Does Frontpage Express produce "clean HTML" or is it littered with proprietary M$ extensions? According to Webmasters FAQ: "RootsWeb does not presently support Microsoft Front Page 98 extensions." http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/wizards/webmasters.html#msfp98 I'd assume current versions of Frontpage use propriety extensions as well. della wrote: > You can download for free frontpage express. It works just like microsoft word. No html is needed at all. The buttons at the top are almost just like words. just type in at your browser window: free frontpage express and go into it and download it! Build your page on this just like you were building a microsoft word page almost and hit save. > <snip>

At 04:16 PM 11/15/2006, you wrote: >Does Frontpage Express produce "clean HTML" or is it littered with >proprietary M$ extensions? >According to Webmasters FAQ: "RootsWeb does not presently support >Microsoft Front Page 98 extensions." >http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/wizards/webmasters.html#msfp98 >I'd assume current versions of Frontpage use propriety extensions as well. ================snip======= I can not speak for fp express and I would question using such an outdated program when newer free programs are available BUT FrontPage will create clean compliant code if used correctly. You have to know what to use and what not to use. If you use the navigation features and the themes and the phot gallery among others, FP will create code that will not validate. If you know your program - be it frontpage, expression web, dreamweaver or whatever - the code you create will validate easily. This site http://www.genealogy-web-creations.com/ as are all my sites, were created with frontpage and/or Expression Web. They validate. pat

Wow, going back to anything from 1998 is a stretch. Microsoft in general has always used extensions and scrpts that don't play on everybody's server or browser software. The application here for a beginner's web site doesn't really pertain to these much higher generation concerns. Today we have XML, SHTML, etc. all far much more than original HTML 4.0 which is fine for a genealogy web site. I used Front Page Express for years. It came with earlier MS bundles. It didn't come with Win XP. It isn't supported anymore by MS, the last time I checked their site. Obviously, they found it far more profitable to sell the full version of Front Page. I think you could use Front Page Express and produce a page that works. You could also explore some of the many free downloads you can find by searching. As in all things on the internet, nothing is 100% intuitive. Web site construction does involve a learning curve, and some study of the principles behind the software. Good luck in setting up your site, Jeff Owens Glenn Gilbert wrote: >Does Frontpage Express produce "clean HTML" or is it littered with >proprietary M$ extensions? >According to Webmasters FAQ: "RootsWeb does not presently support >Microsoft Front Page 98 extensions." >http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/wizards/webmasters.html#msfp98 >I'd assume current versions of Frontpage use propriety extensions as well. > >della wrote: > > >>You can download for free frontpage express. It works just like microsoft word. No html is needed at all. The buttons at the top are almost just like words. just type in at your browser window: free frontpage express and go into it and download it! Build your page on this just like you were building a microsoft word page almost and hit save. >><snip> >> >> > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >

HATCHER website: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/faq.htm HATCHER DNA project: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/hatDNA.htm HALL DNA project: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/hall/HDNAtest.htm Researching: Cook, Hall, Hatcher, Miller, Shepherd, Timberman "Genealogy without Documentation is Nothing" - Paul Drake I have also been using FP Express for years. When I saw what the "new improved" FP generated in the way of "code", creating excessive code that produced a page 3X the size as that produced by an FPE page, I stuck with FPE and still use it. While I agree that any software requires a learning curve, I found FPE relatively simple to use and since I like working on the KISS principle, I'll stay with it......... Nel

At 04:16 PM 11/15/2006, Glenn Gilbert wrote: >Does Frontpage Express produce "clean HTML" or is it littered with >proprietary M$ extensions? Express, though no longer supported, does produce much cleaner code than FP. With FPE it is still important, however, to keep things simple, to insure that: 1) You don't try to use features that are not supported by the RootsWeb servers 2) You don't clutter pages with effects that may "look pretty" but which do not contribute to the purpose of a RootsWeb page - i.e., the dissemination of genealogical information. The only way to get really clean code is to write it by hand, but that requires a web page designer who understands HTML, equipped with a tool such as a customized programmer's editor. For those who do not wish to or need to master HTML themselves, FPE is a viable alternative as long as one does not demand too much from it. Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project http://members.cox.net/plymouthcolony/index.shtml