Teach Yourself FrontPage 2000 Visually [Paperback]

Ruth Maran (Author), Ted Sheppard (Illustrator), Sean Johannesen (Illustrator)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764534513 | ISBN-13: 978-0764534515 | Publication Date: April 15, 2000 | Edition: 1

Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle scores of FrontPage 2000 tasks, including building a basic Web page, adding images, inserting hyperlinks, creating special effects, and publishing pages.Full-color screen shots demonstrate each taskSuccinct explanations walk you through step-by-stepTwo-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modulesSidebars offer practical tips and tricksTeach Yourself Visually "I bought several of your books and they are just right! No regrets! I will always buy your books because they are the best." Seward Kollie (Dakar, Senegal) "You deserve the Nobel Prize in Education in the Software category. Thanks for helping me understand computers." Bruno Tonon (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

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From the Back Cover

Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something — and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle scores of FrontPage 2000 tasks, including building a basic Web page, adding images, inserting hyperlinks, creating special effects, and publishing pages.

• Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task
• Succinct explanations walk you through step-by-step
• Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules
• Sidebars offer practical tips and tricks

Teach Yourself Visually™ "I bought several of your books and they are just right! No regrets! I will always buy your books because they are the best." — Seward Kollie (Dakar, Senegal) "You deserve the Nobel Prize in Education in the Software category. Thanks for helping me understand computers." — Bruno Tonon (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

About the Author

Ruth Maran is the Author and Architect of maranGraphics books. She creates the words and structure that are the basis for the books.

Product Details

• Paperback: 303 pages
• Publisher: 3-D Visual Press; 1 edition (April 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764534513
• ISBN-13: 978-0764534515
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,689,729 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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45 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just Show Me, May 11, 2000

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Rick Wingrove - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teach Yourself FrontPage 2000 Visually (Paperback)

I don't always need a long technical explanation when learning a new application - just show me how to do it! And that is what this book does beautifully. Verbage is minimal with the accent on high quality, easy-to-follow color graphics which show exactly how to accomplish basic through fairly advanced web design and publishing procedures. For getting started, it is instantly useful and is much friendlier and prettier than the tired old "Dummies" books. If you are like me and have stacks of unfinished 800-page snooz-o-matic computer learning manuals taking up a large corner of your office, you may want to try this book for a quick, easy intro to Frontpage. This is the best new line of computer books I've found in a long time. Next I need one for PhotoShop.

35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For the Beginner, Making a Web Page, January 3, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Teach Yourself FrontPage 2000 Visually (Paperback)

I am a rank neophyte at making and publishing web sites. I bought three books: 1. Quick Course in Microsoft Front Page 2000, Online Press. 2. The Complete Reference, Front Page 2000, Matthews and Poulsen. 3. Teach yourself Front Page 2000 Visually, by MaranGraphics. The authors of the first two books made unwarranted assumptions about the level of my expertise, used words not in my vocabulary, talked about things I could not find. I was considering giving up, when I started studying "Teach Yourself FrontPage 2000 Visually". Whenever the author used a term not in my vocabulary, she defined it in language I could understand. When she told me to click something, there was a red line leading my eye straight to the thing I was supposed to click. In spite of the precarious state of my expertise, I am now the proud author of a published web site, and beginning to explore some of the fine points described in the first two books. This is THE book for a beginner.

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Serves its' purpose, July 26, 2000

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"xxe1xx" (Daly City, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teach Yourself FrontPage 2000 Visually (Paperback)

I would give this book a 3 star because it didn't teach me all the other advanced topic such as ASP, XML, JAVA Script, Web Database and how to use Applets in your webpage etc. But, the reason I bought this book is to take my first step in learning how to create a web page using FrontPage 2000. I did not expect much of the advanced stuff from it. Since I bought this book as a newbie it does a good job of introducing me to FP2000 and some of the features you can use, I gave it a 5 star.

I recommend this book to anyone who, never used FP2000 or created a website. This book if filled with pictures to help you visualize what you're doing and where exactly you need to be (as you follow the steps). After using this book, I was able to create a simple website with pictures, sound, video and other cool features using DHTML. All that by reading half the book. It was very easy!!! The visual aids are so helpfull that you don't need to read the text most of the time.

This book didn't give an in-depth details on how to tweak the features it describes, just enought so that you can use it, they leave all that to your imagination and to the advanced books. They do demonstrate why you should use some of the features and the sufficient steps on how to use them, (i.e why should you use frames or tables etc.) which is appreciated for beginners.

Tonight, I'll read the other half to learn how to create forms (guest books or a feedback page) and also learn how to upload my page to the web for other people to see.