Rating: 
Summary: Had a hard time with this one
Review: I had a hard time with this one getting imbedded photos. Worked fine locally bu when trying to put it on web site, photos would not go. There was little help. Bought Front Page for Dummies butdid not have a troubleshooting section. This is for the more experience web builder. Not a beginner.
Rating: 
Summary: more stable maybe?
Review: well, it looks a little better, seems a bit more stable, but for the most part, not reall worth the upgrade from fp2000. use that money and get a real frontpage enabled host. that you can control (not the freebe sites)
Rating:
Summary: Sooner or later you'll need Dreamweaver
Review: I bought FrontPage 98 a few years ago probably for the same reason you're at this page now--I wanted to start making my own web pages, but I was intimidated by all the stuff I would have to learn.FrontPage is a great tool to get you started, but, if you talk to enough people, and you spend as time on the phone with tech support as I find I have to do because of problems related to FrontPage, you'll hear the same thing over and over again: FrontPage writes messy code, Dreamweaver does not. Why? Well the answer is both simple and familiar: Microsoft, once again, has chosen to create its own set of standards rather than follow those 95% of the rest of the world uses. Consequently, all the "extra stuff" required behind the scenes to make FrontPage work is essentially incompatible with many other things. In fact, I upgraded from FP 2000 because it had a major bug, a known issue, as they call it--it cannot upload large sites; it almost always gives some sort of error when doing so. Worse, you MUST use FP to upload; you cannot simply FTP your files as you can with other HTML generators. FP uploads in a special way that is necessary for FP to function properly. So, I upgraded to FP 2002, and the upload problem was fixed, but more problems were created. My current web host and at least two other ones (two of which are the largest in the industry) have told me the same thing--they are not supporting FP 2002 yet because it is too buggy. I now realize that I should have just learned Dreamweaver in the beginning, and have a purely Dreamweaver site. That's my advice.
Rating: 
Summary: FrontPage 2002 - A solid web page design tool
Review: For the novice web page designer, this tool does it all. The templates are well thought out and easy to navigate and modify. Once the FrontPage extentions have been loaded into your domain, publishing is easy. FrontPage can be registered and used in more powerful IDE's such as IBM's WebSphere. The speech recognition tool is a plus as well. For the money, it's hard to find any complaints.
Rating:
Summary: wonderful with some exceptions
Review: took me a while to get the hang of it but once I did I enjoyed it. Some things are different like you have to do links manual for the most part. The first time you choose to make a link it asks if you want a email or Web Site link after that it stays with that choice so you have to make links manual.
Rating: 
Summary: FP 2002 can be Trouble on W98se
Review: I've used FrontPage for 3 years and have gotten a lot of milage out of it building my website at www.... I also use my computer as a beta tester for state of the art audio/midi composition programs on win98se. The FP2002 upgrade, or more specifically, the little 'helper' MS office programs that it--automatically---installs, have brought my system to levels of performance I've not seen since windows 95's intial release. One "villian" is a program called mdm.exe, which you will find in your task list at every boot. I think it's a speech recognition enabling executable, and you can't get rid of it unless you edit the registry. Why? Because Microsoft believes instant messaging is the killer app of the decade. Sheesh! Not for me! Knock about 2-4% of you system resources into oblivion, forever. It took me a week to stop my hardrives from caching whenever the system was idle for more than a minute. At first , i thought I was being hacked when my hard drives started chattering incessantly whenever I stepped away. The root of that was mdm.exe and other Office XP "optimizers". Regarding FP itself, there are several nuisances. You lose right click context menus when adding hyperlinks in a hyperlink box. You can still use CNTL V BUT... Opening up a hyperlink dialog will cause FP to scan your entire root directory of your web before you can type it in--about 3-5 seconds if you are on a blazing fast internet connection like I am--on a modem, good luck! This used to be really fast in FP2000! There is a very unsettling bug that causes your index.html file to disappear from the file pane. When you search for it, FP says it was deleted! It wasn't, just quit the program and relaunch and its back. I hope no one loses their main page due to this. Moral: Don't panic. Just quit, relauch. Another bug is in the way FP2002 handles shared borders. It presents you with a very confusing dialog asking you want to replace it on all pages. If you answer "no" you cannot save the page you just worked on. If you answer "yes" it will zero out your shared border, even though the one you just asked it to save was full of content. This is an awful, inexcusable bug. The work around is to make several copies of all your shared borders so When, not if, this happen you can easily replace it. Make sure your cursor never enters shared border land when editing a page. In short, FP 2002 is not finished. It is NOT a polished smooth running application, though it looks very nice on the screen. Microsoft may be using all of us as beta testers. On the postive side there are many cool new features, especially drawing tools and Word Art is better implemented. There is a definite honeymoon period after installing when you are gosh-whiz blown away by the new features. Most of the posts here reflect that, I think. But wait a week of working every day in FP2002 for 8 hrs a day. The intial gush quickly turns into irritation and finally to a questioning of how in the world could they release such an unfinished product. I have to admit I've wondered carefully how Microsoft might actually want to de-stabilize w98se. Yes, it's easier to make a really eye-catching page. But if I could go back, I would not have upgraded to save innumerable headaches fp2002 has caused.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent Product!!!
Review: For the non-web-heads, for those who don't have the time to eat, drink and sleep HTML code, for those who have a life - Frontpage 2002 is an excellent choice for quick and easy web page construction. I have extensive experience in graphic design but have neither the time nor interest to learn HTML. With Frontpage, I not only got two now popular sites running but I'm getting freelance offers to do small business sites for other people. Granted, this is not a software for professionals. As a graphic designer, you couldn't make me use Microsoft Publisher at gunpoint. I'd use professional softwares such as Quark or Pagemaker. So I understand the "disgust" for this product by hard core designers. But I say again, it's not for them. They'd be happier if they stop trying to use it. It's for the rest of us, the average folks in the world. I love it. It let's me do quickly and easily what I do best: page layout and design without the mess of HTML.
Rating: 
Summary: The program is good, the problem is finding support for it
Review: You can do a lot more with version 2002 than with previous versions, but if you don't have a Web Hosting with FrontPage Extensions 2002 running, it won't worth the money you spend on this new version. Stick with a previous version. But if you manage to find a good webhosting service wich supports fpe2002, the you're set for a nice treat. Good luck finding one, though, because there aren't many.
Rating:
Summary: Lots of Cool...and Annoying
Review: I've been using FP 98 since it came out. I didn't feel the need to upgrade until my office upgraded to Office 2000 (to include FP 2000). I really liked the improvements of FP 2000 over FP 98. So I purchased FP 2002. The interface of FP 2002 is much like FP 2000. There are a lot of kewl things added in FP 2002 but there are a few annoying things. 1) Hyperlinks -- now I have to wait while FP scans my entire 40GB HD looking for all possible files I "might" want to hyperlink to. This can take as much as 5 seconds (I have a lot of files). 2) FP 2002 is a resource hog! I have 250MB of memory (running WinME) and if I have Netscape and Eudora (e-mail) up, I will often get "Out of resource" messages. 3) FP 2002 has an annoying habit of restructuring old code, even code done with FP 98! I tried using the method of preserving original code (used in FP 2000) but that didn't work. I had to rebuild several pages from scratch. 4) The "default" new page has a lot of crap on it that I don't want. Jeeze! Give me a bleeding blank page. 5) Just because FP says the font you are using is a certain font doesn't mean that Netscape will see it as such. With all these problems, you'd think I'd rate it lower but the good has (so far) out-weighed the bad mentioned above.
Rating:
Summary: Impressive upgrade
Review: This program is outstanding! I've been using FP2000 and recently ran into an error message when trying to open the root web directly from the web host server. The error said that my web "was on a protected drive". I could update the site using "Publish Web". That became my work-around. I upgraded to FP2002 and was able to open the root web instantly. The photo gallery templates are a nice addition. There are more additional features I haven't discovered yet. I haven't used any of the other wysiwyg editors and don't plan to. I am quite satisfied with FP.
| 
