Comments on: Blogging takes yet another victim: Microsoft kills FrontPage!

By: Richard East

Richard East — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:16:46 +0000

MS was not innovating this product at all, and during the past several years, many better solutions have come out, even for the beginner. This is a very good thing.

By: MaverickKK

MaverickKK — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:05:38 +0000

Yahooooo

By: Abraham

Abraham — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:38:02 +0000

a dead cert ,

By: hacker not cracker

hacker not cracker — Fri, 18 May 2007 22:43:00 +0000

I remember when I first discovered web design with front page. Despite my current disdain for the program, I have to say, it helped put web design in the hands of normal ordinary people. Sorry Frontpage, a program can only do so much in its lifetime!

By: Front Page 03 Tips

Front Page 03 Tips — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:41:59 +0000

I really sorry to hear that Microsoft is closing Front Page. I did use this great Web Design Tool for about 4 years and I must say that this is really good tool.

By: bobi

bobi — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:16:24 +0000

Fab, how do you REALLY feel about the gay blogger templates? LOL. I loved frontpage for its ease of use. I sell jewelry and was able to produce a workable website with FP without being too much of a geek. I have downloaded the trial version and taken some of the Expression Web video tutorials and my head is spinning. I’ll probably be able to figure it out eventually, but what a bummer having to make the change.

By: Fab

Fab — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 14:58:46 +0000

Front page was one of the best and easiest html editors out their. Morons who use those gay blogger templates have no clue what they are talking about. Eliminating front page just means more people will have the same gay style pages

By: Neale

Neale — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:59:39 +0000

Front page was a great intro to the world of webpages, and a great learning tool. now its going no big deal it was allready outdated & geting used less & less and easily replaceable by plenty of good products allready available many for free.

By: miamiguy

miamiguy — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:25:32 +0000

#37 – I believe it. One of my biggest clients, a VERY large multi-national communications co, does the same thing with their intranet and it has worked perfectly (with easy updating) for years with little or no training cost. This is a perfect example of a use for FP that has nothing to do with blogs or soccer moms. You hit the nail on the head about being careful with product lock-in.

By: corporate user

corporate user — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:36:40 +0000

Believe it or not my current employer uses FrontPage to publish their Intranet. There is no centralized Intranet development. It is all done by people using FrontPage 2000 as part of their normal job responsibilities.

I’m guessing the Expression tool will be used eventually, but there is no time frame. The company uses Win2000 so Expression isn’t even an option now. Training costs will be crazy. I have no idea how Expression will handle legacy FrontPage2000 extensions and border features.

I’ve warned customers not to rely on MS product lock-in and here is an example of its financial costs. Yet, companies continue to go with the lock-in.

By: airwhale

airwhale — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:55:36 +0000

Oh happy day!

Just make sure to put a wooden stake through the beast’s evil, black heart. If anyone deserves eternal damnation, it surely is FrontPage.

By: Andrea Parascandalo

Andrea Parascandalo — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 16:48:59 +0000

well front page is out but microsoft is introducing a new programe called Microsoft Expression Web designer altough right now it is beta tested

By: pedro

pedro — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:24:04 +0000

#33 That’s what I started using to code html back in the hay-day.

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 00:08:27 +0000

#15 and #16, Notepad++ when I’m feeling bold enough to try to code a page. Everybody’s gotta start somewhere. I’m trying to learn how to be a “neat” coder per my husband’s request and the WYSIWYG sucks at neatness I’ve noticed. Anyways.

By: Ionut

Ionut — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 17:50:06 +0000

This is not new. Microsoft reported that FrontPage is about to be discontinued in February.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/02/say-goodbye-to-frontpage-and-jeeves.html