Alternatives to MS Frontpage ?

[gregoire]

Dear all,

I'm sorry to post such a naive question. I have been using MS Frontpage since years now and would would be interested to hear about other products that would offer all the functionalities provided by MS Frontpage 2000 (almost no coding, links to databases, possibility to set up a discussion forum...).

Thanks for any help.

Greg

[brothercake]

You could try Dreamweaver - http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/ - I don't rate it personally but it does seem to get kudos as being the best product of its kind.

[joh6nn]

as far as i'm concerned, notepad offers even more functionality than frontpage. but then again, i'm eccentric.

[webmarkart]

I seem to be the only person on the board who uses Macromedia Homesite, but I love it. I learned on notepad, graduated to a few sharware editors, then to dreamweaver, and now I've found what I'm most comfortable with... Homesite 5 (www.macromedia.com/software/homesite/)

I will readily admit that its all a matter or personal preference though

[codewarrior]

Originally posted by webmarkart
I seem to be the only person on the board who uses Macromedia Homesite, but I love it. I learned on notepad, graduated to a few sharware editors, then to dreamweaver, and now I've found what I'm most comfortable with... Homesite 5 (www.macromedia.com/software/homesite/)

I will readily admit that its all a matter or personal preference though

Will give it a try :thumbsup: But most Webmasters I've come across use DW MX now ;)

[oracleguy]

I personally like DW. I currently have version 4 but I've heard great things about the MX version.

I use HomeSite 5 occasionally but not very often. It's a good alternative when you need to work on server-side scripting and such because DW is great but unless you get the UltraDev edition isn't the easiest to hand write hundreds of lines of server-side code. I personally just like Microsoft InterDev when server side coding but thats just me. But DW (any edition) unlike FP does know how to deal with SS code when it finds it. In my experience Frontpage destroys any code it can't understand such as server side code.

Notepad is good too but I'm kinda a fan of color code.

[whackaxe]

hey webmarket i aslo use macromedia homesite! actually i use allaire homesite v4.5.2. but version 5 i had certain "problems" with it so i had to stop and also it kept making illeagal errors so i still use 4.5.2. it rocks actually and has some macromedia ype things like exproting to dreamweaver

[bassleader]

I find having my fingers crushed with a giant mallet a reasonable alternative to working with Frontpage. Mallets also have the bonus function of being truly cross-platform.

Seriously though, if you're not comfortable hand-coding pages, your best bet is to learn. I just spent an afternoon at work today disentangling some Dreamweaver code because one of my unenlightened colleagues couldn't get a cut-and-paste script to work. Everything is much easier when you know how the guts of a page works.

I'm also a member of the Homesite fan club. The term "hand-coding" doesn't have to mean painstakingly typing in every character in notepad, it just means that you decide the underlying structure of the page, rather than having a piece of software guess at what you want. The tag editors, colour-coding and code completion in Homesite really helped me learn HTML too.

Good luck,

BL