Introduction

Faster Smarter Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 is designed to be a concise, readable guide for FrontPage. This concise guide is the one you ll use if you want to learn FrontPage 2003 quickly and you already know the basics. The book covers everything you need to master FrontPage essentials from forms to themes to wizards to Web site administration. Because the focus is on learning FrontPage faster and smarter, you don t have to wade through hundreds of pages of background information to find what you re looking for. Instead, you find exactly what you need to use FrontPage effectively and to get the job done.

This Book Is For You

While Faster Smarter Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 discusses FrontPage Server Extensions and SharePoint Team Services, the focus of this book is on Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003. You ll find what you need to learn FrontPage quickly and efficiently . The book is designed for:

• Existing FrontPage users who want to learn the new features

• Web designers who manage medium- to large-scale Web sites

• Webmasters who use or support FrontPage-based Web sites

• Programmers who are writing code for dynamic, data-driven Web sites

• Hobbyists who want to create FrontPage-based pages and sites

To truly allow you to learn FrontPage 2003 faster and smarter, we had to assume that you already know Internet basics and have basic Web skills. With this in mind, the book doesn t discuss the history of the Internet, the evolution of Web design, or markup language fundamentals. The book doesn t discuss scripting, Java, XML, or other Web technologies either, except with regard to how those technologies are used with FrontPage 2003 to create dynamic, interactive Web sites. We do, however, cover themes, style sheets, tables, layers , frames , forms, database-driven sites, collaboration, and much more.

We also assume that you know a bit about HTML and XML. If you want to learn HTML/XML basics, there are many terrific resources, including Laura Lemay s Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and XHTML , and William Stanek s XML Pocket Consultant .