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From: "Grote, Dale" <dagrote@email.uncc.edu>
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Dr. Rouke:

Now you've done it! You've provoked me ;-) There are only a few things I
believe in, and MS FrontPage is one of them. Let me count (some of) the
WAIS.

(1) If your ISP has the extensions, FP allows you to edit on-site, without
having to publish or FTP anything. It's as simple as editing and saving in a
word processing program, and just as immediate.

(2) Even if you have to edit off-site and publish later, you can toggle an
option to publish only the pages you've changed. I used to have an 800+ page
FP web site and found I could publish my work via a dial-up 56K much much
faster than ten minutes.

(3) The extensions provide additional server-side functionality that really
simplifies page construction. One I use all the time is the "Include Page"
webot. It lets you contruct pages from several smaller pages. This makes
complicated pages incredibly easy to manage.

(4) You can get to the code if you have to clean up a few things.

(5) FP has a preview option for whatever browser you have on your machine: I
check NS and IE while creating a new page design. (If users of other
browsers don't have IE or NS on their machines, they deserve their fate,
IMO.)

(6) FP has an insert dialog box for scripts and codes that aren't standard
HTML. (Being just a humble parser of verbs and decliner of nouns, I use only
JScript for some insignificant, yet pleasing effects.)

(7) FP comes bundled with the photo editor "Image Composer" that's nicely
integrated with the HTML editor and does just about everything an amateur
like me needs.

(8) FP is a site manager, not just a page writer: i.e. inter alia, it
recalculates per se ipsum internal links when you move things around. This
feature alone has saved me an estimated three lifetimes.

(9) It's an MS product; it's not going to be an orphan in three years.

(10) It works a lot like Word, so knowing one helps you learn the other.

My web sites are sibling offspring of FP:

www.uncc.edu/lbst
www.uncc.edu/classics

I'm proud of them!

Dale
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