I agree with most everything Peter has said.  I inherited a few projects
that were built in Front Page 97 and the code they produced is just
nightmarish. For those projects, I had to add a few pages so I built them
in TextPad and then loaded them in Frontpage to add them to the web.
Frontpage absolutely killed my code, adding and removing tags at will, and
modifying others.  Now I *refuse* to use it and do all my
editing/adding/posting to those old "frontpage webs" manually.


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On 2/2/00 at 2:04 PM Peter Benoit wrote:

>I have used FrontPage since it's conception, and still use it on a daily
>basis, but I refuse to ever use it as an editor.  It has some handy file
>manager capabilities built into it (though there are a dozen or so I'd
like
>to see added to it) but the editor is just awful.  If you want to make a
>quick table, frames page, or form it does a good enough job, but if you
want
>to do some advanced editing it's best to set the default editor to
something
>else.  
>
>I'm not so sure that there is alot of "fat" code added in anymore with
>FrontPage 2k, but be warned that even if you have the button selected so
>that FrontPage isn't supposed to edit your code... it will, and has done
so
>many times to me if you use it as your editor.
>
>HTH,
>Peter
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Greg Scott [SMTP:gscott(at)midway.tds.net]
>> Sent:	Wednesday, February 02, 2000 12:59 PM
>> To:	hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org
>> Subject:	Failings of Front Page
>> 
>> I have a prospective client who has tried to use Front Page (and talked
>> his hosting
>> service in to supporting F.P.) in creating a web site for his business.
>> He has now
>> decided that he doesn't have the time to do it himself but wants someone
>> to use what he
>> has done and finish the job using Front Page.
>> 
>> I've never used Front Page, but my impression of it based on discussions
>> that I think I
>> remember from this list were that it wrote "fat" code that in many cases
>> didn't validate.
>> Am I remembering correctly?  I would prefer to just modify or rewrite
his
>> existing work
>> using the non-WYSIWYG editor that I'm used to but would like to be able
to
>> provide some
>> evidence or incentive that this is the better way to go (even though it
>> might not be as
>> cheap if he can find someone else to use F.P. and finish the job).
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
>> Greg

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Phil Babcock
Lead Web Designer
BGS Group Inc.

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