Frontpage 2000 alternative?

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Is there a freeware FrontPage 2000 alternative?
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<http://www.snapfiles.com/get/stoneweb.html>

Besides standard functions you would expect from any HTML editor, Stone's
WebWriter includes a lot of advanced features to build and maintain small as
well as large websites. It offers a nice and professional interface with
project support, a file browser, script library, sitemap view and more.
Among the many features are customizable syntax coloring, tag sensitive
right click action, search and replace engine and more. Stone's WebWriter
also includes a Style Sheet editor and an Image Map editor as well as a
built in FTP uploader and a basixc HTML syntax checker. This is one of the
nicest free HTML editors you can find - loaded with features and very
professional.

Free for personal use. Requires free registration.

Regards
Thorkild Dalsgaard
 
A highly rated totally free replacement for FrontPage is 1st Page
2000. It can be found at: http://www.evrsoft.com/ A newer version is
pending.
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Well a new version has being pending for years :P

Besides 1st page 2000 while adequate as a HTML editor lacks a WYSIWYG
mode, something that Frontpage has.
 
A highly rated totally free replacement for FrontPage is 1st Page
2000. It can be found at: http://www.evrsoft.com/ A newer version is
pending.
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<giggles> Yeah...pending is a great word for that :) It has been
pending for almost 4 years now. Don't get me wrong, the proggie is good
(some bugs drive me nuts though) but I prefer HTML Kit. JMHO.

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El Gee

Did you hear the one about the dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac?
He would stay up late every night and wonder if there was a dog.
Remove yourhat to reply ... but it
may take a while. Best to go to www (dot) mistergeek (dot) com and
reply from there.
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<http://www.snapfiles.com/get/stoneweb.html>

Besides standard functions you would expect from any HTML editor,
Stone's WebWriter includes a lot of advanced features to build and
maintain small as well as large websites. It offers a nice and
professional interface with project support, a file browser, script
library, sitemap view and more. Among the many features are
customizable syntax coloring, tag sensitive right click action, search
and replace engine and more. Stone's WebWriter also includes a Style
Sheet editor and an Image Map editor as well as a built in FTP
uploader and a basixc HTML syntax checker. This is one of the nicest
free HTML editors you can find - loaded with features and very
professional.

Free for personal use. Requires free registration.

Regards
Thorkild Dalsgaard
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This does not allow you to edit existing HTML files thought, right? I
thought I had tried it and that was a deal killer for me. I could be
wrong.

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El Gee

Did you hear the one about the dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac?
He would stay up late every night and wonder if there was a dog.
Remove yourhat to reply ... but it
may take a while. Best to go to www (dot) mistergeek (dot) com and
reply from there.
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This does not allow you to edit existing HTML files thought, right? I
thought I had tried it and that was a deal killer for me. I could be
wrong.
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Do you mean html files previously compiled with Stone's Webwriter, or other
html files? Either way - I don't have it installed right now so can't
check, but I'm 99% sure it let me edit existing html files (both kinds).
 
Do you mean html files previously compiled with Stone's Webwriter, or
other html files? Either way - I don't have it installed right now so
can't check, but I'm 99% sure it let me edit existing html files (both
kinds).
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I was referring to files created in a txt editor or another html editor.
I was thinking that Webwriter only opens its proprietary format, but
can export to html. Maybe I am wrong. I can try it when I get
home...scratch that.. I am on holiday in 2 hours...I will do it later!

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El Gee

Did you hear the one about the dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac?
He would stay up late every night and wonder if there was a dog.
Remove yourhat to reply ... but it
may take a while. Best to go to www (dot) mistergeek (dot) com and
reply from there.
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I was referring to files created in a txt editor or another html editor.
I was thinking that Webwriter only opens its proprietary format, but
can export to html. Maybe I am wrong. I can try it when I get
home...scratch that.. I am on holiday in 2 hours...I will do it later!
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Well I couldn't have you wasting your holiday time ;-) - so I just
installed it again, and tried to open a file I'd written in 1st Page 2000.
No problems at all, lets me open, edit, save, etc. I also had a go with a
page written using Notepad - again, no problems.

I don't think there is any "proprietary format" for Webwriter - it does
insert header information to the effect that it's what you used to create
the page, but the html is all standard and it just saves as html, no export
needed. Are you sure you're thinking of the right program?
 
El Gee said:
I was referring to files created in a txt editor or another html editor.
I was thinking that Webwriter only opens its proprietary format, but
can export to html. Maybe I am wrong.
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Yes, you are wrong. Stone's Webwriter is an html (and css) editor, and
a very good one. It writes html an css files. It will also write txt
files, if you want to.
BTW, there is a v. 4, but only in Danish right now. I think the author
needs a volunteer to translate it into English.

Frank
 
L.Eggit said:
Is there a freeware FrontPage 2000 alternative?
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Any good html (and css editor), such as Stone's Webwriter. Frontpage
produces bad code. Most other wysiwyg editors do too. Anyone who wants
to make good webpages will have to learn some basic html and css. That
less difficult that some people seem to think and you don't have to
know everything there is to know about html and css to make a good
website. The content is still the most important thing about a
website.

Frank
 
Frank said:
Any good html (and css editor), such as Stone's Webwriter. Frontpage
produces bad code. Most other wysiwyg editors do too. Anyone who wants
to make good webpages will have to learn some basic html and css. That
less difficult that some people seem to think and you don't have to
know everything there is to know about html and css to make a good
website. The content is still the most important thing about a
website.

Frank
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WYSIWYG Editors are fine for initially doing a mock up or layout of a
design, but after that, if you want good code behind the design, you'll
have to go in by hand and fix the code. For this, basically any
WYSIWYG Editors will do. Use a text based editor after that though,
don't waste your time in the WYSIWYG Editor source editor. Well, I
should note thought that this just my opinion. Once in a while I do
this myself when the design I'm working on is a bit complicated.

-Garrett
 
Garrett said:
WYSIWYG Editors are fine for initially doing a mock up or layout of a
design, but after that, if you want good code behind the design,
you'll have to go in by hand and fix the code. For this, basically
any WYSIWYG Editors will do. Use a text based editor after that
though, don't waste your time in the WYSIWYG Editor source editor.
Well, I should note thought that this just my opinion. Once in a
while I do this myself when the design I'm working on is a bit
complicated.
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One talented webdesigner once said about WYSIWYG-editors: They have a habit
of adding unneeded tags and can ruin tuned html code and generally wreak
havoc on a design.

Rod
 
Any good html (and css editor), such as Stone's Webwriter. Frontpage
produces bad code. Most other wysiwyg editors do too. Anyone who wants
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FrontPage is pretty bad in the bloated code dept.

I dunno Frank. The more I play with some of the wysiwyg the more I'm convinced
that many can write quality code. I'm using EvrSoft 1st Page 2000 now, as we use
it in class. It writes xhtml strict easy and adds nothing that is unnecessary.

http://www.evrsoft.com/

to make good webpages will have to learn some basic html and css. That
less difficult that some people seem to think and you don't have to
know everything there is to know about html and css to make a good
website. The content is still the most important thing about a
website.
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Aye, knowing a bit of html helps greatly, but isn't completely necessary with
1st page. An amateur like me isn't going to be writing any earth shattering
pages with it, but for the hobbists this is a very nice one to get started with.
 
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