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Summary: A product with room to grow
Review: If you are new to web publishing then Frontpage 2000 may be the way to go. It does not quite offer the same level of handholding that the other Office Suite products offer (like Word). For example, the help file is not as complete as you would expect if you were a long time Word user. But if you are willing to work at it, you can become proficient at publishing fairly complex web pages.If you want to make your website interactive then be sure you get a website host that uses the Frontpage Extensions. A couple of drawbacks of this software are: 1. It crashes a lot under Win 95 (surprise) 2. The web pages do not, by default, save locally automatically. If you are working on 5 web pages at a time you have to remember to save each one every 15 minutes due to it crashing often. 3. The pages created in MS Frontpage 2000 often look different in Netscape than they do in Internet Explorer. Some major pluses: 1. It lets you manage even very complex websites with ease. FP 2000 offers powerful management tools that let you see all your web pages in one place with all the directory structure intact. That is a huge bonus if you have to maintain several websites and update on the fly often. Your websites stay local and you update the entire online portion with the click of a button. 2. It has spellcheck. Surf the net a bit... nuff said =-) 3. It is comprehensive and will allow most novice to intermediate web designers to do what they need to do without learning a line of HTML.
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Summary: IT WORKS but get a host with frontpage extensions
Review: well, if you have an idea about making web pages frontpage 2000 is a big improvement over other version, hit works is for the most part stable and it does produce a nice site and fast. if you don't have the time to make a complete site ms fp2000 does it well. i helps to know how to edit html also. now if you really want to see frontpage work, upload to a server with frontpage server extensions. the free hosts with server extensions do not work well and you want get any support, get a dedicated server that handles fp extensions
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Summary: Good editor for beginners....
Review: After working with web technologies and design for almost a decade, I can say that Microsoft has definitely held up the expectation of software for the non-experienced user. FrontPage 2000 is good for people who wish to create a website of thier own and don't know the first thing about HTML or any other web programming language. Everything with this editor is point and click as typical with any Microsoft product. While this editor is good for the beginner, more advanced web designers may find it difficult to work with. From personal experience, I have had trouble writing HTML code manually through it for more advanced functions as well as it not working well with designing Cold Fusion or PHP pages.
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Summary: Good for simple pages, but get a smart cookie to fix code!
Review: I truly like FrontPage 2000, and I *love* the fact that Microsoft recognized that all of us drones out here really do want to be able to work with the code: They've given us an HTML tab right on the page so we can toggle between editing in a WYSIWYG screen, which is all many will ever need or want, a preview screen, and an HTML screen, so we can see just WHY our tables are nesting so strangely. I also like the features that allow me to run mini-reports such as Recently Added Files, Recently Changed Files, and Slow Pages. Also a bonus: FrontPage 2000 now lets me work in layers with "z-indexes." Unforntunately, you need to realize what Netscape does to z-indexes (ignores them unless you order them numerically), and that it will chew up your pages and spit them out if you have a FrontPage form and z-indexes on a page at the same time. Sigh. Why can't Netscape just try to get along? I used to love Netscape, but they have made my life hell recently. One drawback to FrontPage 2000: if you have a large site, its "publishing" feature is DEATHLY SLOW. And I have DSL. I have turned the publishing status on all pages off, and publish via FTP as I need too, and only publish those pages with forms, etc., that need FrontPage server extensions. Be forewarned: your server might not like this mix-and-match routine. Mine always rewrites my password for some reason and I have to go back in and change it before I can post via FTP again. I don't know if it's the server or FrontPage though.....
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Summary: Great improvement over Frontpage 98
Review: If you have Frontpage 98, get rid of it and buy this version. I had Frontpage 98 and so many things are harder to do in it than it is in Frontpage 2000. If you are toying with the idea of trying a piece of software out to create webpages for you, this is a great one. However if you are new to doing webpages, you might want to read the book that comes with this so you will understand what you are doing. One warning and this has occurred in several areas, not many of the real neat Frontpage web objects that you can insert on your webpage will work with the "free" 5MB of free space your ISP provider gives you with a internet access subscription. This even includes simple stuff like counters and navigation bars. I think there is a way you can get this stuff elsewhere, I just haven't tried this yet. However the point is, some of the whiz-bang stuff Frontpage gives you won't work on these sites. So if you make this real glitzy cool page before you start uploading to your website, don't be surprised when it balks and says you don't have support for these features. What I also liked about this product over Frontpage 98, was that the ftp interface was easier to use, one button and one address gets you where you need to go. Also, the new page checking mechanism with a task scheduler makes it neat to keep track of the work you are doing on each page. I'm still not using much of the full capacity. However, the ease of use of this product made it real simple for me to upload a page and photos to my ISP's provided home page to sell some stuff on ebay. That is initially all I wanted to use it for and I was struggling to do this before. I am confident that this will also make it a whole lot easier for me to do even more complicated pages in the future. Since it is easy to get to the html code, I can alter that and see the results before I publish. The only negative is the lack of support for the neater features, I hope Microsoft would work out some of these issues so we can use all of it's capability by the next release.
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Summary: Woudn't use anything else
Review: I have have created about half a dozen websites using FrontPage and overall have been extremely happy with it. It's reasonably easy to use and turns out great looking websites. I've also been extremely happy with their technical suppport. I usually get through without a wait, and have found their staff to be friendly, helpful, and knowlegable.
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Summary: Front Page is mediocre.
Review: If you are looking for a software package to get started with creating web pages, try Adobe GoLive. Although MS Front Page has some nice features, you will find that you will soon want to expand beyond it. This program is very limiting!
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Summary: Another lousy product from MS
Review: Don't waste your money on this, while it looks appealing and can create pages quickly, there are better alternatives available. Some complaints...First if you decide to use themes Microsoft will allow you to edit the HTML code and then wipe it out even if you tell it to preserve the HTML source. Another issue I have is bringing a pre-existing page into Frontpage, I've had numerous problems with frontpage wiping out the code and saving a bad copy. Save yourself the frustration and buy Macromedia's Dreamweaver instead.
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Summary: My complaints about Frontpage
Review: are similar to the complaints of the other people here. It has a user interface that is pretty simple and easy to pick up, but in other areas this application falls short. Even when viewed in Microsoft's Internet Explorer the pages often don't look the same as they did when you were building them in Front Page. Time and again I would load a page into the browser only to find the alignment of text and images was all wrong, or text was no longer in bold face as I had wanted. Since the html is so verbose and convoluted, it is almost impossible to fix "by hand". There was also a noticable drop in the quality of many jpegs and gifs when I imported them into Frontpage. I wonder if anyone else had this problem? Often the pictures would come outlooking smudged or murky, and the edges of objects would not be sharp. I actually found the html editor in Word to be preferable. It didn't have Frontpage's capabilities, but it was far more reliable. At least the pages looked the same in the browser as in the editor, for the most part.
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Summary: Great for beginners and seasoned web developers
Review: FrontPage 2000 deffinatley makes up for the short comings of FP98. Now you can edit your source code directly without having the editor jack it up(the editor is actually gone in this new version, it's all combined into one). The database integration is great, however you should hand code your asp so not to reveal details about your data source. All-in-all, FP2000 is outstanding. It allows easy office integration and lots of tools for site management, which is makes it great for webmasters and site reports. I have tried Visual Interdev, Drumbeat, and others, but I feel this is the best product for me. Many argue this choice, but I say "buy it, try it, and enjoy it."
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