About This Tutorial

Royal Road

A legend has it that an ancient king, tired of the step-by-step, proof-by-proof progression of his mathematics lessons, complained to his teacher and asked, in effect, whether they couldn't jump ahead to the good stuff. The reply was: "Your majesty, there is no Royal Road to geometry."

With Frontier, happily, that's not true. Frontier provides you with plenty of power to get started quickly; you can go back and learn the details later. Let's start enjoying Web site management with Frontier.

Note: Frontier 5 is a free application and database, which progresses constantly in response to user needs and ideas. Revisions become available for download fairly frequently. This tutorial is geared to Frontier 5.0, the first cross-platform version for Windows and Macintosh. Since this is a hands-on tutorial, if you have not started with a clean download of Frontier 5, your experience may differ from what is described here.

Another Note: This tutorial has benefitted from suggestions, questions, corrections, and encouragement by readers of earlier versions, as well as from the generous sharing of inventiveness and expertise (through the mailing lists) that characterizes the Frontier community. Since I can't thank each individually, thanks, one and all. You know who you are.