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Summary: For the Beginner, Making a Web Page
Review: 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.
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Summary: Great book to start with
Review: 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 !
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Summary: Very, Very, Very Basic
Review: 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.
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Summary: Just Show Me
Review: 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.
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Summary: Very easy but not deep enough
Review: I found this book very easy to use. However I find that it leaves many important aspects of creating a website untouched. I went through this book in about six hours.
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Summary: Great for Beginners
Review: I had dabbled a bit in web design for a couple hours before reading the book. It was VERY BASIC and I would recommend it highly for people who are recently becoming interested in web design, but it was too basic for me. I was hoping for the book to have more intermediate information, and it did not. Now I am shopping for another book because this one was not complete enough for my taste. I would not have purchased this book if I knew it was so basic.
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Summary: Great for Beginners
Review: I had dabbled a bit in web design for a couple hours before reading the book. It was VERY BASIC and I would recommend it highly for people who are recently becoming interested in web design, but it was too basic for me. I was hoping for the book to have more intermediate information, and it did not. Now I am shopping for another book because this one was not complete enough for my taste. I would not have purchased this book if I knew it was so basic.
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Summary: Great for Neophyte and Web-Wizard Wannabe Alike
Review: 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.
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Summary: Great for Neophyte and Web-Wizard Wannabe Alike
Review: 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.
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Summary: Great First Book
Review: 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.
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