Microsoft FrontPage (also known as Microsoft Office FrontPage) is a discontinued WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool from Microsoft for the Windows line of operating systems. It was branded as part of the Microsoft Office suite from 1997 to 2003. Microsoft FrontPage has since been replaced by Microsoft Expression Web and SharePoint Designer, which were first released in December 2006 alongside Microsoft Office 2007, but these two products were also discontinued in favor of a web-
I loved FrontPage. You could whip up a site in no time. The code it created was a disaster, but to be fair it worked fine.
I’d often use a WUSSYWAGON editor like FrontPage to make up a design and see how it looked, then just redo it by hand (or at least MAJORLY edit it) in Notepad so it wasn’t spaghetti.
I made a site for my dad’s business in FrontPage (then edited in Notepad) back in the very early 00s and hosted it on the 5MB of web space provided by the dialup provider at the time. It’s still there and exactly the same, though I had to move it to another provider in the late 00s when the ISP went bust. It’s gonna outlive him, and possibly me.
I’m familiar with WYSIWYG but I’ve never heard of WUSSYWAGON.
Not a jeffk fan? Dammit I’m so old
Don’t worry, some of us are still leet like jeffk, even after all these years!
Pff, shoulda just used netscape communicator
Composer
Communicator includes mail, navigator and composer.