To buy frontpage or not?

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Andrew

Hello,
I am very new at the web publishing thing, and I have been using
microsoft publisher so far. I have been told that frontpage is much
better, but I have also been told that certain host sites, such as
yahoo, will not accept anything published by frontpage? Is this true?
Are there any known limitations for frontpage?

thanks,
Andrrew
 
Andrew said:
Hello,
I am very new at the web publishing thing, and I have been using
microsoft publisher so far. I have been told that frontpage is much
better, but I have also been told that certain host sites, such as
yahoo, will not accept anything published by frontpage? Is this true?
Are there any known limitations for frontpage?
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If you want to use FrontPage extensions in your sites, which you may, you'll
need a host which supports them. In my experience, every decent host I've
ever worked with or looked into has supported FP extensions.
 
Hi Andrew
First FP 2003 is probably one of the most underated web editors, maybe the
stigma stays from FP 2002, et al !. If you do not want to spend packets then
FP 2003 is a great but, retailing now at £100 uk About $160 or so. Or if you
want to wait until Expression web comes out next year, this is a top editor
but I fear the cost could be pretty high I guess £300 or just below $600. If
I was you I would go with FP2003.
 
Mostly images. Often a page is just one or two big images, including
the text.
Everything is absolutely positioned.
And VML reigns supreme.
It may not be impossible to convert, but it is much easier to start
again in FrontPage.
--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
FrontPage Support: http://www.frontpagemvps.com/
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp
 
Wacko html.

I tried to help someone on publisher.webdesign ...one page had THOUSANDS of
lines of "html". You (the collective you) could probably fix it in a few
weeks/months, but it's much faster just redoing the site.


| I'm wondering why that is, Steve - aren't Publisher web sites just HTML
and
| images?
|
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| | > Keep in mind that the webs you have created with Publisher will not be
| > compatible with FrontPage, and that there is no way to convert them to
| > FrontPage webs.
| >
| >
| > --
| > Steve Easton
| > Microsoft MVP FrontPage
| > FP Cleaner
| > http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/fpclean.htm
| > Hit Me FP
| > http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/HitMeFP.htm
| >
| > | >> Hello,
| >> I am very new at the web publishing thing, and I have been using
| >> microsoft publisher so far. I have been told that frontpage is much
| >> better, but I have also been told that certain host sites, such as
| >> yahoo, will not accept anything published by frontpage? Is this true?
| >> Are there any known limitations for frontpage?
| >>
| >> thanks,
| >> Andrrew
| >>
| >
| >
|
|
 
Publisher is for PRINT media, not websites.

Although it has an option to "publish" html, the html it makes is really
horrible.
 
In fact it would be easier to write a site in Cobol in Notepad than to
convert a Publisher made site.
 

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