Comments on: Web Design tools: Life after FrontPage

By: janu

janu — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:49:06 +0000

this is very nice article

By: Filiberto Rosales

Filiberto Rosales — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:55:08 +0000

I’m not agree with your comment, in fact I think Dreamweaver is very cheaper. If your job is web desing you can earn the enough money to buy it.

And Dreamweaver is very easy to use it, I think is a complete powerfull tool, of course is not for beginers but once you start to use it everything is easy.

By the way I never used frontpage, not even when I was student or when I tried to design my first web page, I think Front page isn’t a powerfull tool, well that’s what I think because I never used it.

By: Del Gundlach

Del Gundlach — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:44:58 +0000

Thanks for your coverage of this issue.

The feature of FrontPage that has been most invaluable to me for my relatively small commercial web site is the ability for real-time updating of my site on your servers. I assume the FrontPage extensions play a role in allowing this. I also assume, whether accurately or not, that there are no other current applications that will do this.

There is no need to upload big blocks of data, I can simply log onto the site, make my large or small edits, save them right then and there, and I’m done. No mucking about with ftp, etc.

I can’t help but wonder if there are, or there will be, any other web design tools that will allow this sort of real-time website updating.

By: Mark Daul

Mark Daul — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:02:41 +0000

Bill, I agree with every word you said. I love my Front Page and when I learned MS had other ideas I was upset. “User friendy” was a correct description. And in a price range where people like you and I feel this is all we need. I am not a geek but want what Front Page offers for guys like me. [and you] We are such a small voice aren’t we? I’m happy that John Mcarthy and SoftCom is going to support Front Page as long as possible.

P.S. I would like to give SoftCom a happy Birthday wish and thank them for being a number ONE host. They have always been friendly and always answered my sometimes dumb questions.

Thanks

By: Charley Jones

Charley Jones — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:46:27 +0000

Sounds like the end of the another era. Front page has been a good friend for a very long time. I do agree though, Front Page does do some rather stupid things, especially where ASP.NET is concerned. Time to grow up, I guess. Just wish Front Page was coming along with us…

By: Marissa Garcia

Marissa Garcia — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:25:41 +0000

I appreciate the information, and ditto to the prior reply by Bill Smith.

By: Bill Smith

Bill Smith — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:41:16 +0000

Thanks for explaining in real-world language the buzz we’ve heard about the FrontPage replacements. My web dev-ing is a low-tech product ancillary to my primary work as a writer. I am not an html jockey, and php, asp and xhtml sound to me like robots from Star Wars.

Okay, I’m not THAT ignorant, but isn’t the software market missing an opportunity to provide a product with the user-friendly ease of FrontPage, the SEO (and whatever else) sense of Dreamweaver, GoLive and the new Microsoft products, and yet with a price tag that mere design mortals can afford. One should not have to be a corporation to afford a an up-to-date web development tool.