L3onheart Posted February 8, 2002 Share Posted February 8, 2002 Does anyone know how to avoid FP from inserting those pesky codes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +.Aaron Subscriber¹ Posted February 9, 2002 Subscriber¹ Share Posted February 9, 2002 Use Dreamweaver by Macromedia. It is sooo much easier to use and is a lot better than Frontpage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 L3onheart Posted February 9, 2002 Author Share Posted February 9, 2002 That is not what I asked azerchXP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 mortensen Posted February 9, 2002 Share Posted February 9, 2002 Use Dreamweaver by Macromedia. LOL... after spending ?100 on FrontPage XP no-one would really want to go out and spend another ?100+ on yet another program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 L3onheart Posted February 9, 2002 Author Share Posted February 9, 2002 Er... "spend"?... :D :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 hurting101 Posted February 9, 2002 Share Posted February 9, 2002 Hehe... I just manually delete all the extra sheet. Like how it adds and after every line even if the font doesn't change in any way :dead: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 geek Posted February 9, 2002 Share Posted February 9, 2002 FrontPage is great for its tables support, but Dreamweaver's extensibility is great for adding things like Flash, Shockwave (and I love the built-in CSS editor) I personally use both, but for some unknown reason I end up always returning to FrontPage. As to the question, you'll just have to go in and get rid of them manually, unless its a frontpage dependency, then you have a problem. In FP97 you could turn off Verbose code, but here you can't.. oh well, I find it makes the code a hell of a lot easier to read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 eangulus Posted February 10, 2002 Share Posted February 10, 2002 Use Notepad. You can then write what you want, do what you want, make it as hard or as easy to read as you want and never have anything you don't want. And its free so no need to spend anymore. Some people think its hard but you get the hang of it. Its just like learning a second language except this time the language is HTML or XML or something of the sort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 iUk Posted February 16, 2002 Share Posted February 16, 2002 I'm not sure about XP, but in 2000 under Page Options you could set what the target browser and language was for each page. Try setting it to Internet Explorer AND Netscape, or HTML 3.2 or something. When you adjust those settings, FrontPage used to modify the way it would create the code, based on the target browsers and languages. But I would recommend that you stop using the WYSIWYG editor and learn HTML so that you can use it in HTML-mode only. FrontPage is great for people who need the graphical interface, but that's when FP tries to create it's idea of the code. Learning HTML is the best bet. Once you know HTML, you could move over to Notepad, but the color-coding and carriage return features of FP are REALLY helpful, both of which Notepad doesn't have. iUk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Sticktron Posted February 19, 2002 Share Posted February 19, 2002 Please... don't use FrontPage for web development. It's a very unprofessional solution. Download HomeSite (used to be Allaire's, now belongs to Macromedia). HomeSite is builty specifically for professional web development, and will turn your comp into a lean-mean-coding-machine. Try it for free, crack it if you like it, buy it if you can afford it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 condorstats Posted February 19, 2002 Share Posted February 19, 2002 Learn HTML, do it yourself, properly. No complaints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Kris Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 By the way... I am guessing this thread should be merged onto the end of: https://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.ph...&threadid=13662 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Sticktron Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 good guess. oops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 sanctified Veteran Posted February 20, 2002 Veteran Share Posted February 20, 2002 agreed with the fp thing, but actually frontpage xp is pretty good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 iUk Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 condorstats, That comment doesn't help any body. This person's question was about using FrontPage, and you don't offer any help with that comment... iUk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Kris Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Frontpage has been a "good" WYSIWYG editor for a while... once it has been spanked into submission and used correctly. I agree it's not 100% clean, but its not as bad as most make out once you've played with the options etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Celsyus Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 Originally posted by eangulus Use Notepad. You can then write what you want, do what you want, make it as hard or as easy to read as you want and never have anything you don't want. And its free so no need to spend anymore. Some people think its hard but you get the hang of it. Its just like learning a second language except this time the language is HTML or XML or something of the sort. couldn't have said it better. congrats. :cheeky: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 3nd3r Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 I love WYSIWYG editors thats what i used to make my site "Front Page XP" but there is alot of useless code in it.. I think I might try Dream Weaver.. any other suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Celsyus Posted February 20, 2002 Share Posted February 20, 2002 well if you dont solely use notepad, use dreamweaver ultradev 4. It's the best, hands down. It has a split screen view of both design and code, which is very useful. Give it a shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 condorstats Posted February 21, 2002 Share Posted February 21, 2002 okies, sorry. ill be more helpful next time About frontpage. It does make making a website a doddle. Thats what all WYSIWYG editors do, untl you see the code. Its also a pretty safe bet that what looks good in FP and IE looks crap in Netscape. Best idea, (what i do sometimes) is use a WYSIWYG to set up the site, then strip it right back at the HTML level, and do all the things FP did wrong ,right. But you need to know HTML for that, but its a doddle. There are plenty of easy to use notpad alternaties, if you feel the need for a GUI, like Homesite (as said before) or 1st Page 2000, which is cool considering its free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Hawkeye Posted February 21, 2002 Share Posted February 21, 2002 I started out designing pages in FrontPage when I didn't know anything about HTML. Now that I've had some experience, I have slowly begun moving to Notepad. There is still one thing though that I think FrontPage is very useful for?making tables. It's definitely annoying to make tables just in the HTML code itself. FrontPage makes short work out of making tables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 iUk Posted February 21, 2002 Share Posted February 21, 2002 If you don't need a great WYSIWYG interface, then get Visual InterDev 6. It's got WYSIWYG, but that's not it's strong area. It's the best I've used so far. It color codes, keeps the tabs lined up and a lot of other great things, and is great with ASP applications. iUk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Sub Posted February 22, 2002 Share Posted February 22, 2002 I dont see whats so unprofessinal about Front Page? I didnt this page in pure front page. And nobody said anything. www.movecost.com/proto Its the ideas you come up with to make a good site, who cares what tools you use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Celsyus Posted February 22, 2002 Share Posted February 22, 2002 Originally posted by Sub I dont see whats so unprofessinal about Front Page? I didnt this page in pure front page. And nobody said anything. www.movecost.com/proto you just proved their point.. take a look: frontpage does things like this often, I've noticed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Joel Posted February 22, 2002 Share Posted February 22, 2002 Originally posted by Celsyus you just proved their point.. take a look: frontpage does things like this often, I've noticed. I don't see that glitch when I go there. Maybe browser problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Celsyus Posted February 22, 2002 Share Posted February 22, 2002 not a browser prob, its because of my high resolution, try switching to 1280x1024 and see for yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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