frontpage or dreamweaver

[Cliff Dude]

Notepad for small edits or small pages.

VS Web Developer 2005 for large web projects.

I only use it for the tag highlighting.

 

[spc-engineers]

Both are great. Dreamweaver should be top, however the layout and gui suck. Microsoft also has a successor to frontpage which works well too.

 

[Twinkie]

Dreamweaver is definitely the best! I have never used frontpage, but I suggest Dreamweaver over any text editor mostly for it's color coded text, design preview of your site and XHTML Validator. Dreamweaver is extreamly complicated for the new user and I don't suggest using it until you thoroughly understand webdesign.

 

[tcmstr134]

i use dreamweaver. i crossover to frontpage just for the server extensions if i feel like it would be easier than FTP. but dreamweaver and notepad++ should get you far.

 

[dwd2000]

Sorry, but I didn't vote. I don't use anything like that any more. I'm strictly a Notepad person now. I find it a lot easier in the long run. If anything, I would like to find a simple text editor that can colour code the codes, without all the other bells and whistles.

 

[tittat]

i started studying with frontpage,but now dreamweaver is my favourite..

 

[cursedpsp]

None of them - notepad ++ is the best - but... If i had used them i wold definitely go for dreamweaver because it supports PHP, ASP, ASP++, CSS, HTML and CGI

Frontpage's code is also very untidy

 

[callumacrae]

I voted dreamweaver, but I've never used it.

Frontpage is RUBBISH, it throws in loads of extra code, and is so un-XHTML strict it doesn't even use a doc-type!

Dreamweaver would have a hard time trying to be worse than frontpage

 

[Jords]

I voted for Frontpage but I haven't tried Dreamweaver yet.

 

[kbjradmin]

i use neither, but i have tried them both before in a web design class in school, and, if i had to pick one, i would have to go with dreamweaver.

 

[tnl2k7]

Neither

I voted for DW because FP sucks, but I'm happy writing my sites from scratch using gedit, all PHP / HTML / CSS is handwritten.

I've been making my sites this ways since I looked at how bad the markup from GUI editors was, I like knowing that I hand wrote everything.

 

[Sohail]

Definitely Dreamweaver, it's much more professional, it has all the features you need and it's needed by every good web designer!

FrontPage is for noobs!

 

[skvasistha]

there is no comparison.
frontpage is for intermediates.
dreasmweaver is for experts.

 

[kkenny]

Are you sure frontpage is for intermediates? More like beginners with a disgusting learnign curve. Dreamweaver is for everyone and has a good learning curve. The only downfall is it's price. But it's worth the bang for the buck in my opinion (Sounded wrong lol)

 

[Daniel S]

I have voted for dreamweaver as frontpage is link you are making a word document to put on a website lol. also it does not have half as many feature as what dreamweaver has.

 

[scottnj]

I find frontpage to be good for teaching yourself HTML, but for making really complexed sites, it isn't that good.

 

[kkenny]

I find frontpage to be good for teaching yourself HTML, but for making really complexed sites, it isn't that good.

Really? I find Dreamweaver easier to learn HTML, other than using Dreamweaver I find using W3 Schools or any website like that helping me. I don't know how could you use Frontpage to learn HTML because since Internet Explorer has pretty sucky HTML, and I'd expect Frontpage to have the same results

 

[LHVWB]

Dreamweaver wins easily, because of the below features.

• Easy to make websites with local and remote folders, by using the site manager, with its file mananger making life easier too.
• Produces good quality html.
• Allows you to edit css, javascript and php.
• Also has an inbuilt library for php functions and other languages as well.

Pity that is costs a fair bit of money though.

 

[zapperpost]

Dreamweaver is the better! Even if it wasn't, FrontPage was abandoned in 2003. Have you noticed that when Microsoft Office 2007 came out, Frontpage stayed at 2003? I don't like manually coding, and I'm still learning web languages. Both are WYSIWYG Web Builders, but I prefer Dreamweaver. If I was only worrying about WYSIWYG, then I would only use WYSIWYG Web Builder 5.

 

[rg001]

no comparison drmwvr is great