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Kuan C. Shih

CIS-10A

09-05-2005

 

Assignment 3

Web Pages

 

            Ever since the dawn of the internet; more and more new programmers and web page editors, have been creating websites. And also because of this, internet has been such a success and was able to expand so fast in such a short amount of time. Now the question arises, how did these ordinary everyday people like you and me manage to create a webpage and was able to maintain it? Well first thing’s first, there are many programs out there on the internet for anyone to just download and start creating web pages, but since there are so many programs how do you know which one is most user friendly?

            For the purpose of this assignment, I am going to choose and compare the three main web page editors, Netscape Composer or MS FrontPage Express or FrontPage 2003. The first one, Netscape Compose; since most of the web designing tools are a little bit on the pricey part, Netscape Composer actually reduces the need for that cost. Netscape Composer actually puts everything in plain English so that even beginning computer users are able to create web pages. In the tutorial, it even shows you how to make and edit a table, for whatever your purpose may be. So after viewing some of the Netscape Composers tutorial, it sounds to me like it's actually a pretty easy program to be used. Although Netscape Composer lacks a little bit in featuring the tools, it is one of the most user friendly web page editors online.

               Next we have Microsoft FrontPage Express, since all the Microsoft products especially the programs are almost in many ways identical. It wasn't that hard trying to figure out the controls and where about of most the tools are. Now one of the most amazing features that Microsoft has come up with is the WebBot, the WebBot provides the users with translations into computer language. What that means is that, new users like me can actually write great web pages without even knowing any computer languages. Now for the more advance users there's actually a button on the lower left hand corner called HTML where more advance users can make more changes to the web page to suit their needs or wants. But the best thing about this tool is that HTML actually highlights the program names for users so it's so much easier for users to find the program and it is usually marked in red.

                  Now just like the Microsoft FrontPage Express, the tools are very similar, and that is the first thing that I always notice about Microsoft programs. Since I'm comparing the regular FrontPage with the Express one of the main differences with these programs is that FrontPage has more of a business type design on it compared with the express who's much more into just design. Microsoft has added this new program named Button Builder to the Mouse, where now you can control some of the tools on your mouse. Now from what I gathered from the ratings and reviews online is that there has been a dramatic improvement on FrontPage compared with the version before FrontPage 2003.