[KLUG Advocacy] Frontpage is the spawn of Satan

Adam Tauno WIlliams advocacy@kalamazoolinux.org
Tue, 01 Jun 2004 09:38:06 -0400


> 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.

Yep.

> 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.

Yep.  I figured it out once, and I have about $2,500 worth of whiz-bang
software sitting in a box in the basement.  It all sucks or paints one
into corners.  It was a very depressing calculation.

> Can someone convince me otherwise? 

I can't.

> Is the ability to drag and drop layers really worth it?

No, later in the game one ALWAYS pays ***DEARLY*** for this
easy-initial-creation.