Rating:  Summary: No other book makes it so easy to find so many answers Review: * Create your own Web pages and sites the easy way--unique tools such as WebBots® make it simple even for beginners. * Start fast with simple pages and quickly move up to building full-fledged sites. * Use Microsoft FrontPage to streamline and automate site management chores--especially if you're a Webmaster. * Spare yourself the usual Web server problems--this is the one book that covers crucial server connection issues. Everything Is Clear: * Step-by-step instructions. * Hundreds of screen illustrations. * Real-world examples. * Tips and advice from a veteran Webmaster. CD-ROM with Must-Have Extras: * A searchable version of the book. * Code for sample Web pages. * Microsoft Internet Explorer. Jim Buyens is the senior PC-LAN administrator for AG Communication Systems, a leading provider of telecommunications switching equipment and software. An early champion of TCP/IP applications and connectivity, he architected a coast-to-coast corporate network with over 25 Windows NT servers and 1,000 client PCs. Over the past two years he has been instrumental indeploying a corporate Intranet that now contains over 14,000 Web pages. He is also the author of Building Net Sites With Windows NT: An Internet Services Handbook (Addison Wesley, July 1996).
Rating:  Summary: A must have resource for anyone using FrontPage 98 Review: Although the author tends to elaborate in non-essential areas he more than makes up for it in the technical aspects. Well indexed and easy to find the areas of interest
Rating:  Summary: A major improvement in MS Press' FP reference books! Review: Having purchased MS Press' FP 97 book to learn FP in a hurry, I was left a little disappointed. I think the book represented the fact that FP 97 itself needed improvement. I upgraded to FP 98 finally, and borrowed the Running MS FP 98 book form my company's MIS manager and after using it for 3 days, I just told him I was going to keep it. In fact, if it solves my current dilemma I may bronze this book. That is why I visited Amazon, I need to buy another copy for him, b/c he won't be able to expense another one. This book goes into much more detail in every topic I've explored so far. I was impressed by the info on the security of FP including detailed discussions about IIS and NT itself. The tips are great! ts
Rating:  Summary: Good for beginners, superb reference, bad at deeper issues.. Review: I am a professional web designer, and have been using FP for a while now. When i switched over to FP i bought this book because it was both for beginers and semi advanced users. As a beginner on FP it helped me with just about everything i needed to know about the software. I will never need another book when it comes to the software itself. It also goes a bit deeper in to things like graphics and colours wich is nice but not why i bought the book. One dissapointing part was the database connectivity. It is very messy and didn't really make any sence. I still haven't figured out how to do it, that part should have been left out totally, because the guy has no clue what he is talking about. But over all if you are working with FP or am thinking about it. This is the book for you, if you are already good at FP and am looking for the deeper issues like database management. Buy something else.
Rating:  Summary: *The* source for FrontPage Documentation Review: I am the proud owner of "Running FrontPage 98", a valuable tome that I have found very easy to understand. I only wish I had something like this when I was self-teaching myself FrontPage 1.1. Jim Buyens is to be praised for the clarity and detail he put into this book. In plain english, he not only describes the uses of FrontPage, but he actually goes and explains aspects about the Internet that can often be confusing. Jim picks up where the normal FrontPage documentation leaves off. If I had a question on how basic or advanced features worked in FrontPage, all I needed to do was check the index and flip to the section. On very rare occasions, will I loan this book out, and even then, it is never far from my cubicle. You want to learn FrontPage? This is the book for you.
Rating:  Summary: *The* source for FrontPage Documentation Review: I am the proud owner of "Running FrontPage 98", a valuable tome that I have found very easy to understand. I only wish I had something like this when I was self-teaching myself FrontPage 1.1. Jim Buyens is to be praised for the clarity and detail he put into this book. In plain english, he not only describes the uses of FrontPage, but he actually goes and explains aspects about the Internet that can often be confusing. Jim picks up where the normal FrontPage documentation leaves off. If I had a question on how basic or advanced features worked in FrontPage, all I needed to do was check the index and flip to the section. On very rare occasions, will I loan this book out, and even then, it is never far from my cubicle. You want to learn FrontPage? This is the book for you.
Rating:  Summary: Gets my vote Review: I liked this book because Jim Buyens is strong where I am weak--the network environment. I work at home, and it is hard for me to understand how the PWS works. Something goes wrong, and I don't know what to do because I am dealing with software more complex than programs and files. This is the best book that I have found to help me understand how a PWS works.
Rating:  Summary: Most comprehensive FrontPage 98 book available Review: Jim Buyens has created one of the most comprehensive and informative guides to FrontPage 98 available. Running Microsoft FrontPage 98 covers nearly every aspect of FrontPage imaginable -- including an overview of the FrontPage environment, organizing content, style, artistic design, hyperlinks, tables, formatting text, images, forms, adding databases, FrontPage Components, and much more. Unlike many web publishing books, Buyens also describes in easy-to-understand terms the technical side of how the World Wide Web works. A cross-referenced index and searchable version of the book on the included CD-ROM makes finding information in the guide easy. A tear-out quick reference card included in the book contains keyboard shortcuts and descriptions of each button. Although Buyens does a great job of describing each FrontPage aspect, screen shots and tables on virtually every page of the book make the content even easier to understand. Even the most experienced FrontPage webmaster will find something new and useful in this guide.
Rating:  Summary: The best book to launch you to success with FrontPage 98 Review: Many books on the market focus on the features of a product and forget about the product as a whole. This book focuses on the product and then shows you what it can do. In addition to the excellent discussion and examples on how to use FrontPage and all it's features, this book also gives you some of the best gems on getting FrontPage to work for you the way you expect it to. This book presents a great general backgrounder whether you are a complete novice, or a FrontPage ace that wants to learn about a feature that you are unfamiliar with.
Rating:  Summary: Great book for study for MS exam Review: My knowledge of FrontPage 98 was small before I picked up this book. I do, however, have a fair bit of computing background. I used this book as my main source to pass the Microsoft MCP exam 70-055. It covered most of the material fairly well. Need to have plenty of hands on exposure as well. The only criticism I have is that the method and extent to which database access was covered needs some work. Good alround book for the beginner to semi advanced user. If you're already well experienced in the use of FrontPage then you'll need something deeper than this book.
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