Question on FrontPage 98 (gasp!)

[Jeff Chapman]

Hello all - This is my first time posting on this newsgroup.
I've posted on the MS PPT newsgroup quite a bit before,
but I have a question on FrontPage.

I recently purchased a used copy of FrontPage 98 for a pittance.
I wanted a tool that would help me compose basic web sites,
just HTML and JS, no particularly fancy or extravagant
layouts or anything, probably no need to create ASP pages or
anything else. I didn't have the money to buy any of the
later versions of FP.

I've used FrontPage 2003 beta before, and it seemed to work
all right for most of my web page authoring needs, with a
few funny little quirks here and there.
I looked through the spec table on the MS web site on FP98,
and it seemed like most of what I needed was there.
My question is, is there anything in FrontPage 98 that I should
be aware of - any specific issues, software quirks, etc. ?
Or is it still an effective tool to use for general web page authoring?

One concern is that since it's a somewhat antiquated version,
it might have trouble creating good pages compatible with
the later versions of Netscape and IE (6.0 and above).
Up to what browser version can FP98 support?

Thanks for all your help in advance, and looking forward to your replies.

Regards,

Jeff Chapman
Nagoya, Japan
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

It's not a matter of what the software supports, regardless of the version
of FP. It's how the author designs the site.
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Tom Pepper Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/default.mspx
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| Hello all - This is my first time posting on this newsgroup.
| I've posted on the MS PPT newsgroup quite a bit before,
| but I have a question on FrontPage.
|
| I recently purchased a used copy of FrontPage 98 for a pittance.
| I wanted a tool that would help me compose basic web sites,
| just HTML and JS, no particularly fancy or extravagant
| layouts or anything, probably no need to create ASP pages or
| anything else. I didn't have the money to buy any of the
| later versions of FP.
|
| I've used FrontPage 2003 beta before, and it seemed to work
| all right for most of my web page authoring needs, with a
| few funny little quirks here and there.
| I looked through the spec table on the MS web site on FP98,
| and it seemed like most of what I needed was there.
| My question is, is there anything in FrontPage 98 that I should
| be aware of - any specific issues, software quirks, etc. ?
| Or is it still an effective tool to use for general web page authoring?
|
| One concern is that since it's a somewhat antiquated version,
| it might have trouble creating good pages compatible with
| the later versions of Netscape and IE (6.0 and above).
| Up to what browser version can FP98 support?
|
| Thanks for all your help in advance, and looking forward to your replies.
|
| Regards,
|
| Jeff Chapman
| Nagoya, Japan
| (e-mail address removed)

 

[Jeff Chapman]

Ah, that seems like a reasonable answer...
Do you mean to say that I should be able to create a decent
site, if I design it well, using FrontPage 98?
Content over tool?
I guess that if I go into the source code, the editor is not such a
big issue, provided that it doesn't constantly make drastic changes to the
alterations I would make by hand in my source code, with its own
interpretation of what the code should look like.
If I edit the HTML source myself, will FP98 readjust it on its own,
or can I have control over that?

I was curious if there were any particular issues with the software
that have been corrected in later versions.
And I was also curious as to whether I can make pages compatible with
later versions of IE/NN using this version of FP.

Thanks,

Jeff Chapman

 

[Steve Easton]

Here is a site created entirely
using FP98 on a Windows 95 machine.
http://www.95isalive.com/
hth

 

[Jeff Chapman]

Thanks Steve. That's your site?
Seems clean and easy to operate.
Do you know of any other examples of good sites that were
created in FP98?