At 09:09 08/02/02 +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote:
1. Is Frontpage any good (never used it myself)? <snip> Horses for Courses. If the web site that they want to develop is small/simple and needs developing by someone who isn't slightly technical
On Thursday 07 February 2002 6:44 pm, Paul Munro wrote: then FrontPage will do the job nicely. Anything more than that and I would suggest saving a lot of heartache and buy a good HTML book.
I've never used FP myself - my experience is as an OU tutor who had to mark foundation-course (T171) assignments formatted as Web documents (in touch with hundreds of other such tutors). The combined feedback was that although FP was a particular problem, any so-called WYSIWYG tool was unreliable in the hands of novices. FP particularly introduced browser-dependencies, but they all tended to make pages screen resolution dependent. Graphics at absolute coordinates, which thus obscured the text on other size screens was not uncommon. I could only mark one submission by opening the file in a text editor and reading the code! It seemed that the site being simple wasn't sufficient, the approach to its design also had deliberately to be kept simple as well. Paul Munro said:
Personally I would use HTML/Dreamweaver/Flash etc but I have a relative who wants to put up a web site and was recommended FP by a Linux user in the USA
Without knowing what your relative wants to achieve with her/his site, Paul, I'd find it impossible to make _any_ worthwhile recommendation... Good networking, Roger Beaumont