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Opinions on MS Front Page vs. Dreamweaver

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I'm trying to publish a website for our family business. I downloaded the Dreamweaver demo and it seems pretty elaborate compared to Front Page. Dreamweaver seems to be the program of choice for serious web designers. Should I take the time and learn Dreamweaver? Or is Front Page good enough?
 
I don't know anything about Dreamweaver but I was attepmting to use MS Front Page last night to make a website and it seemed pretty easy and basic, I have heard good things about Dreamweaver and since you're making it for a business I'd probably learn how to use it.
 
Depends on the complexity of the site you want to create. Just like you don't need a professional mixer program to burn a basic music cd, you don't need a professional web publishing software to make a basic site. Dreamweaver is a lot more powerful than Frontpage (and consequently much harder to learn), but if you need a basic site with simple navigation and a professional format, Frontpage is the way to go. There's no need to waste time/money learning Dreamweaver if you don't even need it.
 
dreamweaver can actually be much simpler to use than front page.

i like it a LOT more.

also, it can be much more powerfull than frontpage.

MIKE
 
Originally posted by: Xenon14
Depends on the complexity of the site you want to create. Just like you don't need a professional mixer program to burn a basic music cd, you don't need a professional web publishing software to make a basic site. Dreamweaver is a lot more powerful than Frontpage (and consequently much harder to learn), but if you need a basic site with simple navigation and a professional format, Frontpage is the way to go. There's no need to waste time/money learning Dreamweaver if you don't even need it.
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the site is going to largely informational. the business is a dry cleaners, so there isn't much else to put on the site.

also, maybe some basic information collecting. such as visitors signing up for mailings/coupons.

in the future, we may offer a form to schedule dry cleaning pickup/deliveries and maybe an option to pay your bill online.
 
Frontpage is horrible.
If you are going to "cheat" and not use a plain text editor (such as notepad or vim) than you may as well go with something good and use Dreamweaver.
 
dreamweaver is a much better program and doesn't add in extra lines of code preventing webpages from being viewed properly in browsers other than ie.
 
For those who thinks using a WYSIWYG editor is cheating, do you use a windows OS or some derivative of an OS with a GUI? If so, isn't that "cheating"?
Just my opinion. I'm not trying to start some flame war.

peace
sean
 
i used microsoft frontpage for three years in my semi-professional web design business. when i turned pseudo-professional, (more professional than semi, anyway), I went to Dreamweaver.

Biggest difference?

Take a look at the code. DW is far superior. It takes a little getting used to but it works very similarly to dreamweaver. don't waste your time with frontpage.
 
Coming from someone who knows nothing about making web pages I tried Frontpage and found it very intuitive.

Heard a lot about Dreamweaver. Opened it up, looked around for about 30 minutes. I was completely lost, closed it and haven't opened it up since.

 
I don't know about the newer versions of FP, but even FP 2000 produced the most horrid code. Dreamweaver is the only WYSIWYG edior I would use.
 
If you want code thats clean, relatively platform independent, and anywhere near W3C compliant, you wont even consider front page.

 
I didn't read any of this thread yet, but I can tell you that just learn what you need to for Dreamweaver. Surprisingly, such an advanced program is fairly easy to use. I don't know how much you know about designing webpages, but using tables with a 0 border makes designing sites much easier. That one tip saved me a ton of time and effort, it's like the barebones of any website.
 
frontpage sucks, but dreamweaver is so confusing i cant use it, sadly im stuck with frontpage and microsoft word. although i use notepad to edit both
 
Been working on websites for almost 6 years. Used Frontpage for 1 year. Saw Dreamweaver @ a friend's. Tried it, and never went back to Frontpage.

Dreamweaver is the only way to go. End of story.
 
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