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 - 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. Rating:  - pretty powerfulGiven my limited knowledge of computer science and programming i felt FrontPage was a a really big help. I was able to get a website up and running in about 2 weeks which i think is pretty good all things considering. I didn't realize though that Frontpage isn't the cureall for making a website really. Primarily only for WEB DESIGN i.e. if you want to make a website with E-commerce and query searches of an inventory database and the like, you're gonna need to bring in the professional programmers in any event to program in ASP or PHP. But as far as Web Design goes Frontpage can take a novice a long way. Rating:  - worth the investmentA great product. Make sure you get a separate instruction manual. The one that is included is not enough. Make sure you do the tutorial before you start your own website. This was a relatively easy program to follow and allowed my, a person that is not real computer savvy, to create a wonderful and usable website. The pictures help greatly in the understanding of the program. Also, items to be cautious of, or areas of help are pointed out in the margins. I read the manual thorougly before starting. Rating: - Great software.I love Microsoft Office software and this title is no exception. It's very simple to use and great features!
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