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Summary: Only Beginners Will be Satisfied
Review: I can only recommend this software to absolute beginners with very little or no knowledge of Web publishing. To its credit, Visual Page does offer have excellent "tour" files and novices should be able to make their own Web pages after the first day. But other users will be sorely disappointed. It is simply not sophisticated enough for many and does not support enough features. I also frequently have a problem with text and graphics being misaligned once published. If you are just learning or need a Web site in a hurry, Visual Page has a lot to offer. But once you're beyond the beginning stage, there are far better Web publishing programs out there.
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Summary: Only Beginners Will be Satisfied
Review: I can only recommend this software to absolute beginners with very little or no knowledge of Web publishing. To its credit, Visual Page does offer have excellent "tour" files and novices should be able to make their own Web pages after the first day. But other users will be sorely disappointed. It is simply not sophisticated enough for many and does not support enough features. I also frequently have a problem with text and graphics being misaligned once published. If you are just learning or need a Web site in a hurry, Visual Page has a lot to offer. But once you're beyond the beginning stage, there are far better Web publishing programs out there.
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Summary: Too old. Get Dreamweaver!
Review: I have used Visual Page (since 1998) and Front Page and Adobe GoLive and Drumbeat 2000 eCommerce ASP edition for creating websites. I DO like Visual Page for one basic reason. It is quick, it is easy, and it is the simplest of all those tools to learn. It is a good quality wysiwyg editor. It It fantastic at handling Tables. It handles CSS1 (sytles) very well, but it is not good with CSS2 (positioning). For positioning use FrontPage or Adobe. I have had to bring several people at work up to speed with HTML and I always use Visual Page as the teaching tool. It's drawbacks are that it does not have "Publish to a web" functionality like FrontPage. It does not have all the FrontPage server extensions to handle dynamic web pages. It does not do ASP and database access. It can manage a site as a project, but this feature is not very trustworthy in my opinion. FrontPage is better at this. I love it for it's low learning curve and it's very nice way of allowing me to use VP to create the CSS stylesheet code in the head of the document and them i simply type class="classname" inside of the tag I want it to be applied to. I rate it pretty high for it's low price, ease of use, stability, CSS functionality, and good clean html markup code. Everybody at work is able to pick it up quickly and run with it.
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Summary: I use Symantec Visual Page
Review: I have used Visual Page (since 1998) and Front Page and Adobe GoLive and Drumbeat 2000 eCommerce ASP edition for creating websites. I DO like Visual Page for one basic reason. It is quick, it is easy, and it is the simplest of all those tools to learn. It is a good quality wysiwyg editor. It It fantastic at handling Tables. It handles CSS1 (sytles) very well, but it is not good with CSS2 (positioning). For positioning use FrontPage or Adobe. I have had to bring several people at work up to speed with HTML and I always use Visual Page as the teaching tool. It's drawbacks are that it does not have "Publish to a web" functionality like FrontPage. It does not have all the FrontPage server extensions to handle dynamic web pages. It does not do ASP and database access. It can manage a site as a project, but this feature is not very trustworthy in my opinion. FrontPage is better at this. I love it for it's low learning curve and it's very nice way of allowing me to use VP to create the CSS stylesheet code in the head of the document and them i simply type class="classname" inside of the tag I want it to be applied to. I rate it pretty high for it's low price, ease of use, stability, CSS functionality, and good clean html markup code. Everybody at work is able to pick it up quickly and run with it.
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Summary: The cleanist code
Review: Of all the HTML 3.0 compatable WYSIWYG web page creators, this is the best for professional applications. The code it produces is clean and requires a minimum of tweaking and parsing before it can be considered production-quality. It doesn't handle 4.0 HTML, CSS(P) or DHTML very well, but works great for RAD (rapid application development) and boss-over-shoulder development. I still strongly recommend it.
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Summary: Too old. Get Dreamweaver!
Review: Visual Page is good for just getting a site up and running. Nothing else. I've had to hold up on my plans for learning DHTML and ASP because of this. Visual Page won't support them. The source code editing is way outdated and attempts to do the breaks for you. Numerous bugs, including presentation of transparent GIFs, make it annoying. I would hesitate to recommend this product unless you are in an economic fix and it already came with another Symantec product.
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