MS Frontpage Users! Help?

Factual Questions
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  • Specifically, the top image graphics and the left-side buttons… does Frontpage have this capability? Or rather, does Frontpage have the capability to edit this content?
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Probably not. FrontPage pages all mention the fact in the source code.

FrontPage can be used to create something like this, but the buttons at the left are basically Javascript, which means they were programmed (or the script taken from elsewhere, but it does look original).

You can edit the code by switching to Html view (at the bottom of the window). You can also click on the Javascript and edit it, but you usually only get a small portion of it, so it’s awkward to edit.

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      • There’s some confusion about how the page content was created and what’s necessary to modify it. Anything done to it they want done in Frontpage, so they can change it themselves later. The things they asked about are easy with a graphics editor and Notepad, but I don’t know nuts about what Frontpage does or doesn’t do…
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If they want a WYSISWYG editor, why not use Dreamweaver, PageMill, or even Composer?

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      • Two reasons: they already have Frontpage and know how to use it themselves, and anything else would cost more money.
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        I’m not so much “against” using Frontpage, but modifying this background requires either re-generating a new (modified) background, or using an image editing program to re-do it as a flat background with separate buttons on top. I don’t know if Frontpage can generate this background, and I don’t ever remember Frontpage as being able to do image editing.
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Doug, Frontpage is a lot like Word. This might help you relate to it a little better?

Frontpage doesn’t have capabilities for image editing - as far as I know. It’s really just a program where you arrange the page the way you want it to look, and it writes the HTML code that makes it work (and a little extra code, just for kicks).

A page doesn’t have to be made in Frontpage to be edited in Frontpage. You can write the code in Notepad and then edit it in Frontpage, or vice versa.