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Office FrontPage 2003 List Price: £183.99
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Released: 2003-10-21

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Microsoft's FrontPage 2003 combines a slick and easy-to-use page designer with tools and wizards for creating, managing and uploading websites. It is part of the Office family and the look and feel will be familiar to those who have worked with Microsoft Word. You can create a website with a blank page, or use pre-designed templates and themes for common page designs or entire websites. FrontPage 2003 also has wizards for interactive and dynamic features including live links to databases, discussion forums, search forms, hit counters and navigation bars. Some features require a Windows web server, while others depend on FrontPage web server extensions, so it is important to check what is available from your particular Internet service provider before depending on a FrontPage feature. Non-Microsoft server technologies such as PHP or Java Server Pages are not supported by FrontPage tools, so using these is a matter of hand-coding or else selecting an alternative editor such as Macromedia's Dreamweaver.

FrontPage 2003 is a substantial improvement on earlier versions. The editor is well behaved, preserving hand-coded script or HTML code and a new split-view makes it easy to work with both the visual design and the underlying text. Strong new features include table-based layout tools, the ability to create a page design by tracing an image, nested or overlapping layers, better use of Cascading Stylesheets and templates that let you lock some content while making other parts of the page editable by other team members. Coding is enhanced by a quick tag editor and Intellisense statement completion. Flash movies are fully supported and there are tools for the easy display of XML data. There is also special integration with SharePoint services running on Windows 2003 Server, making FrontPage 2003 the natural choice for creating SharePoint intranets. FrontPage 2003 is a feature-rich product which enables good results without requiring knowledge of HTML, while also providing strong support for those who prefer to work with the underlying code. --Tim Anderson


Customer Reviews:
Frontpage 2003-creating a website
Since buying Frontpage 2003 I have at last been able to create my first-ever web-site.Although keen on I/T I am definitely not an expert and I found this software was just right for me. I have been able to create new pages and link them using hyperlinks effectively and pictures, too, have been included easily.In short,I am very happy with the software Frontpage 2003 and, provided the user uses the software in accompaniment with some easy-to-read instructions (of which there are many on the web)a website can be easily and effectively created.I would certainly recommend Frontpage 2003 to anybody who, like myself, is aiming to create their first website.

The app the web techies love to hate
I have used FrontPage for many years and find it a very useful tool. It isn't Dreamweaver, thats why it is less than half the price. What it is though is an easy to learn tool for the production of basic web sites and an ideal tool for the management of existing sites by non-techie users. It doesnt do web graphics well, but if you combine it with other apps like Macromedia Fireworks or similar you can obtain some impressive results.

As for the legendary naff code, well it works (at least in IE6)! And in these days of fast broadband connections, this isnt really a problem. FrontPage pages never pass validation by W3C but, as the average web user has never heard of it, I don't lose much sleep over this.

All in all I recommend FrontPage

Too complicated
Absolute nightmare. I suspect this is a good tool for professional web designers but for creating a simple site there is too much to learn and too much to go wrong without adequate explanation of what is happening. I have spent hours and hours trying to make a simple site and am getting nowhere. Having previously used Frontpage 2000 with some success I upgraded to 2003 but this is even more complicated.

It is 2.00 am and my shared borders, which were working yesterday, have disappeared, I have been through the help pages for 4 hours and now they have appeared in triplicate. I have spent hours at the on line training sessions and still I can't get graphics to stay where they are put.

Idiot's Guide to Web Design
After inheriting the maintenance of an non-profit organisation's web site and having never designed/altered or otherwise a web site/page, I decided to buy FrontPage 2003 and a good guide. Absolutely the best move I made. It didn't take long to get to grips with FP, whether you're used to Microsoft products or not. It's a simple package to use with great Wizards for the novice and an extensive help section for both the novice and the more adventurous. It produces professionally designed sites and, as with most MS products, allows you to incorporate your own designs and advanced features. I'm looking forward to learning more and adding some advanced 'active' features to our new (and now much commented upon) web site. Highly recommended for beginners and the more advanced user.

Very good for the money
I am a software engineer with over 20 years experience and I taught myself HTML from the ground up with NO tools at all, just using Notepad as the editor. That was OK, I know HTML backwards, but it wasn't very efficient. Frontpage removes that onerous task for the average user wanting to be creative and allows WYSIWG production of web pages. However, it won't write the back end code, which the average user couldn't care less about anyway. I rather suspect that more deprecating comments from Amazon reviewers come from those lazy little oiks who want the software to write all the code so they can charge clients large sums of money for doing zilch. The sort of so-called programmers with degrees from former-polytechnics-but-now-called-universities. Real people should ignore them and buy it.


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