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Summary: Great New Features and Added Functionality over FP98
Review: FP2K is an excellent upgrade to FP98, in that now you are able to target your site's functionality based on most likely browser/version to visit your site. You now have more control over limiting FP2K ability to modify custom written code. I have found FP2K to be very easy to create sites that work in both major browsers/versions.
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Summary: Great For New Web Page Builders!
Review: This is the best program to make a website! It is very easy, fun, and has lots of options! You can make a website for your buisness or personal use. This is a must for you to buy!
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Summary: FrontPage 2000
Review: We love it. Vast improvement over FP98. Very easy to use.
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Summary: Frustrating!
Review: I have created a couple of websites using Front Page, and they have been nothing but trouble. As one reviewer said, you put stuff in one place, and it moves itself somewhere else. My only remedy to this, was to put every single thing on my page in a table. That was the only way my sites looked right. Also, when you publish your web, you can't just publish the pages you changed (that screws everything up) so you have to publish everything, everytime you change your site. I wanted to love Front Page, because it is easy to use, and I love avoiding straight HTML programming. However, it's ease of use does not make up for the problems that fill every nook of this program. If you are a novice programmer, or just want to use it to make a personal website, use Front Page, if you need something hi tech, look elsewhere.
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Summary: The Reviews are true
Review: I have to agree with most of the posts - which I initially ignored. After designing some nice pages with image maps etc., I was unable to upload to the server. Once I hand FTPed the files, none of them worked in Netscape. I uninstalled FP2000 and have started using Hotmetal. It has a better interface, and the exact same page designs work flawlessly in both IE and Netscape. It's cheaper too.
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Summary: Good for starters---Bad For advanced users
Review: I have been using Frontpage for several years now. When I first began using the product I loved it. It was so easy to use, especialy for me who had no prior web experience. I was able to create great looking web pages with ease. For those who have used any Microsoft Office product you will find this software very similar. Yet, now as I demand more advanced features I find Frontpage lacking. For instance I added Frontpage hover buttons to my web site. These buttons worked great with only some browsers. It caused many browsers to bring up many errors. Also many times I had cannot get the web site to look just right. It will look fine in the Frontpage editor yet after it is published it looks completely different. My solution was to switch to Dreamweaver 3. Dreamweaver is just as easy to use yet adds many more features....
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Summary: Buy DreamWeaver instead
Review: Don't buy this product. The html Frontpage creates is so buggy and difficult to maintain that tt is better to buy a book and do straight html coding. DreamWeaver is a superior product. Take it from me, I am a senior consultant at a major computer science consulting firm, and we had nothing but headaches when we used Frontpage.
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Summary: Never learned how to play with the other kids...
Review: Typical Microsoft, never learned how to play with the other kids on the block. There is so much proprietary code (i.e. crap) added to your web page that serves only to slow down load time, and make your web pages incompatible with Netscape viewers. So ask yourself - do you really want to make your website inaccessible to Netscape viewers? By doing so, you may be losing 3-4 out of 10 visitors. Not a good idea. Frontpage is perhaps a good for the entry level software for the novice, but experienced hand coders will probably uninstall it the same day they install it. So don't bother.
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Summary: FrontPage2000 -- fine software, middling support
Review: This is great software to get your own website up and running without any knowledge at all of HTML programming. It's been toprated by PC-magazine and others, and I don't dispute that.My beef is with the manual and online support (forget about phone help). If it weren't for the SUPERB tutorial, you couldn't figure it out using the manual. The tutorial saves the day for FP2000, it really gets you up and going with enough basic skills to take it from there. Don't even think (if you are a novice) of trying to learn the program using the manual and/or the help system. The help system is colorful to be sure, but has its own vocabulary which -- if you don't know the proper (ie, MicroSoft's) term you won't find it. For instance, I imported a WORD document which was automatically converted by FP2000 into HTML format (nice!). But the text in the workspace had every word underscored with dashes. I couln't find in either the index or the help system what that underscore meant. Fortunately, it must have been an editing indicator for it doesn't show when displayed with a browser. Still, I'm up in the dark! If this is the best (and it may be for experts) then MicroSoft has a long way to go in putting some of those billions of profits in writing decent instruction manuals. Again, the tutorial really is superb -- but that should be just the start of getting you going with more explicit details.
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Summary: BAD BAD Thing !
Review: Really, if you need to do HTML editing, your really should take a closer look at DreamWeaver. Now that's a real program that will work with ALL web engines, not only MS IIS !
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