Microsoft web site

[Guest]

I really want to know is the Microsoft web site is created primary using
front page and use front page to manage it. I personally like dreamweaver
much better than front page. May be I am wrong but i feel dreamweaver provide
me more featrues and i think it is easier to use than front page.
I also would like to know how other people's opinion on front page and
dreamwear. Thanks.


--leoman730

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Microsoft has thousands of web sites
- there is probably one out there made w/ FP
But most use a Content Management System far beyond the scope of FP

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|I really want to know is the Microsoft web site is created primary using
| front page and use front page to manage it. I personally like dreamweaver
| much better than front page. May be I am wrong but i feel dreamweaver provide
| me more featrues and i think it is easier to use than front page.
| I also would like to know how other people's opinion on front page and
| dreamwear. Thanks.
|
|
| --leoman730

 

[Windsun]

I read someplace that Microsoft has over 500,000 pages. I suspect they use
some super in-house system.

 

[Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage]

I know they use FrontPage a lot on the Microsoft sites, to what exact extent
and for what particular purpose I can't definitively say.
a lot of their stuff is asp.net database stuff so it may be they use
FrontPage to make templates and so on, and VS.net to write their code, etc.

FWIW; I've got FrontPage, Dreamweaver, Golive, and a whole host of other
programs (mostly image and print layout stuff) and in my opinion where
FrontPage stands out way ahead of the others is it's features that let me
set up a site very quickly (FrontPage includes (similar to DW's "library
files")) and it's features that let me maintain and update a large number of
sites while maintaining my sanity. Not all these features are obvious on
the surface such as the aforementioned "FrontPage includes" and little
things like right clicking a file and choosing "do not publish", tasks view,
etc.

but "digital bigotry" has never made any more sense to me than any other
kind of bigotry, so I try to keep an open mind and use whatever tool seems
most appropriate to the task at hand. Maybe the solution for you is to use
both DW and FP, each for the features you like best.

HTH

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Chris Leeds,
Microsoft MVP-FrontPage

ContentSeed: great tool for web masters,
a fantastic convenience for site owners.
http://contentseed.com/