Dreamweaver MX or Frontpage 2002?

[mrwilhelm]

Quick question...

I know Dreamweaver is supposed to be the best HTML editor on the planet, but considering I already own Frontpage as part of my Office XP suite, I was wondering if most of you would consider the gap between the two apps wide enough to justify the extra purchase?

Thanks...

[JungleMan1]

If you can afford the Dreamweaver, get it...it's amazing software. I think it's a lot better than FrontPage.

[+Daemon+]

get dream weaver, front page is crap. it will put things in your html you dont need. makes your code very crappy and blowded.. oh wait just like windows it self

[Ryuutsume]

Dreamweaver MX is definitely the best of the best. Front Page is not very good. It's "useable" but not good.

[Six Eyed Smily]

better yet, get an html book

dreamweaver is good, but for serious site design it is still to buggy to handle complex table layouts reliably, and tends to create pages that only really work in internet explorer or netscape, not both, so you end up doing everything twice :/

its a good tool to quickly generate the basis for a page, but you still need good html skills for it to work properly.

having said that, i havent got round to upgrading to the mx version yet, so that may have fewer bugs and so require less html. i dont know.

[Radical Dreamer]

For a beginner I suggest frontpage, yes it puts some xtra code in, but its TEXT you will live. Dreamweaver without a doubt supports more stuff

[Thunderwind]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Six Eyed Smily:
<strong>better yet, get an html book

</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This is the best advise yet. All WYSIWYG put crap code in, the one thing I hate about dream weaver is if you creat perfectly organized page using HTML only, then open and save it in dreamweaver, Dreamweaver smashes everything togheter, makin it almost unreadable.

Just learn your html, and you will be happier in the end. Gives you endles amount of control that no WYSIWYG can offer.

The only thing I guess I like about any WYSIWYG is that it is quicker when it comes to forms.

[DANIMAL]

Yup I recently canned Fp for anythign new. and started Using Dreamweaver. it took a littel bit to change but it wasnt to hard.

Frontpage was easy yeas but there were a few thigns I didnt like adn thigns that took to long to do when dreamweaver is a one click deal.
Plus if you get MX version you get flash and a decent image editor along with the package.

Well worth the extra $$$


I stilluse FP for certain things SO I havent canned it completly ...yet...