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Jul 15, 1999
Using Microsoft FrontPage to Create ASP
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I develop ASP/ADO Database applications for a living. I almost always use Microsoft FrontPage 98 to do
BackOffice (32)
this. Now, I’ve heard many people swear by Visual InterDev as the tool of choice for developing ASP/ADO
Components (74) applications, claiming that FrontPage messes up their code, but there are a number of excellent reasons why I prefer By Kevin
Data Access (126) FrontPage: Spencer
Miscellaneous (35) ASP Tricks
Non-MS ASP (10) Most of my clients are entrepreneurs, who had an idea for a web site and bought into the claims that FrontPage and
the other WYSIWYG Web Site development tools enable you to create web sites without programming. Well,
Scripting (82)
"without programming" may be true to a certain extent, but not ASP web sites, for sure! enter the
Security/Admin (44)
discussion
Site Design (42) You can use NotePad, another text editor or Visual InterDev to create ASP web pages that work fine, but the same
Site server (13) pages will be mangled by FrontPage, or another WYSIWYG Editor, because these editors aren’t capable of reading and
XML (63) understanding the ASP scripting in the pages. They think the HTML in the pages is wrong and so they helpfully "correct" it.
free email updates But, if you understand what FrontPage likes and doesn’t like, and are clever about your coding, then you'll find all your problems
disappear. FrontPage Editor can create ASP pages that can do literally anything that ASP pages created in NotePad, Visual InterDev,
etc. can do.
So, what’s the advantage? Well, I charge $ for programming services, and my clients don’t want to pay $ for
HTML layout. So, they either do