dreamweaver is easily the best designing tool around.. frontpage is in the bronze ages.. yeah, but for the price, frontpage is ok, but comparison with dreamweaver.. no macromedia's unbeatable support, customer care effieciency and the beautiful piece of artwork, the software itself.. the whole thing about frontpage is just exXXXagerated by microsoft, well expected, but its a tool for absolute beginners.. no way can it be a subsitute for dreamweaver

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It really depends on what you are creating for your website, and the knowledge that you have about web editing, and the such.

Microsoft FrontPage is a convienent program for the first time user, it bundles a powerful HTML editor, and WYSIWYG editor into one package, and it even includes tutorials. Frontpage is only for editing HTML pages.

Macromedia (Now Adobe, got bought out ) Dreamweaver is a much more advanced web editing program, which has almost all of the formats that websites use, like HTML, PHP, ColdFusion, etc... Dreamweaver is for the more advanced user who has more familiraity with web editing, and understands some basic manual coding.

I used to use FrontPage when I was starting to work on basic websites, like HTML. But then I wanted to go further, to work with a SQL Database, and PHP, so I made the switch to Dreamweaver.

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I've used both Dreamweaver and Frontpage, and I'd go with Dreamweaver, but only if you have web design experience. Dreamweaver has a very steep learning curve, so if you are new to web design, I'd stick with Frontpage until you get a little more experience, and then switch to Dreamweaver. You should do it eventually. Dreamweaver is a much nicer program that Frontpage, and Dreamweaver can do a lot more...stuff.

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frontpage is kinda like microsoft word i reckon, its really wierd to use, i made a layout on dreamweaver and wen i opened it on frontpage it completely messed up the layout.. so i think dreamweaver is way easier to use, especially wen u r using php!

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hi,
dreamweaver is more professional easier than front page.
you can use it to do advanced web site.
in front page you may have problems if you like to use flash object but with dreamweaver it's fun you can change back ground color of flash movie ,....

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DW is more professional.
PS: you can not download a free DW version from adobe .com because the DW is not the product of adobe,it's the product of Macromedia

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You can download a free trial of DW from www.macromedia.com

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you can't compare dreamweaver and frontpage... frontpage is like some freeware... dreamweaver is a very powerful html editor... i just can't list the features which dreamweaver has and frontpage doesn't... there's too much! if you are a web programmer (asp,php,etc..) then you notice some difference.. you can also make flash buttons and banners in dreamweaver. the code is cleaner and better... if you try to make some pages in frontpage(feedback form, etc.)it will be on frontpage components which is not very common... it would be nice if they started those stuff for asp and php also.
and hey the dreamweaver layout view allows you to make tables of any kind easily... its extremely powerful
dreamweaver rocks!

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I only used dreamweaver once because I got pissed off by all the customised codes, to make rollovers for instance.

I use frontpage but I'm not happy with it because it changes my settings whenever I go to normal mode from html.

I don't know with dreamweaver but I find the preview button in frontpage very convinient.

I use frontpage to decode all the websites I like to duplicate. hehe.

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I think Dreamweaver is better than Front Page for english contents.

I am living here in middle east and every website must have a Arabic version here. I face too many problem with DreamViewer while writing arabic contents. So for Arabic websites i always use Frontpage.

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