Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 14, 2004 06:09 AM
Another very important feature that Frontpage has, and is missing from all the other tools I've seen, is the "map" of the sites being built, that show each page as a box, with lines connecting the boxes
I hate this feature of Frontpage, though I have never used it. I hate it because you can only keep that navigation consistent when moving pages to another site by doing an export/import. Frontpage will NOT (I repeat, NOT) rebuild these navigations from scratch given a bunch of files, even if created with Frontpage.
I know this because I'm the webmaster for a community college. The faculty all thought they were cool by creating tons of pages on an external Frontpage-enabled site. When that site crashed without backups, most of them had copies of the HTML files. But they couldn't recreate the navigation. And without the navigation, they didn't understand how to link their pages together. They couldn't believe it when I told them that the links inside the page actually control what the page links to...
From what I've seen, not only is this feature available only in Frontpage, but also requires a Frontpage-enabled server...
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Re:Very important features
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 14, 2004 06:09 AMI hate this feature of Frontpage, though I have never used it. I hate it because you can only keep that navigation consistent when moving pages to another site by doing an export/import. Frontpage will NOT (I repeat, NOT) rebuild these navigations from scratch given a bunch of files, even if created with Frontpage.
I know this because I'm the webmaster for a community college. The faculty all thought they were cool by creating tons of pages on an external Frontpage-enabled site. When that site crashed without backups, most of them had copies of the HTML files. But they couldn't recreate the navigation. And without the navigation, they didn't understand how to link their pages together. They couldn't believe it when I told them that the links inside the page actually control what the page links to...
From what I've seen, not only is this feature available only in Frontpage, but also requires a Frontpage-enabled server...
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