Does anyone knows how to use frontpage...

[renren]

Hello,

Who knows how to use Microsoft Frontpage, especially in inserting and aligning images? Please reply...

[herkalees]

I do, as I'm sure many of us do. Let me save you the time of posting an addition forum topic and say the following:

FrontPage is a wonderful product to use if you're just learning, as it was for me years ago. But, I know now that I wish somebody stepped in and told me to instead learn Dreamweaver in the begining instead of FrontPage. I would've gotten much farther, much sooner.

So, consider this me/us stepping in and saying "FrontPage is easy, but you'll be better off learning Dreamweaver"

[Corey Bryant]

I do as well.

It is very easy to insert the images once the have been imported into your website. Aligning - the best is to use styles.

[renren]

How can I align an image by using my mouse... I tried to align an image with a corresponding coordinates but it didn't work.. I want to align the "top" and the "left" of an image.. How can I do that in Frontpage?

[Corey Bryant]

Well if you are in a cell, you can apply left and top vertical align to the cell and the image would be apply there.

You could consider using a layer which FP makes absolute and put the image in there. I never really care too much for absolute positioning

[EnSComputers]

Like renren I too am having problems learning FP..if there is any other software out there for designing/publishing websites and its free please tell me cos after looking at dreamweaver prices i cant afford what they are asking £163.32 even seen it on ebay for £275.. I'm just starting out in business and finances are tight at moment

[Corey Bryant]

NVU is a free WYSIWYG editor. Expression web is a new Microsoft product, it creates cleaner code but you need to know / understand code a bit more than Frontpage.

[pdbuddy]

I hate front page. Never use it. It should be banned

[Corey Bryant]

Originally Posted by pdbuddy

I hate front page. Never use it. It should be banned

It sort of is. Well right now, MS has no intention of doing another version. They listened and created a WYSIWYG editor that creates clean(er) HTML code.

And they did away with the Frontpage Server Extensions (FPSE). So now all those small businesses that relied on FPSE to handle their website are out of luck. All those people that thought they could build a website without knowing a bit of code are out of luck.

Expression web relies more on the user understanding and knowing code

[JustinStudios]

Yeah, speaking of Frontpage websites, dont. Frontpage is no longer supported by many hosts. I can't tell you how many people we are doing websites for now because their site doesn't work. (Frontpage extensions have been dropped). Now all the good hosting companies gave their clients a fair warning or offer to host them for an additional fee...

If you are looking to maintain a website and don't want to learn the coding then use something like Dreamweaver. Its coding is still horrible, but its not based on made up extensions and will usually be viewable by most browsers.

Also, if you want to actually have control of a website, then learn to hand code. There is nothing faster, easier, less stressing, then hand coding a website, because when you get it to work, and then it breaks, you can generally figure out why it broke and fix it.

[pa007]

Say no to Frontpage. Seriously, Ditch it and fast.

Pete.

[jessina]

yes its true nowadays most web host not accept frontpage, try dreamweaver its friendly software. I too use dreamweaver, http://www.lotteryflorida.net this site I created in dreamweaver software.

[Ryan Fait]

Originally Posted by jessina

yes its true nowadays most web host not accept frontpage, try dreamweaver its friendly software. I too use dreamweaver, http://www.lotteryflorida.net this site I created in dreamweaver software.

It shows that you created it in DreamWeaver. I could create that in FrontPage with less code. Hand code everything unless you want substandard code. Tables. Ugh.

[moojoo]

I love Frontpage! Long live the WYSIWYG and Word Generated uber leet HTML! You slackers better just give up on your W3C hippy crap and semantic garbage. Freaks!

[JustinStudios]

Originally Posted by moojoo

I love Frontpage! Long live the WYSIWYG and Word Generated uber leet HTML! You slackers better just give up on your W3C hippy crap and semantic garbage. Freaks!

Love the sarcasm Moojoo

Code: Select all

<!-- CSS and XHTML Strict hand coded by Mark Evans using skEdit - www.skti.org -->

Wow, your WYSIWYG editor generates lies! COOL!

[karinne]

Originally Posted by jessina

yes its true nowadays most web host not accept frontpage, try dreamweaver its friendly software. I too use dreamweaver, http://www.lotteryflorida.net this site I created in dreamweaver software.

And you should see in FF

[JustinStudios]

It looks like that in IE6 on my pc as well Karinne, all broken and missing quadrants. Just another reason NOT to use design view.