Advantages: Much better HTML, CSS & scripting support, easy to use Disadvantages: some features rely on Sharepoint Services which most people won't have.
features such as Web logs, news feeds, reviews and so on although these are dependent on the presence of SharePoint Services. This is a bit of a limitation though as it is far from easy to find a host that supports that unless you are hosting it yourself.
What is very clear with this release is how much attention Microsoft have been paying to the competition. Many of the new features are lifted from ideas pioneered by Dreamweaver. Microsoft has even gone so far as providing compatibility with Dreamweaver's own DWT format web templates.
FrontPage does still look very much the same though, sharing the common look and feel of other Microsoft Office 2003 products making it easy for novices to get up and running without too much pain. Anyone who is used to using Microsoft Office will find FrontPage easy to work with for simple web pages ...
Advantages: Useful and easy Disadvantages: Basic and HTML not so easy to access
I am quite new at building webpages and HTML so coming across Frontpage has helped enormously.
The editor allows page construction to be undertaken graphically on the page without having to write HTML. When finally you do learn some HTML it is very easy to write in the HTML editor where all the tags ahve a colour associated with them so you can instantly tell what is wrong. Also, you can instantly see the effects of the HTML you have written on the page as it is displayed.
Another useful feature is that you can click 'edit' in your web browser (IE users) and read, modify and save another persons site and HTML and copy bits into your own page.
This is especially useful for itmes of javascript or difficult HTML items.
Lastly, the program gives you the option to save straight to a web server or to your hard disk.
Frontpage is not ...
I would just like to write a review on the new rates page, something that has not been here for very long but I am sure that a lot of us have already seen it by now. If not, then no doubt you will do once you have finished reading this review! Or unless you have fallen asleep by then.
Whereas the general ideas behind rating a review is still just the same, the actual page itself has changed - but in my opinion, for the worse. It is all a lot of clutter in a small space, with the actual review somewhere in the middle of it all.
Once you have finished reading the review, at the bottom of the screen are the buttons for how you wish to rate the review - off topic; not helpful; somewhat helpful; helpful; very helpful, and exceptional. As soon as you have done this, you also then have the same usual opportunities in order to comment ...
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