Special Edition Using Microsoft FrontPage 2000 is an all-in-one guide to designing, creating, and publishing on the World Wide Web and on intranets with the leading tool on the market. The book fully documents the product and its features, but it also gives you a solid foundation in the principles of planning and design. More advanced coverage shows you how to integrate Web sites with databases and add Dynamic HTML, XML, and Java applets to your Web sites.

Because it is not written as a tutorial, novices may be intimidated by its heft, organization, and the assumptions the writers have made concerning skill level. However, if you want the details on Web design, creation and collaboration, and integration with databases, Visual Basic and other Office 2000 applications, you should look no further. The text is clear and easy to read, images are appropriate and plentiful, and the accompanying CD-ROM includes the searchable text, new themes and Web graphics, and demo software and shareware like Storefront 2000 and PerlBuilder.

It's refreshing to get a non-Microsoft perspective for this level of use; while its publication comes too early to report fully on bugs and fixes, its depth and completeness will give you a leg up when the inevitable happens and you need solutions. --Rob Lightner