[KLUG Advocacy] Frontpage is the spawn of Satan

[Tony Gettig]

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I'm trying to get to a website that has, to me at least, some very
important information on it. The page seems to have been composed with
Frontpage. The page is even titled index_page0001.htm and looks like
poop in any browser but IE. I want to spend upwards of $600 because of
the info on this page, but cannot easily get the info that will let me
make an order!

All those layers...and layers...not mention the layers...and extra
embedded formatting code that makes the page load as fast as HTML email.
Argh.

Having played with Frontpage enough in the past to know *I* didn't care
to use it, and having recent experience with Dreamweaver (which isn't as
bad but still nowhere near perfect), it seems they all have to settle on
some lowest common denominator. I haven't figured out what that is yet,
other than looking pretty and overly feature rich with features most
users never use.

The best sites I've done and gotten the best comments on are the ones I
have hand coded in a text editor. Additionally, they are the easiest for
me to keep up to date. I have two websites that I intentionally created
and have maintained with Dreamweaver. Maybe I'm not doing it right or I
need to do it more, but it's not been easy. Easy compared to the
maintenance of a website I created by hand. I am converting those sites
back to something more maintainable (and better looking) later this week
with my trusty text editor.

Can someone convince me otherwise? Is the ability to drag and drop
layers really worth it?


Tony Gettig


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