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    In the world of the Internet, there's the most essential thing that will be the web site. Programmers used to edit their web pages by normal term editors such as Notepad.

    After several years of web authorizing, web pages became more complicated. For that reason, it's too difficult to pro-gram web-pages manually using normal word authors due to using so much artwork. As a result, many organizations provid their particular net writers. The most popular softwares are Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver. In the web design world, there are two large categories of web designers, one of which prefers Microsoft FrontPage and one of which prefers Macromedia Dreamweaver. Within this discussion, you can find both advantages and disadvantages in using these two programs.

    Microsoft Frontpage:

    Microsoft FrontPage:The thought of providing a web publisher as Microsoft FrontPage is to reduce the problems of fabricating websites. The birthday of this application which can be offered by Vermeer Technologies, Inc was in 1994. The program was named 'WYSIWYG', What You See Is What You Get. Then, Microsoft, Corp bought the software rights and changed the name to Microsoft FrontPage in 1995. After that, Microsoft has made several updates of the software: version 1.1, version 2, show 2.0 and the like until Microsoft FrontPage 2003. Nevertheless, Microsoft this year, 2007 has stopped offering FrontPage and they produced two forms of Microsoft Expression Web, Microsoft SharePoint Designer and softwares.

    You can find two benefits of using Microsoft FrontPage. One of them that is the interface of Microsoft FrontPage is the same as Microsoft Word. Because of this, people who usually use Microsoft Word can handle FrontPage's resources. Moreover, the software is very easy to use. Another good thing about using this software is providing amazing themes with that you can create invaluable site. For that reason, there are always a large amount of pictures within this software, and net keys, ads.

    On the other hand, you'll find two disadvantages of using this program. First, the application often put a great deal of redundant codes in-the web-page programming. Your web pages that are created with Microsoft FrontPage could be browsed clearly by Microsoft Internet Explorer, but they couldn't be browsed well by other web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox. 2nd, you'll need a web server in order to work some energetic activities. Joe, in his report 'Macromedia Dreamweaver Versus Microsoft FrontPage' says' Another small hindrance of Frontage is that you need a web server that supports FrontPage extensions to get some functions to work.'

    Macromedia Dreamweaver:

    Macromedia Dreamweaver is one of the most effective programs all around the net authorizing world. Macromedia Corp, which offered Flash and Fireworks programs, entered the world of web development by giving Macromedia Dreamweaver in 1996. Consequently, Macromedia Corp created the 'WYSIWYG', What You See Is What You Get, to produce the Dreamweaver software. Because Macromedia Dreamweaver became the main supplier of-the organization, they made a number of revisions with this software: Dreamweaver 2.0, Dreamweaver 3.0 until Dreamweaver CS3. In fact, Adobe Corp ordered Macromedia Corp in 2006, so they became one company a year ago.

    You will find three features of using Macromedia Dreamweaver. First, the program supports several types of movement including display. More over, there are some great thumb buttons that are offered with Macromedia Dreamweaver. Minute, you will make plenty of web templates that you use for an extremely large numbers of web pages. Third, the program supports a sizable band of programming languages. For that reason, you are able to build your internet site by Active Server Pages (ASP), Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) etc.

    In comparison, there two drawbacks in using this software. To get another standpoint, please check-out: mountainbikes. One of them is the difficulty of using the software's methods. According to Joe, in his article 'Macromedia Dreamweaver Vs Microsoft FrontPage' using Macromedia Dreamweaver is not easy as a result of lack of the novice tools. Therefore, the software's interface includes a lot of complicated instruments that deal with a huge number of functions. Yet another problem of using Macromedia Dreamweaver is a tad bit more costly than Microsoft FrontPage.

    Conclusion:

    In conclusion, the most popular programs that induce webpages are Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver. Each one includes a variety of advantages and disadvantages. The features of Microsoft FrontPage focus on the easiness of utilizing the pro-gram, but disadvantages of this computer software focus on development websites. The benefits of Macromedia Dreamweaver focus on how this software is perfect for utilizing the geatest web graphics. In comparison, the drawbacks of that pc software concentrate on the difficulty of utilizing the tools and costs. In my opinion, because I am knowledgeable about Microsoft Office I choose to use Microsoft FrontPage. More over, I've been using Microsoft FrontPage since 2000. Consequently, I have an excellent connection with using this software.

    Sources:

    Microsoft FrontPage: From Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage

    Macromedia Dreamweaver Compared to Microsoft FrontPage: Posted by Joe on: 2006-07-30, http://www.selfseo.com/story-18502.php

    Managing Web Web sites With Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004: Published by Tim Switzky, http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~i385f/archive/switzky_a/MacromediaDreamweaverMX2004.htm

    Adobe Dreamweaver: From Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamweaver.

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