The Bottom Line
If you already know and love Microsoft FrontPage, you will love this upgrade, but beginners might want to think about another WYSIWYG editor.
Pros
- Familiar interface - like MS Word
- Great team management features
- Photo gallery, drawing tools, automatic content
Cons
- Installs more than just FrontPage automatically
- HTML written in the WYSIWYG editor can be poor
- Only 50 uses without "activation"
Description
- The familiar interface allows anyone who has used Word to create a Web page in minutes.
- The new Photo Gallery feature is a fun tool to create montage Web sites of your images easily.
- Key features like e-commerce and SharePoint Team Services make it more useful to small businesses.
Guide Review - Microsoft FrontPage 2002
FrontPage 2002 offers a lot of great features for the intermediate Web Developer, especially for those already familiar with FrontPage. New features like the Photo Gallery and the e-commerce tools allow you to create more dynamic and interesting Web pages faster than ever. Beginners might be attracted to FrontPage 2002, and in fact, in many ways it is a powerful editor for beginners. But unless you are willing to use only the tools that Microsoft provides, it is not a good tool for beginners, especially if you want to learn standards and other development skills like JavaScript and XML.
