Special Edition Using Microsoft FrontPage 2000 (Paperback)

by Neil Randall (Author), Dennis Jones (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review
If you're using FrontPage to design Web sites for intranets or the Internet, consider Que's Special Edition: Using Microsoft FrontPage 2000 as your standard reference. Comprehensive, easy to use, and clearly written, it sets the standard for books aimed at intermediate and advanced users.

Because it is not written as a tutorial, novices may be intimidated by its heft, organization, and the assumptions the writers have made concerning skill level. However, if you want the details on Web design, creation and collaboration, and integration with databases, Visual Basic and other Office 2000 applications, you should look no further. The text is clear and easy to read, images are appropriate and plentiful, and the accompanying CD-ROM includes the searchable text, new themes and Web graphics, and demo software and shareware like Storefront 2000 and PerlBuilder.

It's refreshing to get a non-Microsoft perspective for this level of use; while its publication comes too early to report fully on bugs and fixes, its depth and completeness will give you a leg up when the inevitable happens and you need solutions. --Rob Lightner

Product Description
Special Edition Using Microsoft FrontPage 2000 is an all-in-one guide to designing, creating, and publishing on the World Wide Web and on intranets with the leading tool on the market. The book fully documents the product and its features, but it also gives you a solid foundation in the principles of planning and design. More advanced coverage shows you how to integrate Web sites with databases and add Dynamic HTML, XML, and Java applets to your Web sites.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1248 pages
• Publisher: Que (May 27, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078971910X
• ISBN-13: 978-0789719102
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 2.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,431,388 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive but too large!, September 9, 1999

By A Customer

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.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You can rely on QUE books, December 23, 1999

By	Raymond Alstrom "rayray" (Victoria, TX) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too wordy - not enough examples, January 10, 2000

By	Brett Dailey (California) - See all my reviews

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.