Web-site Development Tools

[Nancy Bunker]

At 06:16 PM 7/24/98 -0700, Floyd Ingram wrote:
>Most critics of FP and other MS products are just anti-Microsoft or
>anti-Bill Gates folks with a lot of envy.


FrontPage is a great program if you are starting out a new web.  To transfer
existing pages into FrontPage is a nightmare, however.  FrontPage will
interpret and change the code as it sees fit. We spent so much time cleaning
up a few pages that we gave up.  We switched to Dreamweaver which doesn't
have the same problem.  

Would I recommend FrontPage to someone starting out. Yes.  Would I recommend
it to someone with existing hand coded pages. No. 

I don't think this position is anti-microsoft it is simply realistic. 

Before someone retorts that the pages we tried to transfer probably weren't
good code I will admit that some probably weren't.  Regardless, they worked
with Netscape, IE and Opera before FrontPage translated them and didn't even
look good in IE when FrontPage was done.  It is hard enough to keep up with
the major changes to our site, without a full-time webmaster, let alone
reworking 100's of pages to adapt to FrontPage's quirks.

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Nancy Bunker
Whitworth College Library