I'm not sure if Dreamweaver will remove all the nonsense in the opening HTML that FrontPage craps in when you save a file, but your pages will look the same through a browser window asside from the different browser interpretation can-o-worms nik. But with frontpage, if I wanted to, say, change the bottom border that appears on hundreds of pages, I could do so in the better part of a minute, and the change would appear everythwhere.
Or, if I rename or move a file that other pages link to, all will get the change made at once. If I convert to dreamweaver, am I going to have to do the same thing hundreds of times instead of only once? Won't be much fun if I do. Again, the code that eventually gets put on the web server is not exactly identical to what is on the local version.
Once it goes from local pc to web server, Frontpage will make all the mass duplications that are needed, i. I'm not asking what program is better, I'm just asking how easy a switch will be. And if what you are saying is true, it is going to be an absolute nightmare, because mass-changes that I could do in 30 seconds in Frontpage will instead have to be made one page at a time in Dreamweaver. I would hope the program is a little better than that. To put it another way, Frontpage is far more than just an html editor.
It is a whole management system that makes handling large web sites much easier than a standalone html editor would do. How it compares to Dreamweaver or other programs, I have no idea. But even if they are vastly superior, I'm not going to be real thrilled about switching if it is going to be a long and painful process.
If, on the other hand, I can click a few buttons and all is well, then great. As part of that conversion process, I would want it to recognize that I don't happen to have hundreds of borders on my pages, I just have one, and so when I make a change on one page all the others should get changed too.
ProviaFan Lifer. Mar 17, 14, 1 0. I would suggest if possible bugging your system admin until he installs PHP on your webserver. The amount of PHP code that you would have to learn how to write to put a standard border, insert standard CSS into each page, etc. Consider starting a new topic instead.
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The menu file is included by your web server where you want it. To change the navigation for your site, simply change the menu file. Just like having the menu in a separate file, all the repeated elements of the page can be in separate files, for example the site menu, menus used on a few pages for section navigation, the copyright notice, social networking buttons, your signup form.
This makes them easy to change, and you know they have been changed for all pages that include these items. The amount of administrative work needed with the old way, to make sure you have added, for example, a new social networking icon to all pages on multiple sites, would have kept you from doing it.
That is the approach WordPress takes; the theme designer takes care of all of that layout and styling for you. Modern web browsers will piece things together on a well-designed site in the best way, or at least a decent way, given the font size the user wants to use, and the screen size they have. The site will work decently for someone who is almost blind, using enormous text on a huge monitor, or someone using a web-enabled cell phone or tablet.
It may not have the fancy layout that looks great on a high-resolution wide-screen monitor, but it will be easy to read. On a site where the layout is table-based, visitors to your site would have to keep scrolling their view to read the site. Have you seen people wearing out their fingers to read a web site? Most older web sites have little or no information to help search engines know what your pages are about, and so rank lower than they should in search engines.
Also, they have nothing to tell social media sites like Facebook and Twitter what text to display when someone mentions your site. Your pages will not be found nearly as much as they could. Search engines often consider the first text they see on a page as most important, and show that text in their description of your page.
On many sites, the page banner and menus the text shown at the top and along the left side of the page are at the top of the code for the page, and therefore what search engines see first; with style sheets you can have a page header followed by the main body text, with the repeated elements such as menu and footer listed at the end but displaying where you want them.
You can bring the HTML code of just the portions of each page that are unique. Takes time to find and select the relevant HTML code. Also, the old code probably includes font and color formatting commands that would prevent the style sheet from controlling the look of your pages.
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