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Summary: HTML made easy but.....
Review: Front Page is Microsoft's solution to web page creation. It simplifies web pages by giving you three windows. One is the normal view, which gives you word processing type tools. If you are familiar with copy and paste, and changing font colors and sizes, inserting pictures via copy and paste or the insert file, picture, etc method, then that is a giant leap from learning HTML code. No code experience is necessary. That is all in Normal view. If you click the tab on the bottom that says HTML, you instantly see the entire page in HTML. So what you have is the intuitive interface of Microsoft Word etc, and the automatic capability of HTML. If you click on the third tab on the bottom, you see Preview. Preview activates your creation to see what it will look like when published. If you have any active items, like streaming banners, or little cartoon like characters making movements, they will come alive.
A word of caution is worth mentioning. Front Page commands are a bit different in many ways as well. For example when I first learned the program I was frustrated that I could not put type on the following line. It would skip a line, automatically going to double spacing. After doing a lot of digging in the book, I found out that you have to hold down "shift" then press the return-enter button to go down a single line. I don't want to oversimplify the program. Their is a slight learning curve. In a lot of ways it is like a word processor, and in a lot of other ways, it is learning a new language. It follows the usual MSFT learning curve of frustration followed by elation.
So pick up a book and spend some time with the program. After all conquer this one, and you open up the .com world. With many sites offering free web site hosting for the privilege of being able to show banner ads on your site, you can create multiple sites without any monthly charge. The only expense is the annual .com name registration, which is less than ten dollars at GoDaddy.com for example.
So what Front Page does is give you the capability of easily creating web pages (after the slight learning curve) Do you have a business, publish it. What about a social organization, or your network of friends. Interactive sites with discussion boards, that is easy with FP. The sky is the limit.
To take advantage of features like web page hit counters etc, the server you are publishing to must have Front Page extensions installed. Many web host providers have an extension option. After joining you go online and click on the "Install Front Page Extensions" If your web host doesn't have that option you can still use Front Page to your advantage. By creating your web page in normal mode, then clicking on the HTML view, you can take the HTML code, copy and paste it. This gives you creative power in submitting eBay's ads for example. When you use ebay's insertion tool, you simply paste your creation into the description area. When you preview your ad their it is in its full creative glory with colorful fonts, inserted pictures etc. No simple bland black and white text. That is just another example of the new world that opens up to you with Front Page.
I highly recommend the product. Nothing is perfect, but it makes it possible for the rest of us to create stylish professional web pages with minimal effort. Buy it you won't be sorry.
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Summary: Professional Quality WebPages, with ease.
Review: FrontPage 2003 features an excellent overhaul to certain elements of the programs interface. With superior features focusing on making website management and creation targetted to the professional developer, yet making sophiscated web pages for the novice. An excellent feature in FrontPage 2003, is Split view, giving users the best of both worlds by displaying HTML Code and the active web page in real time.The program continues to improve its integration with other popular Office applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access. Users are able to create dynamic content with FrontPage that connects web pages to product databases and hyperlinking documents and spreadsheets is always a synch. Support for third party web browsers is also integrated into FrontPage 2003, this is a feature many users have longed for which breaks the barrier of proprietory with Internet Explorer, opening the doors to Mozilla and Netscape. You can test your web pages at different resolutions, so your web pages always look good. This program is not a replacement for Macromedia Dreaweaver, but FrontPage 2003 is really showing its maturity with this excellent release, and finally reaching the status of programs like Macromedia Homesite and Contribute. It is a recommended upgrade for users of FrontPage 98, 2000 and even 2002, especially if you want to take your web pages to new heights.
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Summary: Not for a large or commercial site? Puh-leeeeze.
Review: Frontpage 2003 is such a major/huge step forward from any Frontpage of the past as to be almost incomparable. Used in concert with ASP or PHP or whatever scripting language, or simply in conjunction with MS Access, FP2003 is more than capable of any size site, huge-commercial, or tiny-personal. FP2003 fixes some of the weird glitchy type stuff from previous versions and includes a broader range of features. The interaction between the actual design view and the HTML code view has become instantly much better. The code that FP produces, notorious for being bloated and crappy, is now very clean & pristine. Included also is a much more complete and adept publishing schema, including full FTP support as well as the usual Frontpage HTTP publishing. Along with FP2003, I strongly recommend Jim Buyens Inside Out book. It is so very complete and is written for the slightly-beyond-beginner to advanced. Amazon link: http://snurl.com/30lg
Along with this excellent book, head over to Jimco Addins at http://www.jimcoaddins.com for some truly wonderful and useful plug-ins to make much more of the FP experience. Overall, a truly great piece of progress in the Frontpage chronology.
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Summary: Perfect for the aspiring website designer on a budget
Review: Frontpage has gotten noses turned up at it by many website developers for years. Frontpage 2003 is sure to make many rethink this Microsoft Product. I've been using FrontPage since version 3 and this is by far the best version. Even if you have Frontpage 2000 or 2002 (which I uprgraded to prior)you will see the dramatic differences in this version. It is a professional website development tool (finally). Slap two monitors to your computer and vola...you can see code and your design mode at the same time (or if you have one monitor you can just 'split' between design and code modes. And if anyone still believes that FrontPage dumps in 'useless code' like it did in versions a long time ago...think again. Not only has then been stopped since version 2000, but now you can 'clean' your code. It's a great version for those of us who don't want to spend hundreds (or thousands) of dollars on other design programs that FrontPage can do equally as well.
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Summary: Not for a large commercial site!!!
Review: Frontpage proved easy enough to learn. I bought the book Frontpage Inside Out which is a thousand-page bible for its use. The book was well-indexed so I could hop around and master the tasks which I wanted to accomplish. The problem for me was that I was building a graphically-intense commercial site with thousands of photos. My site worked well until I had about 500 products listed, then save times became unbearable. Frontpage also became increasing unstable and, at one point, it crashed and lost 3,000 of my photos. The real problem was that it worked well in the beginning and I continued to go down a blind alley with this software which eventually made it impossible to use. If you intend to make a large commercial site, Frontpage sucks! I also used Microsoft Access in conjunction with this as my data base. Another mistake.... I'm not a developer, just a guy out making a living on the web with a reasonably successful idea. Frontpage left me high and dry at the worst possible moment. If you want to make a site to show birthday photos and anniversary pictures, it would be great. It has no place, however, in the real world of e-commerce unless you're planning to fail from the start. I wish that one of the IT pros I spoke with had told me this from the start. Unfortunately, the thing most missing from this Information Age is reliable information you can count on. As a novice, I wish you luck in not paying some steep tuition to learn about all this. The problem is that geeks seldom communicate well with people, so asking often does no good. If they could communicate they wouldn't be geeks.
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Summary: Microsoft Frontpage 2003
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Summary: Frontpage 2003 vs. 2000
Review: I am not a computer idiot. I know my way around Microsoft Publisher, Word, and Excel (that is to say I can get what I want out of them). However, when it came to FrontPage 2000 I found I was a bit out of my league. Not well conversant in HTML or XML (web page languages), I found myself dismayed. MS Publisher has web page creation that I found simple and easy to use, it just lacked all the nifty bells and whistles I really needed to make my site rock. So...the problems I had with FrontPage 2000 seem to have disappeared with the 2003 version. It's much easier to use (not as easy as Publisher), but I have found it to be a great improvement over the 2000 version. So far, I have only run into one major problem (major for me). I used to be able to insert a drop-down boxes, I find that I am no longer able to do that. It's probably my problem since I haven't purchased a 1,000 page book describing where they have moved it to (the upgrade only comes with a 27 page book that isn't all that helpful to me. As for being able to place, display, and organize my page...its loads better than the 2000 version. Now, if only I could figure out how to get it to find my old clip art...;)
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Summary: A MUST GET Upgrade or full version
Review: I have been used FrontPage since version 1. Every version gets better and better. If you are a Do It Yourselfer, you should REALLY checkout this new version. Though it is not perfect and there are some thinks that are needed, you will be hard pressed to notice the short comings. Over all a great job and you will soon be hearing more about this must have product for web developers. One of the best features is the split pane view for CODE and DESIGN veiws, this way you can type code and see your results as you type. I am not the best tyist or th ebest coder, so FP 2003 really makes my life simple by letting me just type what I want and putting this there. The new FTP to servers with FtontPage Extentions has gotten a much need overhaul. Well I can go on and on. If you want to design / develope Internet or Intranet webs, you NEED FrontPage 2003!
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Summary: What FrontPage should have been all along
Review: I have used FP since it first came out. I love it. I have 77 sites and a couple of businesses. My average site is fairly large with sometimes 2000 pages and then there are products for sale. Yes Front page can be used for a business however the one problem that is correctly stated by these reviews is that it does not offer the ability to do special graphics such as mouseover effects that can only be made with Dreamweaver or other products if you need fancy graphics you will need another product to produce it. But then again such fanasy websites with script and java often have their own drawbacks such as problems with search engines listing them. This program will do for 99% of your sites and will allow flash presentations.
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Summary: Oh yes this can make large commercial sites
Review: I have used FP since it first came out. I love it. I have 77 sites and a couple of businesses. My average site is fairly large with sometimes 2000 pages and then there are products for sale. Yes Front page can be used for a business however the one problem that is correctly stated by these reviews is that it does not offer the ability to do special graphics such as mouseover effects that can only be made with Dreamweaver or other products if you need fancy graphics you will need another product to produce it. But then again such fanasy websites with script and java often have their own drawbacks such as problems with search engines listing them. This program will do for 99% of your sites and will allow flash presentations.
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