Is Frontpage Better than Pub 2003 for Website Development?

[Gladiator]

I'm looking for more functionality in designing and viewing my website i.e.
mouse over effects (image information and image zoom.) Does FP offer this
and will it import Pub 2003 files?

Thanks!

 

[Ronx]

FrontPage is infinitely better then Publisher for producing/editing web
pages. However, FrontPage has been discontinued and replaced by Expression
Web, which, in my opinion, is much better than FrontPage.

With 2 exceptions, there are *no* web editing programs that will
successfully import (for editing) web pages produced by Publisher 2003. The
exceptions are Publisher 2003 and Publisher 2007. Publisher is the worst
ever program to use for web pages. It will be easier to start again using
one of the correct tools (FrontPage, Expression Web, Dreamweaver, Notepad
etc.)

More information regarding FrontPage/Expression Web:

FrontPage has been replaced by Expression Web and MS Office SharePoint
Designer. These are NOT upgrades (though Expression Web does have upgrade
pricing). Some knowledge of HTML and CSS are required to get the best out
of these programs.
Expression Web is aimed at standards compliant web sites, and has limited
support for FrontPage components. Expression Web supports PHP and asp.NET
2.

SharePoint Designer is aimed at SharePoint websites, but has more support
for FrontPage Components. Note that Expression Web does not have a
Navigation View if you use FrontPage navigation components - SharePoint
Designer does have Navigation View.
SharePoint Designer does not support PHP, whereas Expression Web (version 2)
does.

Neither program has any support for VML graphics as produced by FrontPage
and other Office applications (WordArt, ShapeArt, TextBoxes and objects
created using the Drawing toolbar)

A 30 day trial for Expression Web is available from
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Overview.aspx?key=web
IMPORTANT: Do not forget the product key obtainable from a link on the
download page.

Sharepoint Designer is a free download from
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/FX100487631033.aspx

The newsgroup for Expression Web is microsoft.public.expression.webdesigner
The link
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.expression.webdesigner
should open the group in your news reader.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

 

[Gladiator]

Ron,
Many thanks. I'll check out Web Expressions. Perhaps I know enough of the
fundamentals to get me started.

Dick
--
Dick Shaughnessy
richardshaughnessy.com
TheLonelyGladiator.com

FrontPage is infinitely better then Publisher for producing/editing web
pages. However, FrontPage has been discontinued and replaced by Expression
Web, which, in my opinion, is much better than FrontPage.

With 2 exceptions, there are *no* web editing programs that will
successfully import (for editing) web pages produced by Publisher 2003. The
exceptions are Publisher 2003 and Publisher 2007. Publisher is the worst
ever program to use for web pages. It will be easier to start again using
one of the correct tools (FrontPage, Expression Web, Dreamweaver, Notepad
etc.)

More information regarding FrontPage/Expression Web:

FrontPage has been replaced by Expression Web and MS Office SharePoint
Designer. These are NOT upgrades (though Expression Web does have upgrade
pricing). Some knowledge of HTML and CSS are required to get the best out
of these programs.
Expression Web is aimed at standards compliant web sites, and has limited
support for FrontPage components. Expression Web supports PHP and asp.NET
2.

SharePoint Designer is aimed at SharePoint websites, but has more support
for FrontPage Components. Note that Expression Web does not have a
Navigation View if you use FrontPage navigation components - SharePoint
Designer does have Navigation View.
SharePoint Designer does not support PHP, whereas Expression Web (version 2)
does.

Neither program has any support for VML graphics as produced by FrontPage
and other Office applications (WordArt, ShapeArt, TextBoxes and objects
created using the Drawing toolbar)

A 30 day trial for Expression Web is available from
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Overview.aspx?key=web
IMPORTANT: Do not forget the product key obtainable from a link on the
download page.

Sharepoint Designer is a free download from
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/FX100487631033.aspx

The newsgroup for Expression Web is microsoft.public.expression.webdesigner
The link
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.expression.webdesigner
should open the group in your news reader.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

 

[Andrew Murray]

Frontpage is better because it's the correct tool for the job.

MS Publisher is a desktop publishing application for printed publications,
not websites. Although it can create HTML pages, this is not its primary
purpose and should not be used as such.

 

[viviane]

I'm looking for more functionality in designing and viewing my website
i.e.
mouse over effects (image information and image zoom.) Does FP offer this
and will it import Pub 2003 files?

Thanks!

 

[Kevin]

Hey Viv,

You will need to move to Expression Web. Version 2.0 is still available from
Amazon but the latest version is version 3.0. As to importing your site from Pub
2003, it should but you have to understand that Pub 2003 is not a dedicated Web
developer and so you will need to find a work around for some things. I normally
recommend people to start from scratch because that way you get hang of the new
software.

You can download a trial version from Microsoft Website. Try this link:

http://www.microsoft.com/expression/try-it/default.aspx#PageTop

Hope this helps.