Back in March, I picked up Microsoft FrontPage 2000 for one reason: I needed to make forms without having to gather or write CGI or other scripts. Also, it appeared to be a high demand program with many web host providers offering FrontPage Server Extensions. How could I go wrong?

First I got started on their two-part tutorial. In about two hours, they covered most of the basics someone would want to make a web site. Unfortunately, I don’t make the basic web sites. So I continued on to my projects much of which I couldn’t find the answers for in the manual. After much trial and error, I accomplished what I wanted.

To this day, I continually use FrontPage 2000 for my fun web sites. (Can't let good money go to waste.) I have learned to work around the biggest problem that I have with this program with cut and paste. The problem is that FrontPage 2000 doesn’t normally accept HTML codes the way they are entered in to the HTML view. It changes the code as if it were text.

After sharing that piece of information with a friend, she suggested using the Insert | Advanced | HTML. She also informed me that the code would only show in the HTML and Preview views, but not in the Normal view. Alas, I’m back to my method with putting my codes into Notepad or a similar program and then copying and pasting into FrontPage’s HTML view. A tedious task, but you get used to it. This way I can see my codes in all three views.

In the end, you get what you pay for. I now have the other program that I’ve been wanting. There aren’t any problems with that one to be mentioned of. Needless to say, that one costs quite a bit more than FrontPage 2000, but it was only a matter of time before I purchased it.




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