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Subject:Re[2]: FrontPage Fussy From:Arlen P Walker <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 18 Jan 1999 15:04:00 -0600
I have been assigned the task of creating and maintaining a corporate
Intranet (200 employee company) and am very interested in
recommendations/limitations of HTML and Web-site development tools.
How big do you forsee this growing? The bigger the site, the more the need
for management tools to go with it.
For simple, straightforward editing, nothing beats Dreamweaver. For a
large, complex site, you might want to team Dreamweaver with something like
Frontier to do your content management. (Sports Illustrated used Frontier
recently to manage the pictures from the Goodwill games.)
Packages like CyberStudio and Fusion contain their own site management
tools. The circumstances around these two tools are changing as we speak
(Adobe now owns CyberStudio, so it will be going cross-platform soon, while
Fusion seems to be going the other direction) so check them out with your
own situation in mind before going too much farther along. I use Fusion,
and have had zero problems with it.
For lighter duty, Pagemill from Adobe is an interesting choice, though its
future is uncertain, now that Adobe owns CyberStudio.
If your site is simple, your server is going to be MS IIS, and your viewers
will all be running MSIE, then consider Front Page. I wouldn't consider
using it under any other circumstances, because the code it generates seems
to run noticeably slower in Netscape than MSIE, and the code itself is
cumbersome enough to be not worth the performance cost unless you're taking
advantage of the Front Page server extensions.
(That having been said, I should note here that, in my personal experience,
I haven't found a need for running FP server extensions. This is not an
exhaustive study, simply one data point.)
Have fun,
Arlen
Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
DNRC 224
Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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