Rating  - Professionals Agree: Frontpage Sucks
If you mention Microsoft FrontPage to any serious web developer, you will immediately hear them go off about how awful the program is. I've been making web sites for 7 years and I havent yet met a developer who doesnt hate Frontpage. And this is why:
Microsoft wants to own as much of the computing world as possible. To this end, they're repackaging altered versions of standard programming languages that only work with other Microsoft products.
In short, if you build your site with FrontPage, the site will always be a FrontPage web site. It will be unreadable to any developer because it generates the most atrocious code you've ever seen. What could be simply done with one line of text is converted to 10 lines of convoluted code that only Microsoft products can read. And what if you want to integrate non-Microsoft elements like third-party ecommerce, dynamic data-driven pages, and so on? Forget it. Throw out your web site and start over.
Contrast this to Dreamweaver, which writes clean code that integrates easily with any ecommerce or web development languages, and it's a night or day difference. You can edit HTML directly, or insert ColdFusion, PHP, Javascript, and so on.
And beyond that, FrontPage sites look terrible. You can spot them almost instantly.
Buy Dreamweaver, and you wont regret it.
Rating  - Frontpage: Beginners Luck
As a first time web creator, FRONTPAGE 2002 helped me get my website up and running very quickly. Having used other Microsoft products at home and at the office (i.e. Word, Excel), most of the buttons and commands were very familiar to me, and will probably be for anyone who buys it.
FRONTPAGE won't teach you concepts of web design or help you design a page that will translate into all the different screen resolutions and browsers out there - learning that, for me, came later. I had to simply get my web page UP.
I was a BEGINNER at web design, and shelling out $400 for DREAMWEAVER didn't seem practical (or affordable). I must admit that having learned a lot about web pages, I'm thinking about DREAMWEAVER now!
FRONTPAGE allowed me to realize my ideas quickly and easily. The WYSIWYG interface ("What You See Is What You Get") is invaluable to people like me who hardly knew any HTML tags, and didn't understand the difference between Netscape or Internet Explorer.
I pubish my web using yahoo as a host, and the interface between the server and FRONTPAGE is very easy. I click "publish" and the files load. Very simple.
I really don't have a lot of complaints about FRONTPAGE. Now that I've become more functional as a webmaster, I am starting to understand HTML code and scripts - sometimes I don't even use the WYSIWYG screen, I click on the HTML screen and work "behind the scenes".
I reccommend FRONTPAGE for any beginners out there. It's an intuitive, easy to use program that doesn't cost an arm and a leg to get into.
Good luck, future webmasters!
Rating  - Not like its hyped up to be...
First of all I'm going to say its very good for novices. BUT BE WARNED: The server extenshions dont work well. I had my entire site relying on them (big mistake) and then to make a long story short I looked at it one day and it had fried. I was so mad. By the way though if your a student (K-12) try and get the education version of Studio MX, its better and costs about fifty dollars more. But if you dont fit the requierments and your on a budget I'd go with FrontPage. (Also if you can afford Dreamweaver too buy them both, they work really good together.)
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