lostinspace said:
----- Original Message -----
From: "rf" <>
Newsgroups: alt.html
Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: IP Address
Richard,
People who primarily have the experience of using the OLD
FrontPage Express have been bashing FP in these NG's for so long, unaware
that hardly anybody uses FPE any more and the full version of FP is much
more capable than your aware.
I actually have a copy of Frontpage 2000 (which I use only as an FTP client,
something it actually does quite well) so I know what FP does.
It produces bloated, last century, IE specific HTML.
It has fully automatic layout capibilities that use tables (bad) and/or
frames (bad) and, at the swipe of a mouse cursor, converts the entire page
to fixed width (bad).
It has automatic forms production which produce forms that rely on FTP
extensions being present on the server (bad) and so require manual
intervention to work in the real world.
Using themes one can automatically produce a menu bar for the entire site,
based on images (bad) with javascript rollovers (bad).
These themes also allow one to for example change the colour scheme or font
for the entire site, using deprecated <font> elements (bad).
Support for CSS is, at best, minimal. Even specifying something as simple as
centred text results in a deprecated <center> element (bad), rather than
applying a style. To use CSS effectively with FP requires manual insertion
of the CSS, which causes most beginners to blindly state that CSS is very
difficult.
If one stops FP from inserting its broken bloated code (by not using themes,
shared borders and most of the other stuff) one is left with a rather meagre
text editor with browser preview (using the IE browser control) and a
reasonable FTP client. Both of these things are quite readily available as
freeware.
Cheers
Richard.