Laura Lemay's Web Workshop: Microsoft FrontPage 98 [With Book's Complete Text in HTML, Materials for Book E]

by Laura Lemay and Denise Tyler

The Laura Lemay's Web Workshop series is designed to instruct the reader on a particular aspect of Web publishing in an interactive manner. This text, part of the series, is organized into small,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575213729
• ISBN13: 9781575213729
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 807 Pages
• Weight: 3.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Good basic reference

This is a good references for how-to instructions on basic FP 98 functions. The quality of step-by-step instructions varies throughout, but this book is a good step up from the sparse documentation the comes with the software. Not a book for advanced users or developers, but this is a good first book for beginners.

A good start for website and Frontpage beginners

Some readers have knocked this book because it doesn't give ALL the answers. But if you install FP98 and follow only Microsoft's directions and documentation, you'll end up with an ugly, not to mention badly dysfunctional, piece of work. Miss LeMay's work isn't perfect, but I have to compare it to the competition, most of which is far worse. I'm not totally satisfied with this one, but I find I consult it regularly as a guide to fill-in on FP98's awful, disorganized Help utility. This is is a good start-up for newbies (including myself). On that basis, by the time you work your way through this fairly easy-to-manage material, you'll have a good start with FP98 and similar authoring tools. Most of the recommended info links to Internet sources are out of date now, but they're still a decent start at finding more material on the 'Net, which changes daily.I do agree with many of the negative comments found in other reviews, but for beginners this book was helpful in finding more information about the product. If you're a power developer you'll already know the limitations of guides like this and you wouldn't buy it in the first place. The book isn't perfect, but after looking at the competition I have to stick with my 4-star rating. If you want to learn HTML, Java, Perl, C++ and ActiveX controls, etc., find other sources designed for that purpose. A major omission is detailed technical info about FP98's internal workings. If you're worried about that, be aware that no guide covers the problems that Micrososft built into the product. In my case, I didn't realize that FP98's CDROM had much useful info until I found references to it in LeMay's book. The examples and help on the book's CD were a good starting-point, and the author had the good sense to realize that readers who want to get more sophisticated info about this user-unfriendly product can find it in more updated form on the Web.

A complete reference tutorial for Front Page 98.

If you don't find this book useful you probably can't read. It covers every aspect of Front Page 98 and more. The references contained in the appendix are outstanding. I especially recommend this book to the novice just starting out.

Very Impressive Book for Beginners

I am a beginning web page designer so FrontPage 98 in itself is a great advantage for me. This book was a tremendous help and a great reference book to have in addition to Microsoft's generally poor documentation that comes with their software. The only reason for this book not getting a "10" from me is the fact the book could have been laid out a little differently and a little more streamlined. The first part of the book does not deal with hands-on web page design and instruction but premarily on the general features of the program. The second part does an admirable job of hands on web design with good explinations of software features integrated with the tutorials. In my opinion a very good book!

Good, basic book for old & new users of FrontPage

This is a good, basic book and a good place to start with FrontPage. It's easy to follow and the directions are clear. Her CD-ROM contains excellent examples. Anyone who can read could do an adequate (or better) web site in a short amount of time with this book. Her section on navigation view (a new feature) is great. This edition is an improvement over the FP97 book. It is more complete and is one of the few book to give tips about Image Composer. Most FP98 books are geared to technical information only. I wish she would expand on Image Composer's possibilities.