Frontpage

[themedinaway]

hello,

I wanted to know: does www.bluehost.com support Frontpage?

Thanx.

[felgall]

BlueHost still support FrontPage extensions at the moment.

Microsoft discontinued support for FrontPage over a year ago so any issues with it any the web hosts that still support it may decide to discontinue their support.

[Reverend]

For the love of god, please get a real editor.

I know Frontpage is the "layman's" tool, but seriously, who the hell tries to dig a well with a pitchfork?

Use a tool that will get the job done and not cause untold problems for everyone involved.

Kompozer is free. Nice, simple, easy to learn and use.

Dreamweaver is fantastic, has a learning curve, is way more powerful, but does cost money.

As a web developer, nothing pisses me off more than hearing from a client "I created this in Frontpage", especially when using a linux host like bluehost.

[felgall]

The only program that Microsoft currently have that is intended for creating web pages is "Expression Web". No other Microsoft program is capable of producing web pages that comply closely enough to web standards to display properly in all browsers.

FrontPage was a usable program back when Internet Explorer had 98% of the browser market as pages created with FrontPage while not complying with the standards still worked in IE6. Now that IE only has 53% of the market pages produced in FrontPage will have problems for almost half your visitors whuich is why Microsoft killed it off last year and replaced it with "Expression Web" since fixing FrontPage was considered to be too hard.

No other Microsoft program is intended for producing web pages at all. The proprietary "HTML" that other MS programs produce is a common MS format for transferring files between MS programs and it is easier to save content from any of those programs in plain text and add the HTML tags yourself than it is to delete all the code from those files intended to tell the various Microsoft programs how to recreate the original file in their format.