Posted by Nikita the Spider on 09/12/06 00:44

In article <rZiNg.1484$Y73.212@tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com>,
"Smed" <gsx1300r_busa@yahoo.com> wrote:

> whenever i tell people i use Frontpage for my html editor, they give that
> little laugh and say, "well i guess you aren't serious about making a
> website"...
>
> i really dont see the disadvantages to it but then i have only used
> Frontpage so i dont know the advantages to the others...
>
> why do people hate Frontpage?..

Just about all of the WYSIWYG editors produce poor quality HTML. What's
more, they encourage the bad (and common) misbelief that building a Web
page with HTML is just like laying out a page for a magazine using
Scribus or Pagemaker or Quark Xpress. Frontpage in particular likes to
produce IE-specific code which is bad for non-IE users (like myself) and
bad for standards in general.


> what editors would you recommend?..

I'll suggest Notepad but only to drive home the point that you can write
high quality, interesting pages using nothing but that simple tool. It's
worth doing (but only once!) as a learning experience. FirstPage from
evrsoft.com used to be very good, but ISTR that something has gone
downhill about their product and Web site. UltraEdit seems quite good;
I've been using it on a project for about two weeks now. It has a free
45-day eval period. Then there's JEdit which is 100% free. It is a
general programmers editor and more complicated than you need if all you
want to do is HTML.

I assume you're not using a Mac since you're asking about Frontpage, but
BBEdit is quite good on the Mac side.

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Philip
http://NikitaTheSpider.com/
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