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Summary: Now anyone can have their own webpage!
Review: I published my first homepage back in 1995. It required learning basic HTML, and was relatively unattractive. Every file had to be manually uploaded, which took an unbelievable amount of time. Basically, it meant that I created my page, and just left it there for two years, because I had forgotten how to FTP files to it. Enter Frontpage 2000! I've now created a webpage that I add to about once a week. With FP2000, all you have to do is hit the "Publish" button, and all the icky technical stuff is done in the background for you. I've got about 100 photos and 7mb of space in use, and FP2000 lets me handle it all easily. The wizards are particularly helpful, allowing me to create the framework for my site in less than 15 minutes. Creating a new page is as simple as going to the navigation menu, clicking on the square representing the page you want to add to, and dragging a new page from it. All the hyperlinks are automatically updated, and the link to the new page is added to the menu on the original page. I also used the book "How to use Frontpage 2000: Visually in Full Color" by Paul Heltzel, and found it extremely helpful. Armed with this guide and the FP2000 program, I'm sure you could turn your kids loose on the computer for an hour or two, and come back to a new functioning web site. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Very easy to use and affordable!
Review: This program is incredibly easy to use and is so affordable, you may do a double take at the price. For those who say HTML what? This is the best solution I have found so far. Yes, you can view the HTML and you may even get to copy and paste some into the program, however, most likely the only thing you will need to deal with is the Meta Tags, which can be done after you have created your pages. If you look in the HTML view you will see the top portion of each page is basically the same. This information will help the search engines find you once you are listed. I am working on that next! The beauty of this program is once you create your Web site, you can launch it with ease. You will be flying on the Web in no time. You can start with just one page and build more as you need them, or you can build an entire site, test it out and then launch. You do need to be online and have a domain name set up with your provider even before you start building. Those are the first two steps. While working in this program, there are various ways you can view your site. There are three areas which will be open and also three options for viewing each page. On the far left you have a vertical column of icons: Page: This view shows the page you are physically working on. Folder: Helps you view and organize all of your files and folders. Reports: Shows the status of your files. Navigation: Shows a pictorial representation of your site. Hyperlinks: Shows page links between pages. Tasks: This is a list of jobs you create for yourself. Then you will see three tabs at the base of your Web page: Normal: This is the view in which you will create your Web pages. HTML: This shows things like, <p align="center"> and other such HTML. Preview: This shows you what the page will sort of look like. Don't rely on this, it is better to go to the main preview option in the browser. There are a few basic things you should know before diving into this program. The main choice is going to be whether you are going to design the pages yourself as I did, or you are going to go with a template. If I had to do it over again, and had found a template I liked, that would be the way to go. This program has them if you want to use them. I chose to start with a blank page and build it as I went along. 1. First create a new Web by clicking File, New, Web. 2. Create a page simply by clicking File, New, Page. 3. NEVER use capital letters or spaces in your page names. They should look like this: windows_page_1 That is it! 4. When you have created one page, copy and paste it to the new page, erase the information you don't need and then type in the information you want on the new page. 5. Learn how to hyperlink: Type a word, highlight it and then go to Insert, Hyperlink, then choose a page on the list (you must have at least two pages or you will have to link externally). This will link the word to a page. To link a word outside of the page, type in the Web site name. 6. You can preview the whole Web site in the browser. 7. When working in "Normal" view, you can also choose to reveal the "tags." This will help you to see hidden items in your pages. You can then remove extra spaces, etc. 8. When your site is ready to launch, make sure you view the site in "Report" view. You can use the spell check to search a page or the entire Web site. 9. Adding graphics is about as easy as copying them and pasting them. 10. Before opening this program, get online. You can then test the links as you make them. To do this in normal view you must hold down Ctrl and then click on the hyperlink using the mouse. In preview, all you need is the mouse. 11. To make a background I also opened up a page on my site and pasted a square of color from a picture I took. Then I simply right clicked on my mouse, clicked on background and selected that picture from the list. The background magically became blue and I guess it just happened. You could choose any picture or pattern for the background you want. Just keep it consistent and make sure people can read the type. I chose to place "tables" on each page. You simply add a table just like in a Word document and you can make the borders color or invisible. This is handy for organizing things on pages when you don't want a border. Once you have your tables in place you can select different background colors, borders, etc. Play around with this feature until you get what you are looking for. This can all be done by highlighting the table and then right clicking on your mouse to choose either "table properties" or "cell properties." You can create various effects. Are you ready yet? Jump in, don't worry but do take with you a sense of determination and a very open mind. Take seriously every suggestion other Webmasters give you. I think if I could get on the Web, create a site and do it all in five months, then you can too. Trust me on this!
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Summary: I'm a beginner
Review: I'm a what you see is what you get type of person. Front Page helped me create my website. I use the program daily and enjoy it emensly (sp). A great program :-)
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Summary: Great product!
Review: I use FrontPage to create all my webpages. Not only has it helped me learn HTML but it has given me confidence to branch out to other areas like graphic design. If you're looking for a program to help you make a professional webpage, this is the one! It's great for beginners and more advanced webmasters!
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Summary: Good to learn with but mirror image of 97'
Review: This is and always has been the best and easiest program to create websites. Its really easy to learn and publish websites. It cuts HTML completely out of the picture. But, when compared to the 97' version its a mirror image. Hardley any changes were made. If I were to do it all over again. I would buy the cheapest version. For the simple fact... Its cheaper.
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Summary: A dismal excuse for an upgrade
Review: I uninstalled this thing right away. I am going back to FP 98. FP 2000 wants to take over every aspect of your web site. Uploading is a nightmare. They took out the good parts of 98 and added some bells and whistles and called it an upgrade. I hope I can get my money back. If not, it's going on ebay. I will start looking into other editors, not MS though until they get a clue.
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Summary: Okay for beginners...
Review: I started using Front Page 2000 about a month ago. For a guy who doesn't know HTML and had never set up a website before, it seemed like a dream. The interface is brutally simple if you've used any other MS Office program and I had a site built less than 24 hours later. But when I wanted to add some animation I created in Flash 4.0, I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to do it. I ended up creating the webpage in Dreamweaver and then importing it into Front Page. This didn't work and I spent hours reading through different Front Page "bibles" looking for an answer. Not one of the seven books I looked at even mentioned Flash, let alone how to incorporate it into Front Page. If there's a way to do this, I couldn't find it. So I switched over to Dreamweaver and I'm loving life. It is a little harder to get up and running, but once you figure all the features out, it's just as easy to use as Front Page. And it's got exponentially more features than FP 2000. So I'd recommend Front Page only to users who know that they won't be creating complex websites. Ever. But if you're looking to learn about creating sites and need a program to grow with you, I'd recommend spending the cash on Dreamweaver. P.S. Dreamweaver let me import my entire FP 2000-built site into its interface in less than a minute. Five minutes later, my Flash graphics were finally visible to the WWW!
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Summary: Watch the space used by "_vit_cnf" directories
Review: Front Page creates a separate file for every file you have on your Web site and stores them in directories called _vti_cnf. These are not needed by a browser, yet FP uploads them all to the server. My provider allows 10 Meg free for a Web site, but FP generated 14 Meg of these useless files. Tech Help says don't delete them, FP needs them (for password is the only reason given). The extra charge for this space makes FP a very expensive tool indeed. I give FP one star because it does create tables very easily.
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Summary: Very Fast and Easy product to use.
Review: Very Fast and Easy product to use.
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Summary: FrontPage, The New Way To Program HTML.
Review: I am only 13, and I have FrontPage 2000, it came with my Office 2000 Premium. Let me tell you, this is the most easiest way to make webpages. It offers 9 different types of frames with WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) formatting. Which means that you edit the page like it is, no more HTML tags, just as easy as you typing something. The system does the tagging for you, flawlessly! It also offers a "Preview" tab for easy editing and for those who just have to, it offers a "HTML" tab where you can see and edit the page using raw HTML codes. It offers form editing, Java scripting, plug-ins. It even has a "Visual Basic" editor! I mean, what more could you possibly want! This is a tool to beginners and seasoned HTML'ers. It is always fun to mess around with FrontPage. With ample features (more than any other WYSIWYG HTML editors [as a matter of fact, of all the HTML editors]). FrontPage is simply the tool for todays HTML programmers! It is worth the "bucks", trust me! I would say more. but there is TOO much to say, and I can only use a maximum of 1000 words! BUY FRONTPAGE 2000!
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