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looking for web design software

Apr 5, 2014 5:05AM PDT

Hi-- I have two webs I developed a few years back with Front Page using tables. I know it's no longer supported but I have a host provider. I'm considering a third web for my political cartoons, and I'm wondering what software to get.
I love FP, how easy it was (and is) to work with, so I'd like to find something just as easy. I'm near to 86 years of age and I'd like something not too expensive and not too complicated, and therefore time consuming. I would've like to include the urls to my webs so you could've seen the type of thing I do, but I noticed something in your guide which concerned self promotion, which is not my intention.
All advice is very welcome. Thanks

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Link, comment.
Apr 5, 2014 5:10AM PDT
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word press versus FP
Apr 5, 2014 8:29AM PDT

Thanks Bob. I'm aware of Word Press. I tried the standard--no control. It places things where it wants them to be, not where I want them to be. They have a Premium, yes? These are my two webs:
http://MartinJRyan.com
http://RyanArtDuo.com
They show what I was able to do with FP. I'm a professional artist. Can I create art/design and apply it to Word press the same as I can with FP? And can I have the same kind of control? Placing images and text exactly where I want them to be on a page?

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While I agree
Apr 6, 2014 2:18PM PDT

with Bob's suggestion, for your purposes, and based on what you're looking for, WordPress would not do what you want out of the box. You'd need some help.

That said, since you want to tackle this on your own, the one program that comes to mind that's pretty similar to FrontPage (and free) is Kompozer: http://kompozer.net/

As a side note, if you still have FrontPage, why not continue to use it? Just because it's unsupported doesn't mean it doesn't work anymore. It seems to get the job done for you.

~Sovereign

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web design software
Apr 7, 2014 2:44AM PDT

Thanks Sovereign--
Right, I'd just continue with FP. Trouble is, the service hosts. I had one for years and suddenly I was having trouble with managing on line. They claimed (I forget the terminology) they still had the FP something or other, required, but they didn't. I found someone down south who is hosting me now, and doing it well, but he's an older person and may decide to retire. There's the rub. How many places are (or will be) hosting FP? I'll look at Kompozer.

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I think you mean "frontpage extensions"
Apr 7, 2014 3:16AM PDT

Since hosting a full up FP compatible service means you pay MSFT for the priviledge as well as fully dependent on MSFT patching, well, most hosts have moved away from that system. It was a great idea but you can read why hosts moved away.

You can continue using FrontPage but without the nice feature of not having to deal with publishing the site with FTP or what system the next host uses.

Komposer will let you do -> any <- HTML you desire, even if invalid. It's a power tool so the fun is still how to publish your edited pages?
Bob

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web design software
Apr 7, 2014 5:13AM PDT

Thanks Bob-- It all used to b so simple--life!

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Publishing
Apr 7, 2014 2:50PM PDT

I believe KompoZer, much like FrontPage, lets you create sites to publish to and then you can press "Publish" to upload your changes/files, but without needing the FrontPage extension.

See section 10.3.1 and 10.3.2: http://www.charlescooke.me.uk/web/ugs10.htm#s103

~Sovereign

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"Publishing Site settings"
Apr 8, 2014 1:46AM PDT

As I did use FrontPage back then I can write it was simpler than Komposer's setup. While I understand the publish section of Komposer I also wrote code for routers so for me it all makes sense.

I can understand why many scream when they hit FTP.
Bob

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web design software
Apr 30, 2014 10:09PM PDT

Thanks for sharing these tools