Kevin
Tue Mar 08 07:04:27 CST 2005
> I don't have a great deal of experience in web design even though I wrote
> my first web pages back in 1996 using a DOS text editor. They were
> essentially very simple pages. I hoped that FrontPage might help me to
> produce something a little more sophisticated so I bought a copy of FP2000
> cheaply on Ebay (actually I bought FP2003 to begin with and then found I
> couldn't install it over WIN98 so I gave it to my daughter!). Yes, it did
> enable me to produce some nicer looking pages but even then I found it
> somewhat limiting.
You found FrontPage 2000 "somewhat limiting" compared to a DOS text editor?!
Well, I can die happy now. I've heard it all.
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Kevin Spencer
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What You Seek Is What You Get.
"David Rance" <david.rance@SPAMOFFrance.org.uk> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, spatience wrote:
>
>>Thanks everyone for your comments. I had read so many negative comments
>>about Frontpage, and about all web sites created with it looking the
>>same, which personally I think is ridiculous. I have been using it for
>>about a month now and also reading up on HTML and CSS. I find Frontpage
>>great for laying out the basic site, then I move into the code or split
>>view and edit the HTML by hand. Just wondered if other designers used
>>this or if there was something I hadn't noticed in the package yet that
>>meant it was a no go area for professionals.
>
> As I said in my previous post, I'm a comparative newbie at using
> FrontPage. My impression of it is that it is designed with beginners in
> mind so that even the beginner can produce reasonable-looking sites with
> minimum experience.
>
> I've been using it long enough to have points of dissatisfaction, the main
> one being that it does produce an awful lot of code which isn't always as
> efficient as it might be. Maybe that's the price one has to pay for things
> to be made simple. And even in code view, one cannot see the code for
> additions like shared borders. Another is that you would need another
> program in order to produce your own graphics rather than use what is in
> the FP graphics library.
>
> I don't have a great deal of experience in web design even though I wrote
> my first web pages back in 1996 using a DOS text editor. They were
> essentially very simple pages. I hoped that FrontPage might help me to
> produce something a little more sophisticated so I bought a copy of FP2000
> cheaply on Ebay (actually I bought FP2003 to begin with and then found I
> couldn't install it over WIN98 so I gave it to my daughter!). Yes, it did
> enable me to produce some nicer looking pages but even then I found it
> somewhat limiting.
>
> I do have quite a bit of programming experience, albeit amateur (in
> assembly language and C, with a smattering of C++), and so I began to look
> at Javascript to make my designs more interesting. In fact, what I'm doing
> now I could equally well do without using FrontPage, and instead using a
> browser and a text editor, together with a few text books (I have one for
> Javascript but nothing for HTML). I wondered about getting a copy of
> Dreamweaver, but have come to the conclusion that I shall probably be able
> to manage to do what I want with what I've got.
>
> In short, you don't actually need programs like FrontPage or Dreamweaver
> if you have any programming experience and plenty of time. There are lots
> of sites with ideas for routines in Javascript on the Web. If you haven't
> a lot of time then those programs are a must if you want to produce
> something quickly.
>
> David
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