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Summary: FrontPage 2002 Even Better Than 2000!
Review: FrontPage 2002 is a great what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) HTML editor, and maintains enough power that interested individuals can still write the actual HTML code. If you have ever used Office, you will be able to learn most of FrontPage 2002's features with relative ease. FrontPage Server Extensions are required to be on the server hosting your page for some of the more advanced features, but many hosts are beginning to add these extensions as their use increases. If all you'll be doing is adding content to a page, you should have no problems using FrontPage on any servers. FrontPage is an extremely powerful software package that costs a lot less than most other equivalent products. As a piece of the Office XP product line, FrontPage 2002 will be as easy and as powerful as other products you are using, and will integrate itself with those other products. If you need to put part, or even a whole, word document on a page FrontPage will do that with ease. You can also include Excel data, and other types of office documents. If you have not yet purchased an HTML editor, get FrontPage and save yourself a lot of hassle and money with other brands. If you have already begun that hassle, end it now with FrontPage 2002.A WORD OF CAUTION:
Users of Microsoft Windows 95 and prior will NOT be able to use FrontPage 2002, or any other Office XP product... Take a look at FrontPage 2000 for this OS.
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Summary: overall a great product, with some drawbacks
Review: This product does allow some great web site building capabilities, however, i did not like the fact that if you did not subscribe to a website hosting company that supported microsoft frontpage server extensions, which only about 10 or so did, then you could not use many of the features when you published the website (i.e. submit forms, e-mail, surveys, etc.) this made many of functions useless. (this would be a drawback to those planning on using free web hosting services such as geocities etc.) but, other than that, this is a very satisfactory product that i would recomend, especially if you are planning on registering for a .com etc.
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Summary: Typical Microsoft
Review: While I must say that FrontPage 2002 does sport a few impressive features, overall it is a waste of money. It's buggy, clunky, and doesn't offer the power that it's competitors products do. The price is also a laugh. This app isn't worth more than 60 or 70 dollars. Save up a little more money and buy a superior web development environment like Dreamweaver or GoLive. Read my review of the Dreamweaver 4.0/Fireworks 4.0 Studio for an idea of the kind of product you could get for some extra money. It's amazing that Microsoft can even compete marketing to beginning designers with this dud. Spend your money elsewhere.
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Summary: Buy DreamWeaver instead
Review: This software has absolutely NO support. The so-called manual that comes with it is limited and extremely difficult to understand. If you are going to buy FrontPage 2002, buy a book with it, you will be glad you did. I do not recommend this software, DreamWeaver is much better. Too many gliches in FrontPage 2002, and many web hosting companies have not installed FrontPage 2002 extensions, because of the bugs in that software. This causes problems with certain web files, either they are incomplete or non-existent.
I am dissapointed in Microsoft for producing FP 2002, I expected a more suitable and proficient product. DreamWeaver costs more, but in the long run, it is well worth it.
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Summary: The FP2002 Book of all Books
Review: This is a very good book. If you need help with Front Page 2002 (FP2002) then this is thee book for you. It is completely an ingenius book. The author(s) did a supperb job on this. This is not for a BRAND NEW web designer, it can get technical. But get it, learn it, and live it.
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Summary: marginally better than Publisher 2002 but still no upgrade
Review: After creating a fairly nice OS called Windows XP, Microsoft
then messed up the relatively decent applications Publisher and
Front Page. I will grant FrontPage2002 is less messed up than
MSPub. The registration scheme is a joke. When you crash your
drive after using BOTH installs for your desktop and laptops
you will see what I mean because you have had your installs and
they feel you should pay again. Still the editor is WYSIWYG and
I use this esp when I am working to produce lots of pages
quickly.
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Summary: Atrocious product
Review: I purchased FrontPage to create our company webpage. I am a novice at web page design, so I thought this product would be a good buy. Not so. (1) The package does not come with a manual! Instead, you get a booklet with a very general overview. If you need more detail you have to go out and purchase another book. I didn't like this. I looked into the book from which the booklet was culled and it read like an astrophysics text: Too much information, wholly irrelevant to my goal. Not user-friendly at all. I discovered some other books that were more readable, but then: (2) I was able to produce only very crude pages with this program. I thought this was my fault, until I got Dreamweaver and cranked out some beautiful pages with relatively little effort.
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Summary: Awesome! Saved me DAYS worth of development.
Review: By far, the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive web authoring tool I've ever used. Great for those who don't have time to goof around with code when trying to run a business.
Those negative reviews about not-perfect code are basically the users who don't get it. Importing from Word? Of course that's cumbersome, you're not writing letters, you're designing web pages! That's like trying to write a book with Notepad. The WYSIWYG interface is flawless and gets the job done, fast, with no hassles.
One more thing, multiple account management is easy if you READ THE DIRECTIONS!
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Summary: Multiple Web Sites
Review: The Upload function works nicely enough, but it is impossible to control which files get uploaded. You need to select each file individually, then send them to your site. There seems to be no way to have seperate accounts set up on Front Page. I have two websites, and must constantly go back and delete files I did not want uploaded. I've tried setting up two Front Page Files, but it is not easily done. I would look for a cheaper program, Front Page is not worth the money.
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Summary: DECENT BUT WAS IT WORTH THE UPGRADE?
Review: I recently upgraded to FrontPage 2002 from the 2000 version however I'm not very impressed with the changes. Few changes here and there but not many I'm impressed with. It does have the new layout that follows the Windows XP layout, which I like - however that's probably the only change. Bottom line - if you're upgrading from a version older than 2000, than it's definitely worth it - otherwise I'd wait.
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