Please Recommend Frontpage Alternative For Creating Webpages

by Kenneth L

Posted: 16 years ago 21 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hi Guys,

I'm looking for an alternative to Frontpage to create my sales letters in. I've found Frontpage is making a mess of some of the code and I need something different.

I'm looking for a good WYSIWYG editor and don't mind paying decent money for it.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

Cheers,
Kenneth

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Maddi 16 years ago

Kompozer and NVu are great alternatives. Both free.

If you want to pay, Dreamviewer is probably the way to go.

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AllanCollins 16 years ago

Dreamweaver is pretty good.
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Steve Ranger 16 years ago

If you don't mind paying then the only option is Dreamweaver, it's what a lot of the professional design companies use when they're not hand coding websites.

Kompozer is just as good though and free
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dave147 16 years ago

I too would recommend the free Kompozer
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bgmacaw 16 years ago

Kompozer if you want free. If you want to code by hand, consider Notepad++

If you're used to the Microsoft way of doing things (Word, Excel, etc.) you'll like the relatively new Expression Web (4.0 was released this month, the original was released in 2006). It gets rid of the annoyances that plagued FrontPage and it has PHP support as well as support for MS technologies like .NET.

While Dreamweaver is a powerful tool for some, I find its UI to be obtuse.
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dndoseller 16 years ago

I am loving weebly lately. Super quick, lots of features.
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jaequery 16 years ago

stiqr.com is what you are looking for, which is a true wysiwyg, kind of like photoshop
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Kenneth L 16 years ago

Thanks for all the replies!

I have narrowed it down to a choice between Dreamweaver and Expression Web.

I'm edging towards Expression Web because of my familiarity with Word, Excel, etc.

Cheers,
Kenneth
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- Scott Henderson 16 years ago
  
  Dreamweaver all the way
  
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NewbiesDiary 16 years ago

Trellian web page is free - is pretty good too. But I am wondering why you don't go with WP? I find it sooooooo much easier all round.
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Kahunka 16 years ago

For sales letters??? Hands down XsitePro.

I have and have used Dream Weaver, Front Page and some of the free editors but for niche sites, sales letters and landing pages none beat the functionality and speed of XsitePro.
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- lonniewa2 16 years ago
  
  If you have the money go with xsitepro as it makes it real easy to create fast websites. Just remember that the included templates are ugly and you will need to learn to create you own.
  
  I was a frontpage guy but does not work on windows 7 but expression web is excellent if you are really good with CSS. If CSS is your thing as expression his built from the ground up to create standard CSS layout and formatting type website so it has a little bit of learning curve.
  
  Dreamweaver seems to be a little bit more flexible than expression web and there are more tutorials on how to use it and that Is why I use dreamwever. If not for that and if you are really good with CSS then go with expression web as I have found as for as capabilities it has caught up with dreamweaver and the look and feel is better.
  
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-Jericho- 16 years ago

Notepad++ for the win.

Hand coding is always best. I gave up a long time ago on programs. It's much more efficient IMO to just hand write it. I usually have a template that I work off of and just design it from there.
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Lloyd Buchinski 16 years ago

Expression web is the best piece of MS software I've used in a long time. It has a heavy emphasis on valid code, which is an amazing turn around for MS.

If I'm having a problem with a page sometimes I'll run it through a validator. Last time that didn't help, got about 4 comments that didn't directly point to the problem. Put the page in EW and the problem had a light highlight with a little note on hover that commented on why that part of the code was a problem.

One part of it, Superpreview, is the best thing I have ever used to beat a site into shape for IE 6. (If anyone else still does that)

I do most of my stuff in notepad++ but EW just keeps coming in handy for one thing or another.
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jikanv 16 years ago

Serif WebPlus is a good one and you can do anything you want with it. Very flexible once you figure it out.
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reynoldscorb 16 years ago

I also recommend Dreamweaver. I don't recommend the $300 though!

Go to the Adobe website and get the 30 day free trial. That way you can mess around with it for a while before you have to do anything with it.
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raj5 16 years ago

As people have mentioned, I recommend Dreamweaver.
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LB 16 years ago

Dreamweaver is pretty much the standard, it's really all I use and creates very clean code, style sheets, etc.
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- netkid 16 years ago
  
  My vote is for Komposer. It's downright quick and gets the job done.
  
  Tried Expression Web which is the last version of FrontPage. Everytime I used EW I had problems with coding. It still has to use Front Page extensions inside my webhost.
  
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  Lloyd Buchinski 16 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by netkid
  
  Everytime I used EW I had problems with coding. It still has to use Front Page extensions inside my webhost.
  
  It can work with FP extensions but you don't have to use them (!) That would get a big 'Omigod!'
  
  I wouldn't go near them personally. Maybe it is the way your host is set up? Most hosts don't even make them available now.
  
  I did talk to a windows host who said he has seen just a few sites that will fall apart if they don't have the extensions, but usually no problems redoing the site without them.
  
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  behnk01 16 years ago
  
  da dreamweaver
  
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