which is in WinXP Professional and necessary for full use of FP2002.

This failure isn't corrected -- as of late February -- on the quehelp.com pages offered to update such information. Not to mention the loss of a CD, none offered on the book with 3rd party samples and a searchable copy of the volume. Very poor job. And I'm a Que Using series user! Okay, I used to be. (Note there is no CD with the Using Office XP either!)

That said, the credibility and usefulness of the rest of this poorly written book is suspect. I won't quote some of the paragraphs that are simply not understandable. You won't have any trouble finding your own samples. I wish I had my money back.