Official Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Book, 1st edition
Authors: K. Brett Polonsky, Kerry A. Lehto
Venue:  (1999)

From the Book:Welcome to FrontPage The Internet, the World Wide Web, intranets, extranets-all of these things have become as common as the telephone, for businesses as well as for the home enthusiast. The vast array of technologies that have taken hold alongside them have become a part of our everyday lives and will continue to change the way we live and work. Intranets, which use Internet technologies within a business or across an enterprise, once the latest trend, have spawned a new one. The newest type of "net" has businesses sharing information by linking intranets together to form the new "buzz," extranets. One can only guess what will come next. Similar to other booms the computing world has witnessed, thousands of companies have formed to search for a piece of the Internet pie. Scores of good Internet-related products are available, but most of us don't have the time or the expertise required to sort through them, learn their pros and cons, and put them to use, whether at work or at home. Microsoft FrontPage 2000 makes it easy for you to establish a presence on the World Wide Web or create a Web site for your organization's intranet. Designed to fit seamlessly into the Microsoft Office suite of applications, FrontPage is the first easy-to-use Internet product that allows you to develop an entire Web site and connect it to many kinds of servers. If you want to set up a Web site but you're not a programming whiz, don't worry-FrontPage can do the programming for you. But FrontPage is also robust enough for amateur and professional developers who do want to toy with the HTML code. Talk About Easy! The Official MicrosoftFrontPage 2000 Book is your in-depth, one-stop shop for learning the ins and outs of FrontPage. You'll learn how to develop and maintain a Web site, develop high-quality Web pages, and how to get those new sites up on the World Wide Web. You'll also learn how to incorporate material from Microsoft Office files into your site, and link to, from, and within those files. You'll learn about some exciting new additions in FrontPage 2000, such as exact 2D pixel positioning, which lets you place content in a specific position on a page. Also, an improved CSS (cascading style sheet) interface, and CSS templates, make using a style sheet as easy as it gets. And with the new FrontPage Report View, you can keep tabs on the various aspects of your Web sites. For example, you can easily see how many files are in your site, or how many hyperlinks you have, and even if any of them are broken. Because some of you like to lift the hood and tinker with the controls, this book also includes information about more advanced topics, such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) security, using the Database Results Wizard to display information from a database, editing the source code of your Web pages with improved HTML support, and the FrontPage Server Extensions. A Look at the Book Part 1, "The Beginning Stages," introduces you to FrontPage; talks about the birth of the Internet, the World Wide Web, and intranets; and explains how FrontPage fits into all three scenes. You'll learn some great tips on producing sites for the Web and for your organization's intranet, and you'll learn about the exciting new ways in which FrontPage works in conjunction with Microsoft Office. Part 2, "Creating and Managing Your Site," tells you everything you need to know about creating and administering Web sites. With FrontPage, you can view your site in different ways-including the exciting Navigation view, which lets you create a site map and translate it to navigation on your pages. In Part 2 you'll also learn how to use the FrontPage templates and wizards. FrontPage has designed dozens of new Web, page and frames templates-just pick one and you're on your way. Part 3, "Building Your Pages," looks into the FrontPage Page view, which you'll use to create and edit your Web pages. Here, you'll find indepth instructions for creating terrific-looking Web pages that can include video, audio, marquees, colored text, tables, frames, character formatting, font styles, and much more. You'll find Page view as easy to use as a word processor. Part 3 also contains some hearty content on Web site graphics, how FrontPage uses them, and ways to make them appear faster in a browser. A detailed look at the FrontPage components and forms is also presented in this part. Part 4, "The Finishing Touches," introduces you to the many advanced features of FrontPage, such as cascading stylesheets, dynamic HTML, the Database Results Wizard, ActiveX, Visual Basic, and JavaScript, as well as some accessibility tips. The final chapter talks about using servers with FrontPage. Here, you'll learn about the FrontPage Server Extensions, which extend a server's capability to take advantage of features available in FrontPage. These extensions are available for a wide variety of servers that use platforms such as Microsoft Windows 95 and 98, Microsoft Windows NT, and various flavors of UNIX. Tips and Notes The book also includes Tips and Notes that provide more details about the subject at hand. They show you ways to save time, such as clicking a toolbar button or using a keyboard shortcut instead of using a menu command. just as there's more than one way to get from Cairo to Cooperstown, Tips offer alternative ways to carry out tasks, and they give you additional information on a topic. Notes give you a little something extra to think about or caution you against performing actions that can lead to trouble. Who Should Read This Book? The Official Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Book is designed for both beginning and advanced FrontPage users. just as FrontPage is designed for nonprogrammers, so is this book. It's ideal for those who want to learn how to use FrontPage to create a World Wide Web site or an intranet site. This book picks up where the product's online help leaves off; within these pages, you'll find in-depth descriptions and scenarios about possible uses of FrontPage that draw on my experience in Web site creation, design, and management. I hope this book will help you fill in the holes and answer your questions as you make your FrontPage sites "sights to see."