What's wrong with Frontpage?
 

What does everyone here have against front page? I use it because it is easily accessable and I know it very well. It is amazing for quick page creation. The only problems I see with it is it automatically adding Creater: Frontpage meta tags and sometimes the tables go all bizerk. Other than that I like it.

Why do you guys dislike frontpage and what are the best alternatives?

I dont dislike it, I just prefer EditPlus

Never heard of editplus. How good is it? I tried dreamweaver mx but I think its too advanced

Because it's made by Microsoft, and it requires extenstions to work. Just another attempt by Microsoft to control things.

i tried dreamweaver for 2 or 3 months went back 2 Claris :1orglaugh don't even make it any more

It doesn't require extensions. :1orglaugh

I know frontpage has some special program where you can create and upload the whole website, I think that might be what your refering to as far as extensions but I never used that. I just use front page to create html files, save them, and upload them with my own ftp.

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Nothing is wrong with it, Dreamweaver is just better :winkwink:

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it only requires extensions if you plan on using the webpublish feature

I hate to admit it but i sill use it on a few of my sites

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Originally posted by aico
Because it's made by Microsoft, and it requires extenstions to work. Just another attempt by Microsoft to control things.
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yea it does - running front page on anyrthing other than a windows server ya gotta have front page extentions installed on the server for it to work.

when I need to build something that requires frequent previews I tend to rely on frontpage and just clean up it's code when done.

what are you talking about? frontpage can just be used as a standalone wysiwyg editor and file suplaoded through any ftp server.

Whenever I view a page made with Frontpage it looks like it's full of all kinds of unneeded code. I'd rather use notepad and keep it trimmed down to the neccessities.

actually I don't think anyhting's wrong with it either. I don't always use it, but still use it some. Makes building galleries quicker.

i know how to use frontpage

The only problems I see with it is it automatically adding Creater: Frontpage meta tags and sometimes the tables go all bizerk. Other than that I like it.

That is few of the problems among others :(

really the only thing it adds is table ids and meta tags. easily rmeovable.