Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: another question from you neighbourhood noob

sir_pyke opened this issue on Jan 04, 2002 ยท 17 posts


ronknights posted Sat, 05 January 2002 at 10:29 AM

Attached Link: http://www.paulsfrontpagethemes.com/

Both Dreamweaver and FrontPage are "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) packages. That means you don't need to know HTML code to do the job. Both programs, to some extent, keep track of any changes you make, and update your site to reflect those changes. FrontPage seems to have the edge when it comes to updating your work on the actual web site itself (as opposed to the copy of the web site on your own computer.) FrontPage will automatically publish only the changed pages, and update all the appropriate stuff on the remote web site. Dreamweaver calls their process "putting" the web site. If you want to be sure to update all your changes, you need to searh for the synchronize command, and that is a bit clunky when compared to FrontPage. FrontPage is an easier to use program, which also has many advanced features that you can use if you wish. There are some more advanced features of FrontPage, such as your own guestbook, etc, that would require a web server that supports those advanced FrontPage extensions. Most of us won't use those extra features, so most web site hosts will work fine with FrontPage, including freebie ones. Dreamweaver is billed as more geared toward experts. Dreamweaver does less of the housekeeping chores for you. However, in some areas Dreamweaver seems to make things easier. One great thing about FrontPage is "themes." Themes give your web site the look and feel that you choose. FrontPage will automatically make any banners, navigation buttons, etc, to go along with the theme you want. You can decide to have text links, buttons, etc. Just click on something to make your choice. FrontPage comes with many themes, and you can get many other themes for free online. I've provided a link to Pauls FrontPage Themes. I consider this to be one of the better sites dealing with FrontPage Themes. I bought a few of them myself, and yearn to use them again. With Dreamweaver, you will need to work on your own navigational buttons, banners, etc.... That is a lot of work, and it is harder to come up with a good uniform look to your site. It is hard to capsulize all this in a relatively short message. Hopefully some of this information helps you to begin making a determination. Now let's look at price. The last I knew Dreamweaver was much more expensive than FrontPage. Maybe $100-$200 more?! I haven't priced either program recently. I've been fortunate enough to have both Dreamweaver and FrontPage. I really miss some of the ease of use that FrontPage offers.