Is Microsoft Frontpage a good web designing program or is there a better alternative?

Answer 1

frontpage is for idiots, like me, who can't understand HTML. depending on what your page is for, i.e. business, personal, just to goof around with, then it makes a difference. for just your own uses like for a blog or personal website, frontpage is okay since it's rather simple and easy to use. for business purposes it's okay too however it looks chintzy and cheap. HTML is somewhat difficult to get a grasp of initially but if you can, then it far exceeds frontpage in every way.

Answer 2

I've been a web developer for over a decade and I work for some of the best design shops in the world - I have "never" seen any respectable developer working in Frontpage. No offense to those who do, but it's a typical Microsoft approach. The code generated is non-compliant and tends to generate code that only properly displays in IE.

Truthfully there are no 100% perfect compliant WSIWYG editors out there today, but the best one is Dreamweaver. GoLive isn't bad either, but Frontpage is just not good at all.

Answer 3

frontpage and internet explorer are microsoft products. so it stands to reason that frontpage would use some proprietary html code that can only be viewed properly in internet explorer. there are over 150 browsers available. the top 5 is all you need to worry about. they are used by 99% of the people on the web.

most of the professional web designers that don't know html and style sheets or don't want to take the time to type it all in by hand in notepad use macromedia (now owned by adobe) dreamweaver. but dreamweaver is difficult for beginners to catch on to.

i suggest that you learn HTML and CSS. even if you don't plan on having your own web site you will still need to know them to customize the looks of a hosted blog site like myspace, blogger etc.

but let's say you are ignoring me here. then here is the wysiwyg html editor a beginner should use the first few times they make a site. it is much easier than dreamweaver. search the web for coffeecup tutorials for help with it.

http://www.coffeecup.com/

in this editor you can write html and style sheets by hand or you can use the wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) part where you just drag things around the screen and the editor writes all the coding for you. then all you need to then is click on FILE/SAVE AS to save it to your hard drive and upload it to your hosted web site.

Answer 4

Frontpage is good only for sites using Frontpage Extensions. Otherwise, it's a cheap imitation of Dreamweaver.

If you're using PHP and/or MySQL, take a very good look at Macromedia Dreamweaver. It's just great! It has tons of code examples and will write a lot of PHP code for you if you learn how to use the database bindings correctly.

Answer 5

Learn HTML and CSS, frontpage makes a cluttered mess of webpages.

http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp is an exceptional site to learn any type of web coding.

Answer 6

It's okay to get a basic idea of designing a webpage, however it's best to learn HTML. I learned from www.w3schools.com it's very easy to learn. That website makes it really simple and provides examples, and you can learned more advanced languages (SQL, ASP, etc.) there too.

Then, you can write and edit your HTML files in code with Microsoft Notepad, like a pro!!!

Answer 7

microsoft frontpae is somewhat basic and anything designed in it usualy requires specail sites that accept front page extensions. I would say dreamweaver is by far the best programme for the serious developers

Answer 8

it makes mediocre non-standards compliant pages... they may work... but they will break down in standards based browsers that don't handle 'MS bad pages'

Learn to do it from scratch, then use a tool that makes beautiful html after designing with a simple & complete gui.

I suggest iWeb, but that's a mac app.

Steer clear from bad code generators.

Answer 9

There are some good ones, like dreamweaver, visual web developer...

Answer 10

I prefer Windows Notepad. Works great.