Paul Saunders said:Paul Rooney said:Quoted message said:Get rid of frontpage NOW, before you've put the effort into getting into extremely bad habits.
It's easy to use and it looks OK.
But the underlying code is a complete mess, which makes it very difficult to edit it when you need
to. Even if you don't need to, lots of [censored] gets added as you edit the page in WYSIWYG format, like
redundant tags, which bloat the code and make the pages take longer to load. If you load in neat
code from another program, it messes it up.
I don't like Frontpage because it is a very clear example of the Microsoft embrace and extend
strategy. However, your comments about poor quality code are probably based on Frontpage 97 or 98,
which were pretty dire. FP97 in particular had a well-earned reputation for trashing imported code.
I don't know about more recent versions, but I have to use and support Frontpage 2000 at work and if
you keep an eye on what it is doing and avoid using MS-specific stuff like shared borders and themes
(page includes are safe to use if you know how they work - it isn't obvious at first) then it is a
fairly competent html editor, although I have to admit that I tend to use the HTML editing mode
rather a lot. FP2000 doesn't give much assistance in implementing cascading stylesheets but it won't
mess up your efforts if you add that sort of thing in html mode.
Having said that, I wouldn't dream of using it for my own stuff at home, where I do little enough
for Mozilla and a decent text editor to meet my current needs.
