RE:[2] [cobalt-users] FTP - FrontPage Paths

[elmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, RaQ3 wrote:

} Even more if you try to insert some foreign code like php. Try it with
} FP or ask someone who tried it ;-)

	I do this kind of thing all the time - no problem at all.
Fact is, FrontPage 2000 includes a slightly trimmed down version of
their $595.00 Visual Studio development environment which was pretty
much designed from the get-go for making it easy as pie to rapidly
whip out all kinds of clean fast running code.

	The only thing wrong with FrontPage is that it is percieved
as a 'beginners' tool and everyone on the planet that thinks they're
a site designer trashes it while claiming their use of a different
product makes them a more professional/capable designer.

	html is html... whether written in vi, notepad, dreamweaver
or FrontPage, it's still HTML and any tool in which HTML can be
written or generated can produce the same results as any of the
other tools can.

	FrontPage rocks. The next time you have a page loaded in the
WYSWYG editor, click "tools", "macro" then select select "Microsoft
Script Editor". If you didn't install it you should... with it you
can easily and quickly include PHP, custom Java script  and more
in FrontPage sites - and you can do so without a hitch. And for
writting HTML the old fashioned way, Visual Studio is the cat's meow
- one can almost istantly switch between a code view and a page view
and while there a plenty of handy helpers available, they're far
enough out of the way for the purist in me... and FrontPage will
happily manage the page and allow you to work it in the GUI without
busting your code.

	Pop a few bucks for Office Power's "Site Tagger" add-on and
actually use it and before long your FrontPage sites will start
finding their way to the top of the search engine listings and
they'll do so without your breaking a sweat.

	I started back when html had to be written by hand. I've
only had a Windows powered machine here for about a year. I
orginally bought FrontPage 2000 because I manage and maintain a
whole lot of web sites. I figured that if I just import the pages I
made with my favorite HTML editor (Xemacs) that I could use
FrontPage's site management tools to make my life easier.

	Then I found out what FrontPage could do while I was
figuring out ways to try and make it do what I bought it to do. For
longest time I stayed in the closet, never publically admitting that
I use FrontPage...

	Now I'm successful enough to not be bothered by the taunts
and the few clients I loose because they happen to think FrontPage
is a toy.

	The look and feel was concieved by someone else. I didn't do
the graphics for the left side menu either, but I did put it all
together in FrontPage and virtually all the graphics other than
those used on the left side menu were done the free graphics tool
that comes with it. You'll need a high speed connection - that was
the call. But here's an example of what one can do with FrontPage:

	http://www.winkmartindale.com/

	FrontPage rocks.

	Peace be with you,

	Brent

	Brent Sims
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