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Teach Yourself FrontPage 2000 Visually

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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.

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.

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.

If you want to learn frontpage 2000, and want to learn fast, visually, and also have a good time, this is the book. There is a reason why eveyone gives this book 5 stars. Frontpage 2000 is fun, plus you don't have to hear all about your <root web> or anything else you really are not interested in. Purchase this fine book and enjoy web publishing.

This is the best book you can buy if you want to become familiar with FrontPage 2000 very quickly. I knew virtually nothing about the program when I purchased this book, and I have learned enough from it to become a proficient user of the program both at home and in my occupation.

The book takes only three or four days to get through, less if you are already familiar with other Microsoft office applications, such as Word and Excel. The screenshots and color-coded instructions on every page make this book very easy to understand and apply, and though it is very basic in spots (it outlines, step by step, how to save a page, for example) it does cover everything the beginning to intermediate user needs to know in order to use the program effectively. The only way this book might be better is if it included a tutorial CD, as many other instructional books of this kind do. Other than that, however, I recommend this book very highly, and I will be returning to the teach yourself visually books in the future, having found this one to deliver on its advertised promise: read less, learn more.

I bought this based on the rating and the reviews. I wish I hadn't. While it is not a bad book, it is so basic that anyone who has ventured into beginning web page development will not benefit from this.

There are large sections on how to use the program's dictionary, or how to cut and paste words, how to use the mouse, how to change the font, etc, etc.

The whole concept is a bit of an oxymoron. It takes a very simple "Dummies"-like approach but instructs primarily via pictures rather than text. However, by the time someone gets to where they actually want to have a web page, are savvy enough to know that their ISP allots them web space, or even knows what an "ISP" is, and knows that Frontpage is a web development tool, they don't need to be taken step by step through how to add a column to a table. Sheesh!

If you just turned on your computer for the very first time yesterday, and you want to learn the basics of web page authoring today before you take on SQL database managment tomorrow, then by all means buy this book. But if you have average computer skills and you have basic word processing familiarity but you just don't find Frontpage intuitive and want to know how to use the program, buy something else.

I am currently developping an intranet application and needed a book to get up & running quickly. I bought it along with FP2000 Unleashed. It tells you almost as much as the first half of the Unleashed book but with much less words. Obviously, it won't cover subjects like accessing to database or Office components .. But then you can go to a more advanced book if necessary. For some people, it gets very basic sometimes like using a mouse or cut & paste stuff that you normally know if you are slightly familiar with computers and word processing (strange that somebody tackling website development might not be computer literate ?) But who cares, it gets straight to the point and you get away with a sound knowledge after all !

I purchased this book based on the reviews I read here. It is definitely an excellent basic book for grasping concepts and for future reference. The visualization makes for a quick read with easier retention. It was a little slow to start with very basic concepts covered but was very good value for the money with topics covered beyond the everyday basics. I followed this book up with Microsoft Frontpage 2000 Unleashed which was the right choice. I recently visited a large bookstore chain to see if there were other books on the market that might fill in any of the gaps of these two books. I went away without anything further and reassured myself that these were the best choices to have been made.

I have been using FrontPage 2000 for a couple of years now and have figured out some of the quirks and wiggles on my own. I sure wish I would have owned this book from the get-go. Now that I do have it, I am able to better perform my FrontPage tasks. The samples and examples are very crisp and clear, presented in color and are perfect for the visual learner. While FrontPage probably isn't the choice for those Super-Duper Web designers who wanna make a zillion (ya, right...wake up in the New Millennium!!), FrontPage 2000 has done all right by me. "Teach Yourself Visually..." is just the ticket for the homebody web page designer in all of us.

If you're a new user to FrontPage2000, I highly recommend this book.

It guides you through the essentials of designing a web page and even takes you a few steps further in a few areas of web design.

Although, you will want other resources as your experience increases, this is a great "first" book to start with.