Supposedly the latest version of frontpage generates much cleaner code
without all the MS specific stuff in it... I haven't tried it though.

On the other note, I got fed up with publisher and tried out adobe InDesign,
it's sooo much more powerful and very very easy to use! It creates
presentation quality PDF's with ease.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Pobursky [SMTP:piclist@MPS-DESIGN.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 1:17 PM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: [OT:] Photo presentation softtware
>
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 18:56:59 -0500, John Ferrell wrote:
> > Ouch!
> > Thanks for the info. I hope I have a better experience with the
> > upgrade than you predict. Dreamweaver was/is a little more than I can
> > justify at the moment. I will have to take my lumps with the
> > Microsoft stuff.
> >
> > I have had a lot less Microsoft trouble since I moved to XP Pro.
> > Also, I have been using MS Publisher 2000 for newsletters and
> > brochures for several years. I expect the Adobe stuff would be
> > better, but it too, is out of my reach.
> >
> > Thanks for the heads up, I will keep plugging away!
>
> Be forewarned that FrontPage generates some really cryptic and
> (sometimes) very IE-centric HTML code. Find a web site created with
> Frontpage and look at the source code. It makes it very hard to "tweak"
> HTML created with FrontPage after it's been generated. I personally
> would shoot for "browser neutral" web pages. I don't think I'd pay to
> have someone professionally develop web pages/sites for me if they used
> FrontPage.
>
> Dreamweaver is much better as a professional web development tool. I
> was in the same predicament as you once and I opted for FrontPage. I
> soon gave up on it as it did things it's own way (the Microsoft way)
> and I became frustrated. I wish I had saved my pennies and bought
> Dreamweaver first.
>
> Just a thought, but maybe you can find an older version of Dreamweaver
> cheap on ebay?
>
> Matt Pobursky
> Maximum Performance Systems
>
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