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Summary: SysAdmins: Don't bother
Review: This book is really geared toward FrontPage authors who don't understand why their content is broken. (here's a hint: you're using FrontPage...)As someone who works at an ISP and -doesn't- use FrontPage, all I wanted to know was how to properly set up, maintain, and troubleshoot Server Extensions for Windows and for UNIX. This book disappointed horribly on that count. It barely mentions them at all, other than basically "make sure they're installed", no mention whatsoever about Server Extensions for Apache. The book is very sparse on detail. The flowcharts look nice and might well be useful to a non-technical person. I, and the co-workers I've loaned it out to, have been disappointed every time we've tried to mine any helpful information out of it. I bought it "used" dirt cheap, but I'd have to say that it wasn't worth the cost of shipping. I would have given it only one star, except for the fact that it could turn out to be useful to non-technical people trying to use FrontPage to publish web content. The amount of useful, technical documentation on FrontPage Server Extensions seems to be sadly lacking and this book is no remedy.
Rating:
Summary: SysAdmins: Don't bother
Review: This book is really geared toward FrontPage authors who don't understand why their content is broken. (here's a hint: you're using FrontPage...) As someone who works at an ISP and -doesn't- use FrontPage, all I wanted to know was how to properly set up, maintain, and troubleshoot Server Extensions for Windows and for UNIX. This book disappointed horribly on that count. It barely mentions them at all, other than basically "make sure they're installed", no mention whatsoever about Server Extensions for Apache. The book is very sparse on detail. The flowcharts look nice and might well be useful to a non-technical person. I, and the co-workers I've loaned it out to, have been disappointed every time we've tried to mine any helpful information out of it. I bought it "used" dirt cheap, but I'd have to say that it wasn't worth the cost of shipping. I would have given it only one star, except for the fact that it could turn out to be useful to non-technical people trying to use FrontPage to publish web content. The amount of useful, technical documentation on FrontPage Server Extensions seems to be sadly lacking and this book is no remedy.
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