Hi Lars,

I use Homesite 4.5 from Allaire to code all my HTML, JavaScript, PHP, and
shell scripts. I have found it to be very reliable. It has an excellent
user interface. The limitations to Homesite is that is a huge resource hog
and it is finicky with the beta release of Samba (2.0.3).

I have experimented with Macromedia Dreamweaver. It is an incredible
product. If it wasn't for the user interface, I would use it over Homesite.
If you are looking for a WYSIWYG, dreamweaver has an excellent one that
generates very clean cross-browser code. Works well with Samba to boot.

My brief experiences with any Microsoft product that supposedly generates
html have been bad. Very bulky html is usually generated, loaded with
proprietary tags.

I am continuing to search for a product that has some of the features of
Homesite without all the extra junk that bogs it down.

-Peter Osborne
Carleton Technologies

At 06:10 PM 10/15/2000 -0500, Michael L Gueterman wrote:
>Hi Lars,
>
>   FrontPage is fine for simple sites, but the HTML code it generates
>tends to be extremely "bloated".  NetObjects Fusion has been around
>a long time too and I've heard some good things about it although
>I've never tried it.
><plug>
>   Allaire has two products that are very good as well.  The first is
>Homesite.  It has both graphical (WYSIWYG) editing as well as more
>traditional code-based editing. You can flip back and forth between
>the two, so its good for people just getting started as well as those
>that have some experience with HTML directly.  The other is
>Cold Fusion Studio.  It's been described as Homesite on steroids :)
>It's basically the same but has many more functions built into it to
>handle non-HTML coding as well (like JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, Cold Fusion,
>etc).
></plug>
>   If you decide to go the demo route, I believe all of the above
>have demo's available from the web.
>
>Regards,
>Michael L Gueterman
>Easy Does It Technologies
>http://www.editcorp.com
>voice: 888.858.EDIT or 573.368.5478
>fax:   573.368.5479
>--
>
>Lars wrote:
>
><snip>
> >
> > A colleague of mine is using MS FrontPage to maintain web pages
> > on Apache/iX (via Samba/iX mapped network drive; as far as I heard,
> > MS proprietary "frontpage extensions" would offer other methods to
> > access the web server space). He did not seem too happy with the
> > FrontPage stuff (maybe he just needs more time to familiarize).
><snip>
> > Does anybody have experience with Fusion and/or FrontPage, especially
> > when it comes to using it together with MPE based web servers? What
> > other tools are you using to maintain web sites? Just curious at the
> > moment; I don't feel inclined to spend a lot of time on playing with
> > demo versions...
> >
> > Lars.
> >