Jim, we love FrontPage because we can easily create great looking HTML templates to be processed by VFP. I would encourage it's use for this reason. Specifically, you can just point and click to add HTML tables of any type of complexity. The best thing is that it is WYSIWIG or at least close WYSIWIG - you can see the results of the changes as they are changed as they will appear in real-time. All you have to do is look at the visual quality of some web sites to see that this is a real problem. IMO, you don't want to do a great deal of programming in your HTML interface anyway - that's what VFP is for. For creating HTML, you'll want the tool that can give you the best looking, most smoothly operating HTML, in the least amount of time. For us, FP is the ticket (although our apps will work with any HTML editor) ...
>A few weeks back a thread in this category discussed various tools for web page authoring.
>I understood that FrontPage was more than adequate for basic standard pages.
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>Having installed it with Office2000, and never having made a web page from scratch in my life (I have edited pages with notepad), I set out to make my first one. I chose to replicate a simple "application form" from a web app. I have worked on.
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>While I tried to read the Help in some detail, I couldn't even come up with the answer for "How do I create a Label field?" It told me about the Label form (control?) icon, but that was about all I could find.
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>Anyway, though I found it very counter-intuitive, I eventually had 4 labelled text boxes on the form. They looked reasonable in "Normal" view mode. When I checked the "Preview" mode I was shocked. Font sizes were different, a couple of lines 'wrapped' where they had been singletons before, things were not at all placed where they should have been.
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>My biggest concern was positioning things. I found an "absolute positioning" feature and used it for all visible parts on the page. Checking Preview, things were closer but still significantly off.
>After much detailed moving of things and too much back/forth between "Normal" and "Preview" I got them looking like I wanted But what I had in "Normal" view mode was severely overlapped bits that were very hard to work with.
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>What are the secrets to working successfully with this product???? (There has to be some or no one could rate this as being even adequate).
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>Thanks in advance
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>JimN