No technical book can read or flow like novel. I wish they could. However, within a few days of reading and doing the examples from "The FP 2000 Bible", I uploaded my first site. The real test is what happens when you click on "publish web" in Front Page. I continually return to the book as a reference. When I am ready to try something new for one of my sites, I grab my "Bible." I think the authors did an excellent job in presenting the necessary material.

The Front Page Forum hosted by David Karlins is invaluable. Whenever I need help I go there. That's another plus. It's like continuing education, included for the initial price of the book. No one can anticipate all of the questions and impart all of the knowledge necessary to learn Front Page. To do so would take many volumes. But David fills in the gaps with his speedy and complete answers.

The Quick Guide, "The Front Page 2000 Bible" and the accompanying CD, with examples, make for a complete learning package.

"Microsoft Front Page 2000 Bible"
I am impressed with the books layout and comprehensive content. I found the accompanying CD to be quite helpful. I like that completed examples of exercises in the book (organized by chapter) are included on the CD. The CD also includes nice looking, easy-to-navigate templates.

So far, every question or stumbling block that I have come across has been addressed in this book. The index is quite complete. This book is excellent as a reference guide as well as a training guide.

I am an experienced computer user versed in many software products. I have worked for several years training people to use computers and software. As an experienced user, I have been able to teach myself FrontPage using this book. Wearing another hat, I am always looking for easy to comprehend reference books for students. This book would be helpful and comprehensible to users coming from a beginning background, while still holding the interest of more advanced users.

The "Quick Start" booklet that comes with the book is useful for people who want to quickly get started designing (and fiddling) without searching through the whole book.

I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to design effective web pages without learning extensive programming.

"FrontPage 2000"
This is an excellent book.FrontPage 2000 is a very dynamic and complicated program.When one masters it, web design becomes second nature.Frontpage 2000 Bible is a through and easy to understand guide.It makes life on the web much easier.

"Good support from the authors"
I've read some the reviews here and on other books - "FP2000 Complete Reference" and "Using FP2000 SE" AND "Frontpage 2000 Developer's Guide"

I have "FP98 Unleashed" and "Using FP2000 SE"

I tend to buy from shops, not online as I like to thumb the pages before I buy. I bought FP2000 first, because I spotted a short section on Design Time Controls and Wizards.

I bought the book even though I am familiar with the IDG series - "BackOffice Small Business Server", "Access". Generally, the authoring briefs of these books is not my preference. Authors seem to be forced into very quick coverage of everything but insufficient pause to inform in detail. However, they suit a particular niche where you already know enough and just want to be informed of what you may have missed.

On the other hand, the "Unleashed" series is detailed but often so boring and printed in small boring type, they're the other side of undesirable.

So I bought this book knowing what it is and I am not disappointed.

I work occassionally with Visual Interdev, ASP and ADO/Database connectivity. My slant is, well, people who want more info on database connectivity should look for a different book on such stuff - an Intro/Intermediate book on FP is NOT the place to go into ASP.

The FP product itself is purposely niched - it is for users who have not made any website and want a leg up. Therefore inadequacies in Database Connectivity are purposely left so. It's like MS Publisher vs MS Word. If you want to do serious ASP, go for Visual Interdev / ASP / ADO products.

Bottom Line:

I would like all authors and publishers on FP to think "outside the box". Create three FP books at a third of the price of a full FP book. This gives us more experienced users the choice of not wasting money on 2/3 of the book unused. The books should be: a. FP Intro (covers brief info on HTML etc...) b. FP Intermediate (covers more details on using the Wizards and Webbots and DHTML tricks) c. FP Advanced/Admin (covers details on developing components for FP, automating FP with VBA, detailed info on admin of IIS/PWS)

"Horrible Reference"
The language is not comprehensible and the book is very poorly organized