MicroShaft FrontPage 2001

[Munkay]

Seriously, if you want to learn HTML, FrontPage is *NOT* going to help one bit. The code that FrontPage generates can bring a grown man to tears.

It did not bring me to tears, but I genuinely learned the bulk of my html knowledge from using frontpage. And I do not take 50 lines to make a table like FP does :P . I used FP for over a year, and enjoyed it. I made over 70 pages with it. All in all its not _that_ bad of a program for a WYSIWYG editor.

I do most of my web paging in notepad now, and haven't used FP in over a year. I think there is one retaining value to WYSIWYG... and that is that it boost your confidence. It allows you to make a webpage that looks stunning, without taking the 3 months to learn all the code to do it. For me, that gave me a goal, and I spent a lot of frustrating hours playing with code till I figured out HTML.

I am by no means saying that some one should get FP, make a page, never look at the code and call themselves a webdesigner. Merely saying, it gives you the ability to see what you can become capable of, given enough time spent with HTML.

Its a formula that worked for me? :blink: