Comments about oreilly FrontPage 2003: The Missing Manual:

I designed two web sites using FrontPage, but this book gives so much extra useful information that I started to redesign them. Great book!

Comments about oreilly FrontPage 2003: The Missing Manual:

View>Reveal Tags must be turned off to be able to allow Frontpage to add a layout from the templates in the task pane. This information obtained from Microsoft Frontpage 2003 Discussion Groups.

The book is a very good learning tool for the novice like me.

Comments about oreilly FrontPage 2003: The Missing Manual:

wow ... five hours and not able to get past the first step in the first example ... added a new page ... she writes "The Layout Tables and Cells task pane may have automatically opened (it didn't)" ... "If it didn't, open it now by selecting View>Task Pane." ... Great! The task pane is displayed. Ok, 1 minute in and making progress ... five hours later, still unable to "under the Table Layout section, click the third choice, "Corner, Header, Left and Body"... The choices are visible, but grayed out! No amount of digging can turn them on... gone to Frontpage help, MS online, etc ... I hate wasting time ....

Comments about oreilly FrontPage 2003: The Missing Manual:

Missing manual is right! In just 400 pages, Jessica does what Microsoft's "Help," and bookstore volumes of twice the number of pages have failed to do. Specifically, the Msoft Help, as many frustrated users have discovered, is really not much help at all, and the big "bibles" at the bookstore are tough to navigate.

Jessica, however, not only explains underlying concepts and why some techniques should be preferred over others, but also tells the reader, and SHOWS the reader, exactly what to do. The book is logically organized so that chapters build on one another, allowing the reader to progress from basic to advanced -within conceptual frameworks, step-by-step. Got something you wanna know how to do? It's here.

But wait, there's more: Mantaro writes with a sense of humor, nicely anticipating how a reader's brain will compare technical material to everyday life (parent-child relationships, for example). The frequent (but not too frequent) chuckles make everything more digestible. Beginner or pro, you'll find much of value in this "missing manual," and in no case have I mumbled to myself, "...but what does THAT mean?"

What's missing? Some Msoft gotcha's and bugs and the work-arounds for them as well as some "tips 'n tricks." But she had to stop SOMEwhere. I hope a website based on her book emerges, where users (and hopefully she) will add suplementary material which will become the basis of the NEXT edition.

Don't MAKE me come over there...BUY THIS BOOK! Really.