Wiz Feinberg
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Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 27 Feb 2006 2:45 pm |
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Microsoft will close the book on its FrontPage Web-design program with the release of Office 2007, formerly known as Office 12, late this year. I strongly recommend that anybody who has been relying on the program as their website creation tool find another tool to do that job.
FrontPage creates horrible, non-standards compliant markup that contains huge amounts of code bloat and proprietary tags and attributes. FrontPage websites normally require special "FrontPage Extensions" to be installed on web servers to recognize those special tags and attributes and display them properly. With the demise of FrontPage around the corner it will become increasingly more difficult to find web hosts who are willing to install and manage those extensions, meaning FrontPage users will have to either get a different WYSIWYG editor or learn HTML, and some CSS, and JavaScript.
I can recommend CoffeeCup HTML Editor as a replacement, because it has both hand coding and visual layout editors in it. CoffeeCup HTML Editor 2006 creates standards compliant markup and has buttons to insert all manner of HTML tags, CSS styles, Javascript functions and includes, and will even run HTML Tidy to indent your code to make it easier to read for editing. It has plently of built in help and support from the company.
For those who want nothing at all to do with hand coding, there is the CoffeeCup Visual Site Designer, which is WYSIWYG only.
I use CoffeeCup HTML Editor (since the 1st version), as well as NoteTab Pro, which is strictly a textual code editor. I have a page outlining the various CoffeeCup website development programs on my website, here.
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