Customer Reviews
No book 
2004-05-04
Dealing with Amazon Digital Books is like dealing with a brick wall!
Poorly produced volume 2002-03-04
This book appears to be fairly comprehensive and easy to understand. Unfortunately, the publisher seems to have cut corners on the binding. I have tried two different copies and with each copy pages started falling out after very little use. If you are looking for a reference book, be aware that this Osborne publication is likely to fall apart before you have finished your first web site.
Best Available 
2001-08-19
I couldn't give this book a 5 because I found some things missing, and describing almost everything from a personal web server standpoint isn't helpful to people with disk based Webs. I do, however, consider it to be the best one that I've read, and I've been through quite a few.
The information that they provided on Meta tags and site submission I could not find in any other FrontPage book, only in books dealing entirely with HTML. I think this info alone makes it worth buying, especially for a novice. For the more advanced people, the Java and related info was very good.
This book, along with Running FrontPage 2000, and the Getting Started manual that comes with FrontPage should be about all you need.
Tough book to rate 2001-07-27
If you are truly just buying it to learn to use FP, I suppose the book deserves more than a 1. If you got conned into thinking that you might learn even one iota of ASP or Database Connectivity from these two HORRIBLE chapters, you would give it less than a one. As for the FP stuff, it does cover almost all the features, but seldom gets into the nitty gritty, so after you learn FP from a surface point of view, this book is practically useless. This is hardly a good reference book.
In-depth, very helpful 2001-07-19
Showed me things about Frontpage I never knew, and got me cranking out web pages they way I finally wanted them to look. I won't give it 5 stars because the book got wordy at times and rambled on a bit on some topics, but overall you'll learn a great deal.
Best reference for MSFP I have come across 
2001-07-10
FrontPage 2000 Web Builder's Bible. Whetehr you're a Web design beginner or a seasoned pro, Frontpage 2000: The Complete Reference, by Martin Matthews and Erik Poulsen, gives you a total toolchest for maximizing Microsoft's award-winning Website creation and management tool. You get up-to-date techniques and little-known secrets for using all of its advanced features, including the fast-action know-how to: Use Wizard and Components to handle Website mechanics; Create sizzling graphics special effects, and animated GIF's with Image Composer; Encourage Website traffic with interactive applets, forms, and scripts; Protect your site and visitors with fail-safe, maximum security features; Understand and maximize HTML, DHTML and XML; Design database-driven Web sites with ADO and OLE-DB; Implement Active Server Page technology; Import and integrate Office and other files; And much more.
Complete is an understatement 2001-02-06
Complete is an understatement for this book. Not only will it teach you how to use MIcrosoft Frontpage2000, it will give a quick introduction to HTML and XML. Only two real complaints with this book. Chapter 1 seems a hodepodge of things about the program and web pages in general; even as an introduction it is a mess. The index seems almost too concise and all too often I find myself leafing through chapters trying to find the answer I need.
Lacking in some key areas 
2000-09-04
I'm a beginning user of Front Page 2000, and was having some problems filling in the gaps of Microsoft's official publications, so I bought this book. While somewhat comprehensive, there are some key areas that are lacking.
1. There is no section, and virtually no mention of cross-browser compatibility. This was a significant problem I was having, as my pages looked fine to me, but AOL & Netscape users were seeing crazy fonts, strange tables, etc. This book assumes that everyone uses Internet Explorer.
2. It just skims the surface of the intricacies of using tables, which are used extensively in web pages.
3. I found the format somewhat annoying, in that anytime you looked up a feature, instead of just explaining how it works in detail, it makes you build a web page using that feature in order to see it. This is very time consuming when you're just looking for simple answers.
4. The "Free CD of software" is pretty much worthless. All it contains is free and shareware easily found on the web, and in more currrent versions.
5. Some simple things are just simply missing. I wanted to know how to make thumbnails of my photos using Front Page's auto-thumbnail feature. I could find no mention of this anywhere in the index or TOC. It may be in this thick volume somewhere, but I could never find it.
It does contain a ton of information, just not as "Complete" a reference as I would have hoped.
Complete & Then Some 2000-07-14
This book is packed with inside information. A great resource for the novice as well as the professional. Well worth the money.
Personal Web Server Woes 
2000-06-06
OK, so the book doesn't really deserve a 3. I just wanted to vent. Is it just me, or did anyone else find the (non)treatment of how Personal Web Server works maddening. The authors state that they assume throughout the book that the reader will have PWS running. Fair enough...but how about a little more detail on how to make that happen! At least a mention somewhere, anywhere, that the Front Page Server Extensions need to be installed on PWS (that setup doesn't handle that little detail) would have been helpful! I spent 2 hours on the Microsoft web trying to figure that one out. And maybe just a few words on how PWS behaves, what web folders really are, all that basic stuff. Anyway, I hope the remaining 800 pages are a litlle more "newbie" friendly.
