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Identifying features new to the 2003 release along the way, this thick guide introduces the major components of the FrontPage web page editor, offers advice on planning a web site, and walks through the process of adding content to web pages, formatting that content, and publishing the finished product to the web. The CD-ROM contains additional chapters, sample web components, scripts, ASP.NET-based tools, and macros.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Book Description
Hey, you know your way around the Web—so now dig into FrontPage 2003 and really put your Web design skills to work! This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of time-saving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and handy workarounds in concise, fast answer format. Quickly advance your expertise by drilling deep into core and advanced FrontPage techniques; improve your ability to build and manage Web sites; create animations and add sound, video, Flash files, and plug-ins; add text search, registration forms, and other data-driven features; set up and run a Web server; work with HTML, XML, and scripting; and more, On the companion CD you get an eBook of Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out. You also get the full Web site example used in the book, 16 appendixes, a collection of Microsoft resources for learning about Office, a catalog of 3rd-party FrontPage resources, and two additional e-books: the Microsoft Computer Dictionary, Fifth Edition, and the Insider’s Guide to Microsoft Office OneNote 2003. And you also get the author’s Insider Extras—14 ways to extend your web design skills using programming techniques, from scripting time-sensitive content to developing custom web components. With INSIDE OUT, you’ll discover the best and fastest ways to perform everyday tasks—and challenge yourself to new levels of FrontPage mastery!


About the Author
Jim Buyens is the author of Microsoft FrontPage Version 2002 Inside Out. He is the senior PC-LAN administrator for AG Communication Systems, a leading provider of telecommunications switching equipment and software. An early champion of TCP/IP applications and connectivity, Jim architected a coast-to-coast corporate network with over 25 Microsoft Windows NT®–based servers and 1000 client PCs.He maintains a Web site featuring support for his books and help in finding Windows NT resources.

FROM OUR EDITORS

The Barnes & Noble Review
With the possible exception of Outlook, FrontPage 2003 has changed more than any other Microsoft Office System application. FrontPage has traditionally been designed primarily for Web beginners and businesspeople: folks who might know Word but are not Web professionals. These folks are still a crucial market for Microsoft. But FrontPage 2003 adds many industrial-strength features needed by professional Web designers and developers, too. There￯﾿ﾽs a lot of new stuff to learn, including a significantly tweaked interface. Backed by Microsoft, Jim Buyens has written the definitive guide to FrontPage 2003 for users with some FrontPage or Web design/development experience.

Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out isn￯﾿ﾽt a beginner￯﾿ﾽs guide. While Buyens offers a ￯﾿ﾽwhirlwind tour￯﾿ﾽ of the basics, he doesn￯﾿ﾽt waste a lot of time on stuff you already know. (Total newbies might check out Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Step by Step.) That leaves the bulk of this big book for FrontPage 2003￯﾿ﾽs enhancements and advanced features.

Many of these new features will simplify development for both pros and amateurs. For example, Buyens introduces new task panes for building layouts and manipulating table cells, and the handy Autostretch option for preventing unwanted distortion of table rows and columns.

Buyens also offers detailed coverage of dynamic Web templates, which allow you to define editable and non-editable regions of a page. Change non-editable areas, and the changes are applied sitewide, wherever you￯﾿ﾽve used the template. (Sounds like Macromedia Dreamweaver? You￯﾿ﾽre in luck: the feature is intended to be ￯﾿ﾽsyntax-compatible￯﾿ﾽ with Macromedia Dreamweaver. You should be able to use existing Dreamweaver sites -- maybe even permit Dreamweaver and FrontPage users collaborate on the same projects.

Buyens also focuses on using FrontPage to build sites that use Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 running on Windows Server 2003.

SharePoint 2.0 is immensely powerful -- but it has all kinds of implications. For instance, whereas classic FrontPage extensions use ASP or ASP.NET for database access, SharePoint 2.0 uses XML data sources formatted via XSLT. Your pages, images, and documents aren￯﾿ﾽt stored as ordinary files, but as database records. SharePoint 2.0 also depends heavily on Web Parts: content fragments that site designers, administrators, and authorized visitors can add, delete, or manipulate.

Buyens thoroughly covers the issues associated with SharePoint sitebuilding. You￯﾿ﾽll first walk through creating simple SharePoint Team Sites; then use the aforementioned Web Parts to build diverse SharePoint applications; and finally, access and integrate data sources inside and outside your SharePoint application.

As with all the books we￯﾿ﾽve seen in the Microsoft Inside Out series, you also get an electronic version on CD-ROM, plus loads of bonuses -- notably the excellent Microsoft Computer Dictionary, Fifth Edition. There are also goodies straight from Microsoft￯﾿ﾽs FrontPage product team: stuff you won￯﾿ﾽt find in anyone else￯﾿ﾽs FrontPage book. Bill Camarda

Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Hey, you know your way around the Web--so now dig into FrontPage 2003 and really put your Web design skills to work! This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of time-saving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and handy workarounds in concise, fast answer format. Quickly advance your expertise by drilling deep into core and advanced FrontPage techniques; improve your ability to build and manage Web sites; create animations and add sound, video, Flash files, and plug-ins; add text search, registration forms, and other data-driven features; set up and run a Web server; work with HTML, XML, and scripting; and more, On the companion CD you get an eBook of Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out. You also get the full Web site example used in the book, 16 appendixes, a collection of Microsoft resources for learning about Office, a catalog of 3rd-party FrontPage resources, and two additional e-books: the Microsoft Computer Dictionary, Fifth Edition, and the Insider's Guide to Microsoft Office OneNote 2003. And you also get the author's Insider Extras--14 ways to extend your web design skills using programming techniques, from scripting time-sensitive content to developing custom web components. With Inside Out, you'll discover the best and fastest ways to perform everyday tasks--and challenge yourself to new levels of FrontPage mastery!

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