Posted by Chaddy2222 on 12/20/05 08:01

Jose wrote:

> > With regards to the website editor. Use whatever you like. Or
> > whatever you know how to use and are comfortable with.
>
> ...except Front Page. "Once in Front Page, always in Front Page".
>
> Front Page sites are incompatible (from a designer standpoint) with
> 'ordinary' web design, inasmuch as you cannot just FTP your updates,
> like from anywhere, but you MUST use a client FrontPage program with
> your entire site on it. This is a problem when you need to update a
> site while you are traveling, or when you (or the next designer after
> you) wants to use a regular editor to alter pages. The site ends up
> having to be re-created from scratch.
Yes. I could not agree more with that.
An interesting point with this is that Microsoft no longer cell FP with
MS Office. You need to buy it seperatly. Which I think is great. Exept
that they have made word the default web page editor and........ In
case you haven't noticed. Though I presume you would have. MS Word is
even worse for creating web sites. Infact MS anything is bad for web
design.
If you want a WYSIWYG editor. Go for DW (Dreamwever) if you can afford
the $$$ or use NVU from: http://www.nvu.com
I like NVU as it creates valid code, but it looks ugly and is harder to
edit unless you use the source view in NVU.
--
Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc
>
> Further, FrontPage client generates HTML code which is sent to the
> server, and altered by the Front Page server program. You may -think-
> you've created a table, but you actually end up with something quite
> different. This will create some consternation in the future.
>
> Front Page is part of the Office Suite, and "everyone has it", so it has
> become a popular authoring tool, which helps cement its nonstandard way
> of doing things. I am not aware of other programs which do this (but I
> will certainly be told in this thread of others! :)
>
> My experience with FP is to stay =far= away.
>
> Jose
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