Mon osti d'ordi le fait exprès, or, Front Page Sucks Big Stinky Yak Balls.

The BBQ Pit
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I designed and built my entire, award winning, 15,000-hitmetro website entirely in plain old ASCII. Now I’m working where they use FrontPage. Fine.

I’m working on a section of the transit company’s official website that will be about art in the metro. Deadline is tomorrow. Today, I translated the last two-thirds of it into French.

So naturally, sixty seconds from quitting time, as I translated the last word, on the last artwork page for the last station, the program decided to die on me. Just went away. No error, no Blue Screen of Death, nothing. Piff.

Ha ha! I thought. I am a canny computer user. I have been saving every five minutes. I will not have lost much work at all.

wrong.

I restarted the program and discovered that [Nelson] ha ha! [/nelson] although it saves all the framed pages you’ve worked on in that session when you quit, it does not do so when you click save. It only saves the frames that are currently on the screen.

*what-*ever.

So I have to redo about half of everything I did this afternoon. (I had quit before going to lunch.)

I hate FrontPage.

[sub]Also, using the French keyboard is making me type this: < whenever I get home and I want to type an apostrophe.[/sub]

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Poor Matt. Sucks when that happens.

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I thought you were going to comment on the front page of the Straight Dope website when I saw this. :slight_smile:

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That’ll teach you to use frames! Blasted abomination that they are.

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I tried writing a really simple, little page in Front Page and when I saved it, it turned out to be a huge file. When I looked at the source it turned out there was a vast amount of unnecessary, invisible bullshit in there, including my name, address and mother’s social security number, which I don’t remember ever telling Front Page. I tried to figure out how to save pages in plain HTML without all the bullshit and couldn’t, so now I’m back to Notepad.

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What sort of bull was in there?

I’ve heard that comment lots of time, I use FP exclusively and have never encountered what it is that people complain about.

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Now I saw THAT as:
Poor Matt sucks when that happens…and I thought,‘What is he whingeing about then?’

Bugger about the FrontPage though Matt. Comisserations, but I’m NOT going to say ‘It Sucks’ (just to be on the safe side eh?:smiley: )

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Well, I thought you were going to complain that your local paper printed a really damaging story about you and placed it prominently on the front page.

Seriously though, Matt, that sucks. I don’t know anything about these computer programs or whatever, but that sounds like an insanely frustrating thing to have happen.

F_X

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I feel your pain… after one project involving FrontPage, I was moved to exclaim, “My sex life’s really improving! FrontPage has screwed me eight different ways in the past two days!”

I actually leave my FrontPage experience off my CV, for fear that I might otherwise land a job where I’d have to use it.

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I feel your pain, brother.

Fuck FrontPage. It bites. It’s fucking awful. Don’t use it. Have you seen the shit extraneous bollocks it puts into the HTML as well?

Macromedia Homesite, Adobe GoLive or DreamWeaver are all suitable alternatives. Burn FrontPage.

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Front Page sucks so very hard on so very many levels.

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FrontPage is only marginally less evil than using Word to prepare web pages. I too fail your pain.

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Well, off to work for the very last day of my project. Time to lube up!

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Fail your pain? What was I on?