Built my first web page with FrontPage back in the mid '90s... but soon stopped using it after I realized the absolutely spaghetti it produced
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It did help me learn to write my own code once I saw what was happening, though
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
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Communicator includes mail, navigator and composer.
I don't remember if I used FrontPage or the Netscape Composer first. But after playing with CoffeeCup Pro for a little while, my editor of choice was HomeSite, back in the 1990s. I disliked a lot when Macromedia bought it out and made it just a component of Dreamweaver.
Pretty sure we built the whole dotcom sector on this in July 1998.
The best part was having to set up locally a IIS 3.0 web server to test the HTML and, for the first time, ASP directives.