February 17th, 2006
Microsoft to Kill Off FrontPage With Office 2007 Release
By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
Prediction: Not a lot of tears are going to be shed over this one. Personally, I have to say I experienced a demi-pang over the news, because I started messing around with HTML with Microsoft FrontPage and learned the various quirks. Sometimes habit is harder to break - hello IE users? I also read a great book long time ago by the founder of Front Page and how he basically sold it to Microsoft and then got shafted. (No surprise there as well.)
Microsoft will close the book on its FrontPage Web-design program with the release of Office 2007, formerly known as Office 12, late this year. Microsoft acquired FrontPage in the mid-1990s, and it soon outdistanced Adobe’s PageMill and other popular low-cost what-you-see-is-what-you-get Web-creation tools.
FrontPage does serve as the foundation for two different Web-design programs: SharePoint Designer 2007, which is intended for organizations using the SharePoint server-based Web-development platform; and Expression Web Designer, which appears to be outside of the Office application family (it isn’t included in any of the Office 2007 bundles, nor is it listed as a standalone Office app the way Project and Visio have been and will continue to be in the new release). Source: PC World
We Say: Can Office 2007 get any more complicated? Ther eare so many versions and moving parts, we can’t even begin to keep them straight. Maybe it;s time to look at Open Office again?
Rob says:
Great, now we’ll just see more websites exported from Microsoft Word instead of FrontPage.
February 17th, 2006 at 10:35 am
deww says:
Oh wow, Rob paints a grim picture.
In any case, what are some good WYSIWYG editors out there now that are low cost?
February 17th, 2006 at 11:15 am
Doug Felteau says:
I thought users had already killed off Frontpage…
February 17th, 2006 at 11:34 am
Rob says:
deww: Nvu (nvu.org, I think) is Open Source, and based on the Mozilla suite’s editor. Supposed to be pretty good, but I’m not up on the WYSIWYG scene…
February 17th, 2006 at 12:02 pm
Shadow says:
Personally, I still do most of my editing in notepad(no laughs now kids). Its simple and nothing beats the control you have over your code. From time to time I like jumping into First page 2006 by evrsoft. Is completely free, with no spyware as far as I know.
1st Page
February 17th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
Alex says:
I used Nvu (www.nvu.com), it is free and enough for my needs.
Mozilla also has a html editor.
February 17th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
Jeff says:
God thats great! Now I hope Dreamweaver goes away. I like Go Live, but I cant stand other companies that use WYSISUG crap.
Come check us out!! www.2brothersdesign.com
J.
February 17th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Microsoft Junkie says:
I will be dragged kicking and screaming into Dreamweaver I guess.
What a tease that Bill Gates is !!!
February 19th, 2006 at 6:47 am
Diane says:
Thank God, FP is D-E-A-D !! I will shed NO tears here, it produces crappy code and IE-only pages. Exports from Word is even worse.
Dreamweaver is the industry standard and is not going anywhere.. with any luck Adobe will kill GoLive with its acquisition of Macromedia. GoLive is ok.. but limited in many ways.
February 20th, 2006 at 6:48 am
badri says:
Well I am sad that FP is dead, there is no other program cheap enough for all the normal people to use as a web editor for their personal sites. Since i work at a university FP worked VERY VERY well for all the faculty members to maintain personal site, with forms, surveys, DBs etc. Now my only solutions are CMS (lock-in) or Dreamweaver ($$$)….
February 25th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
Eric says:
NEW SharePoint Book should be helpful!
SharePoint 2003 Advanced Concepts: Site Definitions, Custom Templates, and Global Customizations
http://www.awprofessional.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0321336615&rl=1
· By Jason Nadrowski, Stacy Draper.
· Published by Addison Wesley Professional.
· Series: Microsoft Windows Server System Series.
In SharePoint 2003 Advanced Concepts, two world-class SharePoint consultants show how to make SharePoint “jump through hoops” for you—and do exactly what you want.
Jason Nadrowski and Stacy Draper have built several of the world’s largest SharePoint implementations for a number of Fortune 50 enterprise customers. Now, drawing on their extraordinary “in the trenches” experience, they present solutions, techniques, and examples you simply won’t find anywhere else.
SharePoint 2003 Advanced Concepts addresses every facet of SharePoint customization, from site templates and definitions to document libraries and custom properties. The authors cover both Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and illuminate SharePoint’s interactions with other technologies—helping you troubleshoot problems far more effectively.
Next time you encounter a tough SharePoint development or administration challenge, don’t waste time: get your proven solution right here, in SharePoint 2003 Advanced Concepts.
· Construct more powerful site and list templates
· Control how SharePoint uses ghosted and unghosted pages
· Use custom site definitions to gain finer control over your site
· Build list definitions with custom metadata, views, and forms
· Troubleshoot WEBTEMP, ONET.XML, SCHEMA.XML, SharePoint databases, and their interactions
· Create custom property types to extend SharePoint’s functionality
· Integrate with other systems and SharePoint sites so that you can use their information more effectively
· Change themes and edit Help, one step at a time
· Customize email alerts and system notifications
· Extend the capabilities of document libraries
· Control document display and behavior based on extensions
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Custom Templates
Chapter 2 Site Definitions
Chapter 3 Site Definitions: Exploring List Definitions
Chapter 4 Customizing and Implementing Property Types in Windows SharePoint Services
Chapter 5 Global Customizations
Appendix Custom_JS.aspx
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