Microsoft "FrontPage 2002 Inside Out" Book Review

by      John Calhoun

 

This is a big book!  1118 pages, jam-packed full of help and information on building your own website.   Aimed at advanced users, this book includes info on cascading style sheets, hyperlinks, animation, and incorporating forms and databases into a website.  The book includes instructions for creating Web pages, managing a Personal Web Server, keeping a site up-to-date, and publishing a Website.  It also has tons of timesaving tips and tricks, troubleshooting techniques, and indexes for everything contained in the book.

 

FrontPage 2002 is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) website creation package, and this Inside Out book gives you a sample website to guide you.  The book comes with a CD containing the e-Book version of the book, as well as add-ins,  utilities, and the sample website.  It also has bonus content not included in the book, as well as helpful Web links, sample macros and code, tutorials, and utilities.

 

I found the book to be very informative and helpful.  It contains a wealth of information, but is primarily aimed at the more experienced computer user.   However, I must say that I am very disappointed with Microsoft for not including this book with the FrontPage software.  Most software that I have ever purchased comes WITH the manual: it doesn’t have to be bought separately!  And, at $45, it’s not cheap!  The manual that does come with the software is puny, and basically just gets you started.

 

 

"Microsoft FrontPage Inside Out" Book

Jim Buyens

Microsoft Press

1118 Pages, not including indexes

CD-ROM e-Book + extras

$44.99

 

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