Re: web development tools-Dreamweaver vs. Frontpage 2003

From: Stefan B Rusynko (sbr_enjoy_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/12/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:40:52 -0500

The single best feature in FP is site management
- especially live online thru http

Agree
The webbots are tools for those that don't know how to do it
- just as DW "tools" don't do anything an experienced developer can't do w/ notepad if needed 

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"Murray" <forums@HAHAgreat-web-sights.com> wrote in message news:%23LW1%23HMyEHA.3368@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
| > There are things you can do in FrontPage that
| > you can't do in Dreamweaver, and vice versa.
|
| To be fair, I would say it this way -
|
| There are things that FP does "automatically", or via the intervention of
| some wizard, that must be done manually (or via the intervention of some 3rd
| party script) in Dreamweaver (examples would be guestbooks, form processing,
| slide shows, etc.).  To be truthful, most of these things are things that
| *I* would want to do manually anyhow, but that's not really fair, because I
| *know* how to do them already. 8)  Some of them are things that you can find
| 3rd party extensions for (a concept similar to the FP design-time
| extensions).
|
| In general, wizard code is fragile code, in my experience....
|
| -- 
| Murray
|
| "Kevin Spencer" <kspencer@takempis.com> wrote in message
| news:uqDM7$LyEHA.4004@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
| >> If the outside developer spices up our
| >> web site with drop-down menus and mouse-over effects, will Frontpage
| >> still
| > be
| >> able edit the code created with Dreamweaver.
| >
| > It depends on what the code IS, and what the code DOES. If your site uses
| > a
| > lot of FrontPage proprietary components, esp. Themes, Shared Borders,
| > Naviagation, etc., you are pretty well stuck with FrontPage. On the other
| > hand, many FrontPage web sites don't use these proprietary conveniences,
| > and
| > can be worked on with virtually any toolset.
| >
| >> Are there any incompatiblity
| >> issues with a web page created by Dreamweaver and Frontpage edits.
| >
| > Same answer.
| >
| >>Our major
| >> concern is that the handful of resident web authors will need to be
| >> re-trained with Dreamweaver. My understanding is that Frontpage can do
| >> anything that Dreamweaver can. Is this correct?
| >
| > HTML is HTML. Some web components in FrontPage are proprietary, but
| > anything
| > that isn't can be manipulated in either program. As to FrontPage being
| > able
| > to do anything that Dreamweaver can do, well, again, we have to
| > differentiate between common HTML and things like proprietary components,
| > server-side programming, etc. There are things you can do in FrontPage
| > that
| > you can't do in Dreamweaver, and vice versa. But the bulk of a web site is
| > simply HTML.
| >
| > -- 
| > HTH,
| > Kevin Spencer
| > .Net Developer
| > Microsoft MVP
| > Neither a follower
| > nor a lender be.
| >
| > "lkhntr" <lkhntr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
| > news:D7E5EBE0-160C-41AB-AAD7-5B99A8C9C787@microsoft.com...
| >> Please advise on any difference between Macromedia Dreamweaver and
| > Microsoft
| >> Frontpage. We have a situation where an outside developer is wanting to
| > use
| >> Dreamweaver to spice up our website. If the outside developer spices up
| > our
| >> web site with drop-down menus and mouse-over effects, will Frontpage
| >> still
| > be
| >> able edit the code created with Dreamweaver. Are there any incompatiblity
| >> issues with a web page created by Dreamweaver and Frontpage edits. Our
| > major
| >> concern is that the handful of resident web authors will need to be
| >> re-trained with Dreamweaver. My understanding is that Frontpage can do
| >> anything that Dreamweaver can. Is this correct?
| >
| >
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