Teach Yourself FrontPage 2000 Visually

by Ruth Maran and Marangraphics

Suitable for beginners, as well as intermediate users, this full-colour tutorial for FrontPage 2000 provides readers with concise, jargon-free instructions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764534513
• ISBN13: 9780764534515
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: 3-D Visual Press
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Great First Book

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.

For the Beginner, Making a Web Page

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.

This is the book to use

If you want to learn frontpage 2000, and want to learn fast, visually, and also have a good time, this is the book. There is a reason why eveyone gives this book 5 stars. Frontpage 2000 is fun, plus you don't have to hear all about your or anything else you really are not interested in. Purchase this fine book and enjoy web publishing.

Serves its' purpose

I would give this book a 3 star because it didn't teach me all the other advanced topic such as ASP, XML, JAVA Script, Web Database and how to use Applets in your webpage etc. But, the reason I bought this book is to take my first step in learning how to create a web page using FrontPage 2000. I did not expect much of the advanced stuff from it. Since I bought this book as a newbie it does a good job of introducing me to FP2000 and some of the features you can use, I gave it a 5 star. I recommend this book to anyone who, never used FP2000 or created a website. This book if filled with pictures to help you visualize what you're doing and where exactly you need to be (as you follow the steps). After using this book, I was able to create a simple website with pictures, sound, video and other cool features using DHTML. All that by reading half the book. It was very easy!!! The visual aids are so helpfull that you don't need to read the text most of the time.This book didn't give an in-depth details on how to tweak the features it describes, just enought so that you can use it, they leave all that to your imagination and to the advanced books. They do demonstrate why you should use some of the features and the sufficient steps on how to use them, (i.e why should you use frames or tables etc.) which is appreciated for beginners.Tonight, I'll read the other half to learn how to create forms (guest books or a feedback page) and also learn how to upload my page to the web for other people to see.

Just Show Me

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.