I'm passionate about FrontPage 2000 so I have checked out every FP 2000 book I can find. I bought this book (my fourth FP 2000 book) after reading the last couple of chapters in the bookstore.

I find this book a very good reference to FrontPage 2000. Coverage is complete (or near-complete) and it offers great chapters on IIS and web planning. The writing is generally good, but the large volume (1200 pages) and heavy weight are due in part to "wordiness" of some chapters. The enclosed CD-ROM has a good collection of software, but alas, the best is not free, just demos.

Database connectivity is covered, but not as well as "FrontPage 2000: The Complete Reference", which remains my favorite FP 2000 book, but the chapters on Office 2000 and FrontPage 2000 are welcome.

While you can't go wrong with this book, getting "the complete reference" may give you just as much information on FP 2000 while helping save trees.

This book is good for Front Page 2000. If you are familiar with FrontPage 2000 then and then only read this book. Some of the topics are discussed at great lenght and some of the topics are just covered in a few paragraphs. I suggest you to first try Front Page 2000 and then try to find solutions from this book. It works well then reading this book completely. Treat this book as referance only. If the book had beed with many examples, surtainly it whould have helped lot of people. This book also discuss things related Servers , Java , Active X , Java Scripts and Database. I have found this book helpful to find even lesser known features of FrontPage. Again I suggest this book only if you are familiar with Front Page 2000. hasitdave@yahoo.com

I personally have never encountered a QUE book that didn't help me more than others. I taught myself dBASEII & IV, including programming, years ago by using QUE books. I find them comprehensive and good at answering my questions. The current FrontPage offering fits right in with my expectations. You have no idea of the versatility and power of FrontPage until delving into Special Edition Using Microsoft FrontPage 2000. The only reason I didn't rate it 5 stars is because of the clunky, cheesy, shovelware CD in the back of the book. There are only two other FrontPage books I'd recommend: FrontPage 2000, The Complete Reference and FrontPage 2000 Answers! Both of which are available at Amazon.com

I've read some excellent books from QUE and I must say that this book was a true dissappointment. It is quite evident that several authors contributed to this work which resulted in a lack of consistency between different sections and chapters. There were several instances in the book in which an editor would write comments intended to be seen only by the author for clarification that was accidentally published instead and should not have been. For a few examples see p. 736, 747 where the reader can read comments left by a person named Kyle, which I presume to be an editor written to the author. Not enough attention to detail was given in the sections pertaining to VBscript and JScript. The author of that section writes in such an esoteric way that the reader almost has to already know Visual Basic or Java to be able to understand the programming samples. Overall, the organization of the book was good. However, that alone cannot overcome the mistakes, lack of consistency throughout the book, and poor explanations of the programming samples.

Although I'm a big fan of Que's books on computing and programming, this Special Edition Using Microsoft Front Page was the most disappointing book I've ever purchased from them. It's priced in the upper range but doesn't even compete on par with the other books for novices. Over the 400 pages in the book, I'd estimate that 100 are just trivial discussions about what HTML and Internet basics are. The worst aspect of the book is its examples. Say, for example, you want to insert a survey form in your web site. If you follow ANY of the examples in this book, you only get one-third of the process -- leaving the reader in the dark how to implement the other 2/3's of the process and make the programming successful. Save your money on this one.

I wrote Chapter 11 on HTML. When I saw the whole book, I was thrilled that I had been asked to be part of it

I agree with reader #1. Time and time again, I referred to the book only to find that it contained inaccurate information that simply did not work.

I asked the publisher if there was and updated version, for which there was not.

The book is impressive - nearly 900 pages, but most of them are just too basic. I am an experienced Frontpage 97 user, and I learn faster just playing with the program. The authors go in extend with beginning stuffs such as adding images, changes text etc.. while on advanced topics such as adding activeX controls and scripts, there is simply not enough information. The layout of topics is confusing too. For example: discussion web (forum) is appeared in 2 places: 1. Chapter 23, pages 537 (deal with creating, posting and deleting articles), and 2. chapter 11, page 249 (discussion form handler). In my opinion, if the author group them together, it will be easier to follow.

The CD have many sharewares, but most of them are not that useful.

I would rate this one worse that the "Laura" series.

I bought Using Frontpage 98 and Mastering Frontpage 98 and neither really said much. Using Frontpage 98 is a book written for beginners in NON-beginner language. Mastering Frontpage 98 is slightly better, but they are still both difficult to follow and where is information on Active Server Pages, JavaScript, VB Script, and any of the advanced features?! They aren't in either of these. However, if you are patient and want to know all the basics of Frontpage, then the books might be for you.