Ease of use

[Guest]

My computer skills are moderate and do not know any "languages" but am looking to build a web page for my business. How easy is Frontpage to use? I guess i am looking for a "point 'n click/drop 'n drag" capability. Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

 

[JL Amerson]

I think anyone who can get around in Word can create a basic FrontPage
website with little trouble. There are lots of things you won't know how to
do, for now, but if you have experience with Microsoft's other Office
programs, you should be just fine.

My computer skills are moderate and do not know any "languages" but am

looking to build a web page for my business. How easy is Frontpage to use?
I guess i am looking for a "point 'n click/drop 'n drag" capability. Any
advise would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

FrontPage is easy to use, and difficult to master.

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of lots of little things.

My computer skills are moderate and do not know any "languages" but am

looking to build a web page for my business. How easy is Frontpage to use?
I guess i am looking for a "point 'n click/drop 'n drag" capability. Any
advise would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Steve Easton]

kind of like a set of golf clubs.
;-)

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This site is best viewed..................
...............................with a computer

 

[chris leeds]

SEA,
Please don't take this as smarmy but why not just hire a designer or
developer to make your site for you. you'd save money in the long run.
that is if your time is worth anything. It would take a new comer hundreds
of hours to come up with a professional site, unless they just use a site
template, and even with a template which looks kind of "templatie" they'd
spend a good chunk of time. when you could just get a pro to do it for you
and use frontpage for routine changes etc?

My computer skills are moderate and do not know any "languages" but am

looking to build a web page for my business. How easy is Frontpage to use?
I guess i am looking for a "point 'n click/drop 'n drag" capability. Any
advise would be greatly appreciated.

 

[chris leeds]

I think anything; golive, dreamweaver, frontpage, homesite, etc. is like
any other tool. Masterful work can be done with any of them. None will do
it for you no matter how expensive or complicated they are. If they appear
to it's just an illusion. ;-)

 

[Steve Easton]

Evening Chris.
We all have to start somewhere.
;-)

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[chris leeds]

I'm glad I started with FrontPage or I'd have probably quit before I got
hooked. ;-)
Evening to you too Steve.

 

[Steve Easton]

Same here.
I have to *see* what's going on.
I live in html view

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[chris leeds]

I used to think of html view as a last resort but for about a year I've been
finding myself there for speed and ease of use. If I had a nickel for every
time I messed with a nested set of tables in design view where I could have
done it so much easier in code view. Oh, wait, I've gotten at least a
nickel for each time.....wow, maybe I am a professional. ;-)

 

[Crash Gordon]

But if SEA did that we here would be banished to the Pointless Forest.

Obleeo.


| SEA,
| Please don't take this as smarmy but why not just hire a designer or
| developer to make your site for you. you'd save money in the long run.
| that is if your time is worth anything. It would take a new comer hundreds
| of hours to come up with a professional site, unless they just use a site
| template, and even with a template which looks kind of "templatie" they'd
| spend a good chunk of time. when you could just get a pro to do it for you
| and use frontpage for routine changes etc?
|
| | > My computer skills are moderate and do not know any "languages" but am
| looking to build a web page for my business. How easy is Frontpage to use?
| I guess i am looking for a "point 'n click/drop 'n drag" capability. Any
| advise would be greatly appreciated.
|
|

 

[Guest]

I thought I'd give you my two cents worth, as someone who has just started business and is making a web site with front page. I was able to get a site up very easily. Modifying it to be just what i wanted could take a lifetime! but then I get addicted to computer games, too. So i fyou enjoy computer work, go for it. If you don't, your energy might wisely be spent elsewhere, if you can afford to task the website out

If you do it youself, get a good book about it, that has made it much easier for me (step by Step Microsoft FrontPage). Second, ask questions here, I did not find this right away and wish I had. The comment about getting a professional to design it and then just update it is valid. It depends how much money you have. I am approaching it this way: we'll get a site up and going and when things are financially more stable, we'll get help in re-designing it. This way I think, I'll know what to ask the designer for, having had some experience. But, part of the image of my company is the 'home spun' approach. These are factors to consider if you need to look polished right away. If you want to see what a complete novice could do in about a month, go to www.edgeofthewoods.bi

Good luck with everything.

 

[chris leeds]

good response! let me ask you this;
If you knew of someone who would have put together all the pages in the site
that took you a month and did it in a way that was professional in (visual
and execution) and maybe threw in a couple of low level interactive items
(forms) wouldn't you have rather just paid $500 and had that site to edit
and update rather than spending a month building something that you know
will get "redone" anyway?
I'm actually asking that as a question since I like to know what motivates
people.
I guess spending a couple hundred bucks on software and a couple hundred
hours messing with it is because they don't know anyone who could
consistently deliver professional web work for really reasonable $..
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I thought I'd give you my two cents worth, as someone who has just started

business and is making a web site with front page. I was able to get a site
up very easily. Modifying it to be just what i wanted could take a
lifetime! but then I get addicted to computer games, too. So i fyou enjoy
computer work, go for it. If you don't, your energy might wisely be spent
elsewhere, if you can afford to task the website out.

If you do it youself, get a good book about it, that has made it much

easier for me (step by Step Microsoft FrontPage). Second, ask questions
here, I did not find this right away and wish I had. The comment about
getting a professional to design it and then just update it is valid. It
depends how much money you have. I am approaching it this way: we'll get a
site up and going and when things are financially more stable, we'll get
help in re-designing it. This way I think, I'll know what to ask the
designer for, having had some experience. But, part of the image of my
company is the 'home spun' approach. These are factors to consider if you
need to look polished right away. If you want to see what a complete
novice could do in about a month, go to www.edgeofthewoods.biz

 

[Crash Gordon]

I would too if I wasn't a into challenges.

If I was just a business person wanting a web...yah definitely I would sub it out and just update it myself to keep costs down.

But I'm not just.


| good response! let me ask you this;
| If you knew of someone who would have put together all the pages in the site
| that took you a month and did it in a way that was professional in (visual
| and execution) and maybe threw in a couple of low level interactive items
| (forms) wouldn't you have rather just paid $500 and had that site to edit
| and update rather than spending a month building something that you know
| will get "redone" anyway?
| I'm actually asking that as a question since I like to know what motivates
| people.
| I guess spending a couple hundred bucks on software and a couple hundred
| hours messing with it is because they don't know anyone who could
| consistently deliver professional web work for really reasonable $..
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| The email address on this posting is a "black hole". I got tired of all the
| spam.
| Please feel free to contact me here:
| http://nedp.net/contact/
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|
|
| | > I thought I'd give you my two cents worth, as someone who has just started
| business and is making a web site with front page. I was able to get a site
| up very easily. Modifying it to be just what i wanted could take a
| lifetime! but then I get addicted to computer games, too. So i fyou enjoy
| computer work, go for it. If you don't, your energy might wisely be spent
| elsewhere, if you can afford to task the website out.
| >
| > If you do it youself, get a good book about it, that has made it much
| easier for me (step by Step Microsoft FrontPage). Second, ask questions
| here, I did not find this right away and wish I had. The comment about
| getting a professional to design it and then just update it is valid. It
| depends how much money you have. I am approaching it this way: we'll get a
| site up and going and when things are financially more stable, we'll get
| help in re-designing it. This way I think, I'll know what to ask the
| designer for, having had some experience. But, part of the image of my
| company is the 'home spun' approach. These are factors to consider if you
| need to look polished right away. If you want to see what a complete
| novice could do in about a month, go to www.edgeofthewoods.biz
| >
| > Good luck with everything.
|
|

 

[chris leeds]

excellent. my survey is complete ;-) and the results are as I assumed they
would be. <VBG>

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one of the things that motivated me was that I really WANTED to learn how to do a web site.

Plus, being a plant nursery, this is a slow time of year so there are not

a lot of other demands on my time from december to march. If I had not
wanted to do it, and in fact would not have enjoyed doing it, i would have
paid $500 to get it done.

The other part of the issue was in the business start up, there are so

many things to be done, and even finding the resources to do them takes
time. I just didn't have anyone I could trust to do it promptly, etc. I
would have been going blind in finding someone. And didn't want the hassle
of finding out after the fact that I picked the wrong person/company.

Where there were people I knew I could trust and work with, I delegated

those tasks because the search process for help itself not a chore.