FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997)

Re:FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997) by scarface74 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @07:39AM (#17967453)

I love how they laid it on the line. “If you want to do web development, you need to actually learn web technology”

Now if someone would tell web developers that if you want to write desktop/mobile apps, you need to learn native frameworks.....

What are newer FrontPage alternatives?

The Internet and the web have changed drastically since the days when FrontPage was a very common website editor. Almost every modern website editor these days will require you to have some basic understanding of the concepts of HTML, and CSS coding, instead of the drag and drop design that FrontPage used.

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Re:FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997) by rustcharm on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @03:55PM (#17972549)

Don't forget the first program in this space: Adobe Pagemill.

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Re:FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997) by berkut on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @06:01PM (#17973849)

Wasn't HoTMetaL (Pro) the first actually released (in 1994)? Pagemill was in beta until 1995...

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Re:FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997) by scarface74 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @06:05PM (#17973883)

Claris Home Page looks like it also came out in 1994.

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Re:FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997) by tgtweak on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @08:56AM (#17968085)

Many, many "drag and drop" web based alternatives. Webflow,ukit, even Adobe edge on the desktop.

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Re:FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997) by stantaylor on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:12AM (#17968254)

NetObjects Fusion! In 1996-7, I worked on AT&T's small business web hosting service, and it supported FrontPage and NetObjects Fusion.

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Re:FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997) by stevenicr on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @10:19PM (#17975427)

I still have sites live that were built with NetObjects fusion. Still the best design / editor I've ever used, and I've tried so many.

I recently found this thing called 'pinegrove editor' (I think that's' what it's called. looks the closest to something like it and modern.

maybe blue griffon.

Sadly drop and drop widgets with wordpress themes is probably the most widely used that is similar.

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Re:FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997) by tonyedgecombe on Thursday September 13, 2018 @08:09AM (#17977937)

Pinegrow: https://pinegrow.com

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Re:FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997) by stevenicr on Thursday September 13, 2018 @12:43PM (#17980050)

Yes, that's the one I was thinking about / been looking at tonyedgecombe, thanks!

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Re:FrontPage 98: Elegant and Exquisite (1997) by copperx on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @12:27PM (#17970390)

NetObjects was brilliant, and sometimes miss it when I'm deep in CSS insanity.

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