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 - Easy to use for building websites, but two caveats (read on)Frontpage 2003 is a great, easy-to-use WYSIWYG web builder. Most hosting companies support Frontpage extensions, a set of web robots to help you build a dynamic site, similar to DHTML. Two warnings, though: 1) This full version is too expensive; you may qualify to buy the half-priced Academic Version (search for "frontpage 2003 academic" on Amazon); 2) More important, though, Frontpage is being discontinued as a product altogether and will be replaced by Office SharePoint Designer (for businesses) and Expression Web (for everyone else). You can download the latter for free (for now, at least) on MSFT's website. Rating:  - Frontpage is Great!!Frontpage 2003 is a more enhanced version than its previous editions, works well all Microsoft operating systems, and has hands free HTML..Great!! Rating: - Great product, fast shipping~Great product, great communication! Thank you! I love it! Great price! Rating:  - I can't publish my site anywhere!I am not a 'professional,' but figured out how to build a website with this program, which I bought thinking that it was going to help me produce more professional-looking websites/pages, and I invested a bunch of other money in how-to books I'd ordered here, and lo and behold, the server with which I have a website I maintain for my city gov't does NOT support any sites made with this program, and then I find that NEITHER DOES YAHOO where I have my personal site and have been promoting to the city to move their official website to!!! I've apparently wasted a lot of money and had NO CLUE this would happen when I finally put a website together with this program. I never would have imagined Yahoo would not support the most current page builders, but it could be they want to force people to use their wizards. WHY would Microsoft not have a patch available or something to fix this problem so this program can be used for more than just my entertainment spending hours and hours trying to learn it and build something, then find out it was for NOTHING??? Of course, both the server with the city website and Yahoo work with versions up to 2002....but I can't invest another over-$100 for the old version now just for that. Yeah, it's great....made a pretty page, but only I can see it. If I could publish with it, I wouldn't have just given it one star here. Rating:  - Photo support is horribleI gave this a 2nd star for a support call ms provided. If you do have a frontpage server, and have it set "on", it had some advantages over ftp. I bought it for use on our family website which is mainly pictures. I've used 6-8 programs for creating galleries over the years. I think a perl script using Linux' mogrify worked best. This works worst! The free ones w/ the digital cameras beat it. Frontpage is missing the most fundamental piece to view photos- A next/previous button. You can choose from several thumbnail displays including a cool mosaic/colage type thing. Once you expand it, you must remember the shot you were on, back up, and then click on the next one! Unbelievable. I know what I need for handling photos efficiently. Flicr has it- cross-tab indexing of the same photo. I think picassa is close and getting closer. This wasn't worth the cost of Picassa- FREE.
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