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Summary: Good starting point for doing your own small website.
Review: This will get you up and running a web site quickly, plus alot of hosting companies support Frontpage. If you are into MS products; like publisher or word, then Frontpage is probably a good way for you to build your first simple website. You better buy a book on Frontpage however or you'll be lost, the user guide you get with the software is useless. In my opinion the templates [...] not very sophisticated. [...] Otherwise Frontpage is a good [inexpensive]way to get started in web design.
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Summary: Few are better, and this is essential for some web tasks
Review: I am a reluctant user of MS products. Who really wants to give them more money? But there are few better web editors than this. With this version, FrontPage has surpassed Homesite; but DreamWeaver is still better--probably the only better web development application.
PROS
* Preserves true HTML coding--old versions of FrontPage did not do this
* Great project management: easy to create and use templates for managing entire sites
* Great WYSIWIG editor: If you know how to use Word, you can make an entire website in FrontPage
* Direct access to web host: Don't have to ftp back and forth; if your web host supports FrontPage, you can edit pages directly in your account and see the changes immediately
* SHAREPOINT!!The Sharepoint deserves more discussion. Sharepoint is a portal, most likely to be used as an Intranet. It has group calendars, file sharing, etc. You can create and manage your own Sharepoint portal from Frontpage. It is an amazing value for small- to medium-size companies. SHAREPOINT ALONE IS WORTH THE PRICE OF FRONTPAGE! You cannot possibly find a portal for less money. But compare that to the cost of purchasing a comparable portal or leasing one, and this is hands-down a great value. And there is no, I repeat, NO opensource (free) groupware application that can touch Sharepoint yet. (When there is, I'll migrate.) PURCHASING RECOMMENDATION * People who know HTML will code without this product in a text editor
* People who want a WYSIWIG development environment should seriously consider this product, though it costs more than some decent WYSIWIG alternatives--nobody else except Dreamweaver comes close to the features FrontPage has
* If you want highly dynamic web pages (ASP, CFM, Flash, etc.), get Dreamweaver
* If you are interested in a Sharepoint portal, this is a must
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Summary: This software does not work
Review: Quite simply this software does not work, and I've been using other versions of FrontPage since it first came out--check out the Microsoft web site--they have loads of 'fixes' for this software. None of the web component functions work, and neither does shared borders. I can't imagine that they would continue to sell this.
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Summary: Create the perfect Web site.
Review: One word - powerful! It truly amazes me how many tools you have to create, control and grow YOUR OWN Web site! 1.(Management) Get a better understanding how visitors find and use your site. Get the lowdown on your site's performance with enhanced reports. Easy to use forms make it simple to collect information from your Web site visitors. 2.(Control) You can apply XML formatting automatically to make HTML code compliant and publishing has never been easier. ASP and HTML source code preservation. Custom link bars offer more flexibility in setting up how your pages link with each other. Microsoft script editor helps you write and debug ASP and script code. CSS, DHTML and optional hyperlink underlining enhance your formatting. 3.(Create) New and improved customizable themes, add depth to your Web site with Automatic Web Content, edit in your favorite work environment by pasting what you want and where you want it. You can create your own photo gallery and stand out from the crowd with enhanced drawing tools. 4.(Productivity) Add sophisticated technology to your site without having to program. Easily add e-commerce functionality to your Web site. 5.(Teamwork) Instantly create a team Web site based on SharePoint services which help you set up a Intranet site in minutes. I am amazed of all the work I can do with this program. [...]
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Summary: WYSIWYG, For Better or Worse
Review: This is a program for novice web site developers with no formal HTML programming experience. It will produce a product that is excellent for home or personal use, but only adequate for business use. The bells and whistles that spell polish and sophistication just aren't there. It is simple to use. So far, the only glitches I have discovered are relatively inoffensive or can be worked around. For example, don't expect much from the automatic formatting of the table of contents page. If the table you get doesn't resemble the table in your mind, there's no apparent way to fix it. In particular, note that the FrontPage 2002 extensions necessary to make WYS on your computer WYG on a server may not be loaded on the free or for-hire server you choose. After tons of IMs, emails, and letters, it finally developed that they weren't loaded on my ISP's servers and won't be until, maybe, the first quarter of 2002. This isn't unusual, so compare and contrast servers before you buy the software. Otherwise, pick up FrontPage 2000 on the discount table. The manual that comes with the software is inadequate. Buy FrontPage 2002 for Dummies or a comparable guide.
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Summary: Excelent Web Designing tool for everyone
Review: Yes, Great tool is here. FrontPage 2002 will definately change the way we see web site, as with this powerful software one can design site with dynamic contents like news headlines or weather forecasts, with the help of automatic Web content from Microsoft MSN®, MSNBC, Expedia, and bCentral. Even if you are new to any web designing tool, take my word for Microsoft FrontPage 2002. The software is easier then Microsoft Word and very powerful too. FrontPage 2002 has 34 new features then earlier version 2000. To name a few like PowerPoint type Drawing tool,Automatic Web Content,Discussion Board, Dynamic Online Serveys, CSS formating, and Web components like Photo Gallery, Link Bars, Top 10 Lists, List Views from SharePoint Team Services, Save to Database, and Automatic Web Content like headlines, stock ticker, and maps., Inline Frames via HTML 4-based support,Single Page Publishing, Background Publishing,Document Library, and above all you can add e-commerce functionality to your site with this version. With FrontPage 2002 you can design dynamic web site without knowing 'P' of 'Programming' till E-commerce level!!!!!!! As always like all other Microsoft Product, FrontPage 2002 is for 90 percent peoples' 95 percent requirement....
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Summary: Frontpage: Beginners Luck
Review: As a first time web creator, FRONTPAGE 2002 helped me get my website up and running very quickly. Having used other Microsoft products at home and at the office (i.e. Word, Excel), most of the buttons and commands were very familiar to me, and will probably be for anyone who buys it. FRONTPAGE won't teach you concepts of web design or help you design a page that will translate into all the different screen resolutions and browsers out there - learning that, for me, came later. I had to simply get my web page UP. I was a BEGINNER at web design, and shelling out $400 for DREAMWEAVER didn't seem practical (or affordable). I must admit that having learned a lot about web pages, I'm thinking about DREAMWEAVER now! FRONTPAGE allowed me to realize my ideas quickly and easily. The WYSIWYG interface ("What You See Is What You Get") is invaluable to people like me who hardly knew any HTML tags, and didn't understand the difference between Netscape or Internet Explorer. I pubish my web using yahoo as a host, and the interface between the server and FRONTPAGE is very easy. I click "publish" and the files load. Very simple. I really don't have a lot of complaints about FRONTPAGE. Now that I've become more functional as a webmaster, I am starting to understand HTML code and scripts - sometimes I don't even use the WYSIWYG screen, I click on the HTML screen and work "behind the scenes". I reccommend FRONTPAGE for any beginners out there. It's an intuitive, easy to use program that doesn't cost an arm and a leg to get into. Good luck, future webmasters!
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Summary: Flabby non-standards compliant code
Review: If you want to produce standards compliant code that will work with multile servers and browsers then stare clear of FrontPage. Try Homesite or if you have the money DreamWeaver.
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Summary: Professionals Agree: Frontpage Sucks
Review: If you mention Microsoft FrontPage to any serious web developer, you will immediately hear them go off about how awful the program is. I've been making web sites for 7 years and I havent yet met a developer who doesnt hate Frontpage. And this is why: Microsoft wants to own as much of the computing world as possible. To this end, they're repackaging altered versions of standard programming languages that only work with other Microsoft products. In short, if you build your site with FrontPage, the site will always be a FrontPage web site. It will be unreadable to any developer because it generates the most atrocious code you've ever seen. What could be simply done with one line of text is converted to 10 lines of convoluted code that only Microsoft products can read. And what if you want to integrate non-Microsoft elements like third-party ecommerce, dynamic data-driven pages, and so on? Forget it. Throw out your web site and start over. Contrast this to Dreamweaver, which writes clean code that integrates easily with any ecommerce or web development languages, and it's a night or day difference. You can edit HTML directly, or insert ColdFusion, PHP, Javascript, and so on. And beyond that, FrontPage sites look terrible. You can spot them almost instantly. Buy Dreamweaver, and you wont regret it.
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Summary: Not much of an "Upgrade."
Review: Frontpage is OK in general, a bit hard to get used to. This version seems to have a few more web-bots, but I mostly felt obligated to buy it because my ISP doesn't support the Frontpage 2000 Server Extensions. FP still creates pages bloated with useless code and fails to really automate development of some of the hottest technologies in use today, e.g. XML.
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