Front Page

[Banjika]

I have learned HTML and CSS from http://tizag.epearl.net/
I want to use Front page and create some sort of a personal family website.

Is there any online link that gives basic guide to using Front page ?
If there is something else someone feel like recommending it to me I will be grateful .
Thanks.

[Ricoool]

http://outfront.net/ they have a lot of good frontpage stuff

[robert adams]

Originally Posted by Banjika

I have learned HTML and CSS from http://tizag.epearl.net/
I want to use Front page and create some sort of a personal family website.

Is there any online link that gives basic guide to using Front page ?
If there is something else someone feel like recommending it to me I will be grateful .
Thanks.

IF you have learned html and css, why do you want to use frontpage to create your site. Frontpage is mostly for people that don't know how to create using html and css, etc.


luck,
robert

[docquesting]

Frontpage may allow him to do things that just coding by hand would take too long. This way you can do both and have a very good site.

[DaveyBoy]

Originally Posted by docquesting

have a very good site.

Never thought i'd see that sentence in a FrontPage topic

[Ricoool]

take it easy on the frontpage bashing, it is quiet good for starters and if you combine it with a sharepoint portal server/sql server you have the potential for a powerfull and easy intranet solution

[DaveyBoy]

Not bashing it, I started on it myself, just never made a 'very good site' with it

[Ricoool]

Well if I had access to an online server with frontpage server ext. or sharpoint (only work with a local server) I could show you something that is preatty good, I made it for a 3-4 day frontpage cource.

[akshay]

well.. even i used frontpage and dreamweaver to make my website.. big deal!! its good software.. not that bad like davboy portrayed it

[DaveyBoy]

lol i didn't portray it to be bad

[Jason]

I have used FrontPage for 3 years, very good, just started on Dreamweaver, but neither can replace the other in my opinion. ;-)

[LazyJim]

Originally Posted by DaveyBoy

lol i didn't portray it to be bad

Well anyone mind if I do?!

I had a job where I needed to add a single PHP line to the top of every page in an existing web site. The site was built with FrontPage and the client needed to update it regularly.

PHP code is added to the page as a <?php ?> "processing instruction" which should be ignored by everything apart from a PHP processing program. However, FrontPage saw it and decided not to continue working as my client expected, "we can't update our pages now" they said!

This is all after FrontPage has produced the worst HTML and CSS, and even used JavaApplets for ALL buttons on the page!; - (and my client had made all links into buttons)!

Now this horror story was about fairly OLD VERSION of FrontPage, the latest might be better?

p.s. if anyone was wondering how I fixed it... my client changed ISP who eventually enabled the features I requested, allowing me to use Apache php prepend directive, to dynamically add my line of code when it's sent to visitors, without needing to change the code of the .htm files FrontPage uses!

[Jason]

So what your saying is Apache php prepend directive will automatically insert a predetermined piece of code into every page so you don't have to? I have never used apache, so it would be good to know.

[LazyJim]

it will with the right options set for you account