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Frontpage Or Dreamweaver

This article compares the pros and cons of FrontPage and Dreamweaver, two popular web development tools. It discusses their compatibility with MS Office products, ease of use, pricing, pre-designed templates, code cleanliness, platform limitations, server requirements, and advanced features. The article highlights how Dreamweaver offers more value for money, supports both Windows and Mac platforms, and provides extensive features for creating interactive web pages. Overall, Dreamweaver is recommended for its advanced capabilities and flexibility.

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Frontpage Or Dreamweaver

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  1. Frontpage Or Dreamweaver

  2. Frontpage pros • Compatibility with MS Office products, Easy to learn because of the familiar Microsoft menus and toolbars • Low price • extremely easy uploading to servers with FP extensions

  3. Front page pros • Comes equipped with many pre-designed web page templates. • Easy to add some features, such as some forms, to web pages.

  4. Front page pros • FrontPage has more "bells and whistles," Unless you add Fireworks or Flash with Dreamweaver.

  5. Front page cons • Doesn't produce code as cleanly as Dreamweaver. You'll hear the same thing over and over again: FrontPage writes messy codes. • Current edition is available for Windows only; Macintosh version is outdated and no longer being updated.

  6. Front page cons • Some features are specific to the Microsoft platform only (not visible on Mac). • Microsoft, creates its own set of standards rather than follow those 95% of the rest of the world uses.

  7. Front page cons • You will need FP server to publish. • FP extensions break easily. Forms often don't work, strange things display on your pages, etc. • You MUST use FP to upload; you cannot simply FTP your files as you can with other HTML generators. FP uploads in a special way that is necessary for FP to function properly.

  8. Front page cons • Lacks Dreamweaver's interactive development

  9. Example • Selecting a word or phrase in HTML or Normal mode does NOT maintain your selection between modes, • instead Frontpage selects the ENTIREparagraph in which your selection resides. Furthermore, selections made in Preview mode are lost upon switching to any other mode.

  10. Dreamweaver Pros • Dreamweaver is more expensive than FrontPage, but it is likewise far more advanced and able. • Dreamweaver offers much more value for money than FrontPage. Dreamweaver doesn't make all its best features only work on servers using Microsoft software

  11. Dreamweaver Pros • Available in identical versions for both Windows and Macintosh platforms • Supports development of your own template for pages in a website.

  12. Dreamweaver Pros • Relatively easy to set up for communicating with a server from office or home (Collaborative Tools) (check-in/check-out system)

  13. Dreamweaver Pros • Extensible - many extensions are available on the Macromedia website • The ability to easily integrate media files made with Flash or Shockwave, Powerful set of features for adding interactive elements to web pages.

  14. Dreamweaver Pros • WYSIWYG (but with direct HTML editing too) • Templates/Libraries/Style Sheets (consistency across pages and ease of updates) Frames/Layers. • Allows you to build up 'libraries' of 'objects' such as common script functions.

  15. Dreamweaver Pros Dreamweaver includes support for advanced features (such as Server Side Includes) as well as javascript and DHTML, Has several useful wizards to create mouseover effects, dynamic layers, and browser specific redirects (forwarding specified browsers to specified pages automatically).

  16. What is DHTML? • Dynamic HTML is simply HTML that can change even after a page has been loaded into a browser. • It's a concept that has been enabled by a number of technologies, including JavaScript, VBScript, the Document Object Model (DOM), Layers, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

  17. Dreamweaver Pros • Adding tables, forms or roll-over buttons (the button images that change when you move the mouse pointer over them) takes just seconds • Site Management (upload, download, synchronize...)

  18. Dreamweaver Pros Dreamweaver is a cross-platform solution You can publish your web site to Unix, Mac and widows servers

  19. Dreamweaver Pros • Has built-in tools to clean up HTML from other sources, such as Microsoft Word • Anyone who has exported a Microsoft Word file to HTML will be pleased with Dreamweaver's "Clean up Word HTML" command which removes Word's proprietary tags.

  20. Dreamweaver Pros • Dreamweaver allows you to change HTML code by hand as well, and doesn't change anything back that it disagrees with. • You don't have to use special 'WebBot' codes to prevent the editor from changing code it doesn't understand either (FrontPage is well known for that problem).

  21. A Case Study I tried out a number of WYSIWYG editors, like Netscape Gold, NetObjects Fusion and FrontPage to name a few. The results often bordered on shameful. One nasty quirk they all had in common was that they took my carefully crafted code and thoroughly mangled it on import. The obvious solution was, don't import.

  22. Very Important • It is not just a web page editor, it is designed to work with entire sites. • It will keep track of what you update between uploads, your links (making sure that broken links are not a problem), and perform many other tasks that make building and managing a website into as painless a business as possible.

  23. Dreamweaver Pros • Dreamweaver is not just for those who don't know HTML. • It is used by many professional webmasters because it allows for speedy web development.

  24. Dreamweaver Pros • In Front page If you're editing cgis or .conf files on a Unix server, the line feeds of the file MUST be Unix. • But Dreamweaver allows you to pick your choice of Unix, DOS or Mac line feeds.

  25. Dreamweaver Pros • Dreamweaver downloads files from sites as you need them, and includes dependent files. • FrontPage uses the 'web import wizard' by default select ALL the files of that web (even if they are HUGE .mpg files). You must then deselect one at a time the files you don't want downloaded to your local computer. Therefore it's more convenient for FrontPage users to edit files directly off of their mapped drive. This renders FrontPage's Views pane (with Reports, Navigation and Tasks tools) completely useless.

  26. Dreamweaver Pros • Dreamweaver includes O'Reilly's HTML reference as a floating palette. • Clicking on the <?> button in Dreamweaver brings up the reference for your current tag. • This is a very useful learning tool for novices and a great reference for experts.

  27. Dreamweaver Pros • Dreamweaver allows you to place pages side by side for comparison. • FrontPage does not. This is important for comparing how two pages look.

  28. Dreamweaver Pros • FrontPage users will have to enter HTML mode to edit JavaScript.

  29. Dreamweaver Pros • A Web page created in FrontPage has more HTML code and a bigger file size than the same page in Dreamweaver.

  30. Interactive web not easy • E-commerce along with Web applications for collecting user information and viewing data while online is probably one of the hottest topics going right now. Building user sites requires lots of time and resources, not to mention a rather steep knowledge of various HTML, ASP, and other code languages.

  31. Dreamweaver Pros • Macromedia has released at least a way for the less experienced novice to create a professional-looking web application with some really great tools.

  32. Dreamweaver Cons • More expensive than FrontPage • Dreamweaver has a steep learning curve at first • if you are used to other programs such as • Frontpage or other MS software. • However the help files are quite extensive. • "No back-end programming available for form submission".

  33. Both Have • Both programs include a spell checker, unlimited undo, easy buttons to add basic formatting (Bold, Italic, Center, Bullets, Headlines). • FrontPage includes support for Site Server objects which only work on Microsoft web servers, and OLE embedded objects (charts and graphs) that wouldn't be viewable on Unix or Mac clients.

  34. Both Have • Both programs include an upgrade path (Visual InterDev, or Dreamweaver UltraDev) for advanced users that need more powerful scripting tools.

  35. UltraDev • UltraDev is fully customizable; create objects and commands, modify menus and keyboard shortcuts, and write scripts extending behaviors, actions, and property inspectors. • UltraDev comes with a great tutorial to get started developing applications, creating great proficiency in no time.

  36. Price • Front page : $76.00 • Front Page Express: Free • Dreamweaver: $284 • Dreamweaver Educational: $99

  37. Tutorials Beginners http://www.coe.unco.edu/ET24z/dreamweaver/dreamweaver_tutorial.htm Intermediate & Advanced http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_dw.htm http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/Design/goals.htm Multimedia http://www.computer-training-software.com/dreamweaver-mx.htm

  38. Practice Assignments • http://www.si.umich.edu/StrategyCourse/content.html • http://www.umassd.edu/vrc/dwpractice4.html

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