[thelist] FrontPage 2000 - opinions?

[Dulcie Meatheringham]

Hi John,

We use FrontPage 2000, and have had people of various technical abilities
adding and editing content.

The biggest problem is from cutting and pasting directly from Word docs into
FP: it makes a gigantic mess of the code.  I've found that if you open the
Word doc *in* FP (using: right-click>open with>Front Page) you get lovely
clean (or clean-able, with the Remove Formatting command) code in a new .htm
document that you can copy/paste into your template.  FP makes it pretty
easy to apply styles, if your users are used to using them in Word already.

This adds multiple steps, of course, so if you're not comfortable with that
I'd give FP a pass.

Dulcie.
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> Hi all,
>
> Whilst I'm a BBEdit/PHP/Dreamweaver-on-Mac kind of a guy, a school
> I'm doing a site for want to use Front Page 2000 so the secretaries
> can create/convert content, most likely from Word docs.
>
> I've played around a little in SoftWindows and it doesn't seem too
> bad: code's clean - for a M$ product anyhow - understands style
> sheets etc.
>
> Since it appears to lack templates/libraries, I'll probably use
> includes, now I've found my host can support them.
>
> What should I watch out for?  Am I shooting myself in the foot?
> Should I make them buy something else?
>
> Your thoughts?
>
> John.
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