What Happened to FrontPage?
June 28th, 2010 | 
Author: Wait!! Don’t run! Yeah, I know, FrontPage? One of the not-so-brilliant IDEs for web design out there. Well, Microsoft changed that for the best. It also came up with a new name and if you don’t know by now, it’s called SharePoint Designer 2007 (SP07). Up until April, 2009 you had to pay a license to own a copy of SP07, when Microsoft decided to give it for FREE.
SP07 is mostly used for SharePoint (Microsoft’s collaboration platform) development but don’t let that full you. SP07 is a fully capable IDE for web development and much better than its predecessor FrontPage. Now it encompasses all the latest web standards. It’s features are very similar to Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express which I talked about on an earlier post.
In comparison to Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express, SP07 has more visual queues. The color picker (eyedropper) can be used any where on the desktop. So, if you find an interesting color on some website, you can pick it from SP07. SP07 offers some site reporting like linked pages, broken links, external links, usage (works with IIS sites only), etc. Another cool feature is the Office Clipboard. Office Clipboard allows you to re-use copied items. There are other cool features that you will find.
In conclusion if you use Windows and strictly work on html based pages, SharePoint Designer 2007 is a great replacement to Dreamweaver and best of all it’s FREE. You can download it directly from Microsoft. There is also SharePoint Designer 2010 but that works strictly with SharePoint 2010.
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Another Web Authoring Application
- WYSIWYG editing of pages
- Reliable HTML code creation that conforms to the current standards
- Integrated file management via FTP
- Tabbed editing
- Powerful support for forms, tables, and templates
How to install Aptana 2.xx on Ubuntu 9.10
In a previous post I created a screen-cast on how to install Aptana Studio 1.2.x on Ubuntu 9.04. Well, I decided to do an updated version of this screen-cast to show you how to install the latest version of Aptana on the latest version of Ubuntu. The instructions should also work for Ubuntu 8.04 and above. Enjoy!