At 07:02 PM 6/24/98 -0700, you wrote:
>The webmaster is a notorious bottleneck. However, from my experience, a site
>built outside of FP does not alway translate properly into FP. Code gets out
>of whack, especially trickier table nestings. If you start your site in FP
>(or at least import it into it), then get it setup the way you want it, then
>administer it using FP, the process is smoother.
For whatever reason, I've had really good luck importing sites into FP '98.
Actually, I've found it to be an awesome tool for the web site re-location
jobs we do for new customers. It saves a ton of time.
Fairly regularly we'll sign up a customer for web hosting who is very
nervous about moving their whole site over. Often they are new webmasters
taking over the job from someone else. They don't want to deal with site
downtime, an enormous upload to their new site with us, or having to deal
with broken links, etc. We offer to do the job for them as part of the set
up of their new hosting account. Using FrontPage's Explorer you can
literally suck an entire site up like a vacuum cleaner and drop it on a new
server. We can transplant a site in less than 5 minutes flat, check for
broken links, etc.
>As they say, "writers write". So I give them an environment where they don't
>have to worry about html, too. And they don't have to worry about learning
>FrontPage, either.
I can see your point, writing and programming/coding are two different
skill sets. The only comment I have is that it's not unreasonable to
expect a "writer" to know how to use MS Word or a comparable word processor
software. As one of the primary tech support people at my company I can
tell you first hand that if a user knows Word, we can walk them through the
essentials of FrontPage in less than 10 minutes over the phone.
>I think that if FP or another wysiwyg tool could write clean code, I would
>be more likely to use it, BUT I also find that in the time it takes to click
>through various dialog boxes, I could have just written a line of code and
>been on with it. Too much mouse action.
I totally agree on the extra code. Frankly that's the thing I dislike most
about FP. I'm hoping that enough of us FP users have griped about this
that Microsoft will clean up their .html in the next rev. In my own
experience, while the extra code is useless, it is fully functional and is
one of the trade-offs in using the product.
>Not true. Some software is better than other software. Given the choice,
>some people prefer one thing over another.
Now that you mention it, agreed. :)
>whoa,......you forgot to start with <rant>
Oops. Sorry, got carried away. Speaking of Microsoft - I'm on my way out
the door to go to the CompUSA/Windows '98 midnight sale! Yippee! No - I'm
not going to buy '98 (I'll order an NFR from our supplier in a few weeks
perhaps). Also, the $98 computer is a lost cause. I was at our local
CompUSA around 7pm CST tonight and there were about 50 people in line
already - some of whom had been there since 11am and they're only selling
10 per store. I'm going to pick up a couple of their other advertised
midnight specials - specifically a 15" monitor for $98 bucks. Wish me
luck. ;)
Best Regards,
Julie Silverman
Network Administrator, Internet Instructor, Professional Zamboni Driver
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