Dreamweaver Vs FrontPage Review

By Mark Kostner

If you are serious about web designing, you will know that having the right equipment and tools makes the world of difference. It really does improve your designing skills if you know what software is best suited to making the best websites around.

The powerful Dreamweaver has now overtaken one piece of software that was great once upon a time. So, what is special about Dreamweaver, you may be asking? Well, the list is absolutely endless and although Front Page can still be useful, it doesn't compare to Dreamweaver.

The Comparison

Front page is a great application to use for web sites as it is generally quite easy, while Dreamweaver has been designed to make more advanced applications and websites. FrontPage does have some good advantages to it, such as being easy to add certain features, for example, forms, to web pages. The layout of the interface is also quite simple to understand. So it is great for beginners.

However, when you compare Front Page to Dreamweaver, there are quite a few downsides. One downside includes the code being not as clean as it is with Dreamweaver and it also lacks the interactive tools and other extra features that Dreamweaver boasts, too. Also pages created in front page can't be run on all web hosts, as pages created in front page sometimes require special server extensions.

As for Dreamweaver, the benefits compared to Front Page are quite brilliant. Although Dreamweaver is more expensive to buy and harder to learn, it is definitely worth it, as the possibilities are endless - allowing you to create whatever your imagination will let you.

The best part about Dreamweaver is that the code is clean and simple. This makes it easy when you need to edit the HTML and add extra code. You can easily set up Dreamweaver to communicate with a server and, with this, you can upload your web pages to the server with minimum fuss. The interface is also a bit more complex, compared to Front Page, but it offers so many more features and extras, it certainly makes up for it. If you want to make your web pages and applications more interactive, Dreamweaver can easily assist you in adding elements to your web pages with just a simple click of a button.

Learning Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver, as you may well know, is a huge piece of software capable of making highly complex and interactive websites, with server side technology and other great features. The problem with using Dreamweaver is that it can take a while to master all of the techniques and, therefore, it may be wise to find some tutorials on how to do this. I recommend doing a search on Google for Dreamweaver Tutorial or Dreamweaver Video Tutorial. You're bound to find plenty of good quality tutorials available.

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