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The History of FrontPage - 2/15/2006 13:10:47
"a historical timeline of FrontPage from its inception in 1994 (originally developed by Vermeer Technologies, Inc.) to the current release Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003"
http://www.seoconsultants.com/frontpage/history/
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RE: The History of FrontPage - 2/16/2006 11:11:40
I started out with 97. I got a pre-release copy at Fall InternetWorld that year. I knew what my career was going to be the moment I read the back of the box.
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RE: The History of FrontPage - 2/16/2006 12:02:02
I started right before MS bought Vermeer (1995 November). My first site was this killer framed website powered by an asp backend and an Access database. ;) It's still going strong today. ;)
Thanks for the mention Thomas!
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Pageoneresults has a great site that demonstrates what Frontpage is capable of when used correctly.
Thanks Spooky! You should see some of my client sites that have some later technologies incorporated. Sorry, can't release those. ;)
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RE: The History of FrontPage - 2/16/2006 12:34:21
Thank you for this - very interesting reading that takes me back (perhaps further than I care!). I started with '97 after working solely with NotePad for a number of years.
It wasn't until the 2003 version that I even paid for FP, since I was a Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint) all that time and was fed lots of free stuff throught the MSDN program.
While I have played with GoLive and Dreamweaver many times, I still find FP is my weapon of choice.
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RE: The History of FrontPage - 2/16/2006 12:49:58
I started out using FP97, at the time we were using RoboHelp to make .hlp files to store procedure memos for the call center I worked in. I got lucky since I knew a little about PC's and got to be a backup making updates.
Anyway, all the .hlp files combined took up 800 meg on the server and IT group was not pleased, so they decided to switch to html files.
I was given a copy of FP97, a Teach Yourself HTML Programming in 24 Hours book and a program that converted .hlp files to HTML files (did a terrible job).
When all was said and done the new web had 13,000 pages, but only took up about 70 meg so everyone was happy.
I went to a new department just when FP98 came out but I did buy a copy of it for home, it was a HUGE improvement over FP97.
Trust me, making a 13k page website using FP97 on a P75 with 32 meg of ram was a nightmare since there were 2 distinct programs you ran to edit the web, it was goofy.
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RE: The History of FrontPage - 2/16/2006 12:52:28
You don't hear many people talk about it but FrontPage Express was a little powerhouse CMS. The moment I got my copy of IE4, my host helped me set it up so I could edit live at the browser. That was my first foray into using FP at the browser level instead of working locally and then FTP'ing. I was playing with a copy of FP Express a week or so ago and am amazed at how clean the code is that it generates. No bloat, no nothing, just pure html.
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RE: The History of FrontPage - 2/16/2006 16:13:23
I think I used 97, but had it for a very short period of time before I used 98. That's where the bad rep for code bloat came from -- it was horrible if you had to tweak the HTML.
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RE: The History of FrontPage - 2/16/2006 16:20:22
Yeah, I think one was Explorer and the other was Editor or something like that. Problem was if you tried to admin a website using Explorer it loaded the pages or checked something?? Anyway, anything over a few hundred pages and it would take forever to even find the page you wanted to edit it was so slow. I learned real fast that I had to break the web into about 30 subwebs so as to be able to finish the project before I died.
Remember that silly little star thing in the corner that would flash when the program was thinking, how I came to loathe it!
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RE: The History of FrontPage - 2/16/2006 16:42:38
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amazed at how clean the code is that it generates. No bloat, no nothing, just pure html. ..so where did they go wrong??? lol
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RE: The History of FrontPage - 2/16/2006 16:55:26
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]..so where did they go wrong??? lol
I think it all got crazy with themes and shared borders. Did FP Express have Webbots?
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RE: The History of FrontPage - 2/16/2006 17:24:07
I used FrontPage Version 1 (and I still have the setup disc somewhere). I learnt it in 1996 when the Australian National Farmers Federation wanted all farming bodies to have their own web sites. They provided the software, a PC and training to each member organisation. It was very very basic and you had to do a lot of things manually. I remember that if you saved a file with a space in the name, nothing would work properly - so I'm still not using spaces in file names! I also remember that first website, where everything had to be big and bold with awful backgrounds and as many animated gifs as you could find but file sizes had to be tiny because everybody had slow dial up connections (especially those living in the Bush)
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Looking Ahead - 2/16/2006 19:13:10
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"a historical timeline of FrontPage from its inception in 1994 (originally developed by Vermeer Technologies, Inc.) to the current release Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003"
I just read today that Microsoft will be gradually phasing out Front Page so the history will end with Front Page 2003.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/feb06/02-15Designer.mspx
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RE: Looking Ahead - 2/17/2006 9:20:25
interesting to see "history of front page" and death of front page" posted so close together
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Has anyone here used '97? I only went back as far as 98, and that was back when I found "HotDog" a good WYSIWYG editor.
, man I am glad FP progresssed (Could have been the carpenter though 
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