Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Step by Step

Microsoft(r) FrontPage(r) 2000 is a quick, effective way to create and manage professional Internet or intranet sites without programming. New features offer industrial-strength Web tools to novices and experienced Web builders, such as advanced HTML, data-receiving templates, and more powerful editing tools.

MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE 2000 STEP BY STEP instructs the beginning to advanced user on getting the most out of the popular FrontPage Web site creation and management tool. The personal training system offers easy-to-follow lessons that include clear objectives and real-world examples. Users can learn exactly what they need to know, at their own pace. Each volume consists of approximately eight hours of instruction with dozens of screen shots and illustrations. A companion CD is included with practice files tightly integrated with the lessons. Other features include a "QuickLook Guide" for easy visual navigation and "Finding the Best Starting Point for You" to help users get the most out of the book. A special binding stays flat when the book is open.

If you haven't created a Web site before, you'll probably want to use a Web authoring tool like Microsoft FrontPage 2000. Yet even with a novice-friendly tool like FrontPage 2000, you'll need some help. Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Step by Step will tutor you through many of FrontPage 2000's components and options, allowing you to build your site without actually having to learn HTML.

Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Step by Step walks you through the site design process. You quickly learn how to create new Web sites and make them viewable on the Web with or without FrontPage Server extensions. Besides the basics of Web page creation, the book also covers the application of FrontPage themes to a site, using cascading style sheets, incorporating FrontPage components such as a marquee, a hit counter, page banner, and table of contents. The forms and frames tools are covered in exceptional detail.

The book's strength lies in the high level of interactivity the text plays with the accompanying CD-ROM. Each lesson in the book (each chapter comprises a lesson) has one or more related instructional files on the CD-ROM. To bring a story line to the tutorial, the book places you in the position of a Web developer designing for a number of clients. The files on the CD-ROM allow you to jump into a project and work with the featured tools without having to create all of the pages required at that point in the project.

If you are upgrading from FrontPage 98, the book includes a very helpful troubleshooting guide outlining upgrade issues. If you are a more experienced Web site developer, you might want to consider the Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Bible as an alternative source of information. --Rob Frankland