Microsoft Ditches FrontPage in Next Office

Friday, Feb. 17 2006 | Author: jeremy

In the next release of Microsoft Office, now officialy called Office 2007, Microsoft will discontinue its FrontPage webdesign program.

FrontPage does serve as the foundation for two different Web-design programs: SharePoint Designer 2007, which is intended for organizations using the SharePoint server-based Web-development platform; and Expression Web Designer, which appears to be outside of the Office application family (it isn’t included in any of the Office 2007 bundles, nor is it listed as a standalone Office app the way Project and Visio have been and will continue to be in the new release).

Many web design professionals were seen dancing in the streets, screaming something about “ding dongs” and a witch dying.

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8 Responses for "Microsoft Ditches FrontPage in Next Office"

Elissa

February 17th, 2006 at 4:59 pm
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“Many web design professionals were seen dancing in the streets, screaming something about “ding dongs” and a witch dying.”

that made me giggle
tofuComputer

February 17th, 2006 at 7:52 pm
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I heard Beavis screaming, “Yeah!, Yeah! Die FrontPage, DIIIEEE!, heehehe,huhuuhuha, yah, yah, it’s dead, dead”, while listening to The Chili Peppers.
:)
Mike

February 19th, 2006 at 1:36 pm
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Haha, I’m one of those screaming “Ding dong the witch is dead!”
Randy

February 20th, 2006 at 6:32 am
4

Isn’t it just getting some updates and changing names to Microsoft Expression Web Designer?
cliche

February 20th, 2006 at 10:00 am
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I don’t think FrontPage was *that* bad. For noobs who’re familar with MS interface and nothing else, there is probably nothing easier than FrontPage.

When my dad wanted to make a web page, I recommended Dreamweaver on WYSIWYG interface(without html). He gave up on it and went with his friend’s copy of FrontPage. It turned out to be a nested-tables hell that made blood stream out of my eyes when I saw the source. But he couldn’t have created that fugliness without FrontPage.
Griffith

February 21st, 2006 at 3:49 am
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I remember once in an IRC channel a long long time ago someone bragging about his (really horrible) homepage that had been made entirely using notepad.

Upon checking the sorce, I remember the first line being in the likes of:
Griffith

February 21st, 2006 at 3:50 am
7

I accidentaly HTML commented the code but it was in the likes of:

“This website was built using Microsoft Fronpage Version etc”
KHayes

March 7th, 2007 at 9:18 am
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I’m a dancing person too! Now if we could just put an end to Publisher too, the world would come back into harmony and people could love one another again!

One down, one to go….