At 08:34 PM 6/24/1998 -0500, Julie Silverman so eloquently stated:
>At 05:39 PM 6/24/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>So, to summarize, the product may not work as well as hand-coding for
>>design, but it is possible to use it quite successfully for maintenance and
>>updates. [Note: these pages have no JavaScript, and I've heard that
>>importing pages with JavaScript can cause FP to delete the JavaScript, so
>>without more info on that I wouldn't try using FP to edit a page with
>>rollovers at this point in time.]
>
>Hello,
>
>I've been an on-again, off-again lurker on this list since its inception
>(sometime in late '96?), but have to put my 2-cents in on the FrontPage
>thread.
>
>My company has offered professional web site design and hosting services
>since 1994. With customers in over 30 states, I'd say we're a fairly
>respectable regional, if not national IPP.
>
>Guess what? We build everything in MS FrontPage. <gasp!> Guess what else?
>Our customers are happy with our design services and reasonable rates, we
>get tons of referrals and have an enormous backlog of web site design jobs.
> Anyone want a job? If you know FrontPage like the back of your hand,
>WE'RE HIRING. <I can hear the .html purists gnashing their teeth as I
>type.>
>
>Here's something to think about. Our customers dig us because once we're
>done building their site, they have the option of taking over as webmaster
>- and it's easy for them to do it with a product like Frontpage. It's easy
>from a user standpoint, and it's easy from an ISP tech support standpoint.
>Are we worried about losing design business? No.
>Why? Because even though WYSIWYG editors make it easy for anyone to build
>a web site, it doesn't give them the years of experience we have. We're
>confident enough in our services to allow our customers to do some of the
>work themselves, and to hire us for the "hard stuff".
>
>Software, like any tool, is only as good as the mechanic who's using it.
>Sure, MS FrontPage like any other authoring tool has it's quirks - but some
>of the comments I have been reading on this list suggest a couple of
>things. Either..
>
>A.) a total lack of knowledge of the product
>B.) Have only used FrontPage 1.1 or '97, haven't tried FP '98
>C.) or more likely an "I'm-cool-because-I'm-anti-microsoft-attitude".
>
>For example, and I'm paraphrasing... "the web pages don't work, or only
>look good on FrontPage servers". Huh? .html is .html. It doesn't look
>"different" on different web servers. It CAN look different in varying
>browers - just like any other pages created in any other authoring tools.
>
>Hells-bells (to quote Brent), I like notepad/textpad for editing .html too
>- but we'd never meet our customers deadlines, let alone turn enough profit
>to meet our payroll if every page we built was 100% virgin .html, created
>in an academic vacuum and hosted on a Linux server.
>
>So, the point is, if you know what the heck you're doing - FrontPage is a
>great editor. So is Homesite, Adobe Pagemill, Net Objects Fusion,
>Dreamweaver, etc. Don't let anyone call you a 'newbie' because you use
>FrontPage.
>
Well said Julie! Like you, I think FP is a great tool when you
know what you are doing with it. And it's a poor craftsman who
blames the tools.
BTW, there was nothing wrong with the earlier versions of FP,
even when it was a Vermeer product.
George
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