FrontPage 2003 (The Missing Manual)

In today's highly connected world, almost everybody has a web site, from local sewing circles to the world's largest corporations. If you're ready for one of your own, Microsoft's FrontPage 2003 has everything you need to create Web pages. It's true. Your geek friends may howl in contempt if you use FrontPage, but that's because the program has a reputation for spitting out cookie-cutter Web pages with messy, overloaded HTML code that takes forever to load. Not any more.

After listening to complaints, Microsoft has given FrontPage 2003 some pretty advanced features, including an HTML cleanup tool that helps alleviate bloated code, and new support for Macromedia Flash and XML. Now, savvy Web veterans can control as much of the process as they want, and even collaborate on a site with developers who use Dreamweaver, GoLive or other Web authoring tools. Yet, unlike those other tools, FrontPage 2003 still has automated features for beginners who don't know where to start.

There's still one flaw, though. Microsoft's idea of a user manual is a flimsy pamphlet. But that's easily solved. FrontPage 2003: The Missing Manual offers you everything from the basics to meaty sections on advanced tasks. Our book puts the program's features in context, with clear and thorough chapters that provide valuable shortcuts, workarounds, and just plain common sense, no matter where you weigh in on the technical scale. With it, you can learn to build simple Web pages, or sophisticated ones with tables and Cascading Style Sheets, and find out how to manage and publish a Web site. You'll also learn to create forms, work with databases, and integrate FrontPage with Microsoft Office.

If you haven't worked with Web pages before, each chapter provides "Up to Speed" sidebars with useful background information. If you do have experience, the "Power Users' Clinic" sidebars offer advanced tips and insights. You won't find tips like those in the pamphlet, or even in the Help file. FrontPage: The Missing Manual gives you the complete lowdown on the program above and beyond any book on the market.

Customer Reviews:

getting started
I bought this book and FrontPage 2003 Quick Steps. Quick Steps has better pictures and is a better book for the absolute beginner. However the Missing Manual has more depth once you are ready to add bells and whistles to your site. I'd buy them both.
--2006-11-16

A Great Book
To bad it took an outsider to write a how to manual for Microsoft's FrontPage 2003. This is a real How To manual. I learned more from this manual than Microsoft's own book "FrontPage 2003 Step by Step", which I also own but was a waste of money. Not only does it tell you how to, it also has step by step practice sections. Not only does it tell you why, but how. This is not only a great book for beginners, but the advanced as well. Thanks to Jessica Mantaro we now have a manual that Microsoft should have included.
--2006-11-09

Just what the doctor ordered
No kidding. Entirely self-taught, this great grandpa has been wrestling with FP for years, with three websites so far to show for it. My sons and grandson have tutored from afar, but it's been a struggle. Suddenly, I have not only FP 2003, but I also have, for the first time, a simple, straight-forward logical set of instructions to go with it. Life is good. If " .. the Missing Manual" has made Front Page undertandable, even easy, for me, it must be special. I don't know Jessica Mantaro, but I can tell you for sure, she knows FP 2003 and she knows how to teach what she knows.
--2006-11-05

Wonderful Book - One of the better computer Manuals I've seen
Just plain good. Well written, well put togeather, and makes it all easy to understand. My only complaint is it should come with a box of stick-its :) I've marked so many pages already.
It delivers on what it promises, and is great if you got Frontpage 2003 (like I did) then wonder just what you are supposed to do next.
--2006-09-10

Wish I bought this first...
I bought the "Absolute Beginers Guide..." first. It wasn't 'absolute' enough for me. The layout of this book was much more logical and comprehensive.
--2006-08-07

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