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Front Page or HTML? by Yisroel Goodman

This is a question that is asked very often. In a recent newsletter (actually he calls it "Almost A Newsletter") Boogie Jack also addressed the issue. I recommend that people interested in Web Development or getting the most from their PCs, subscribe to this free newsletter at www.boogiejack.com.

Publishing programs such as Publisher and Front Page let the user "draw" the page and then generate the HTML to produce that page in a browser. They often add a lot of unnecessary code that slows the page display. Sometimes taking the HTML output of Front Page and removing the uncessary code shrinks the page down by 2/3. Many visitors will not wait for a slow page to load and will simply leave your site before the page even displays.

These publishing programs do not give you full control over what you want to do. Some HTML commands have many options. Publishers do not have a way to implement all of these, so you are limited to what they let you do. You can learn to make your pages exactly as you like, rather than settling for what the publisher will give you.

HTML, Javascript and other similar development tools are free. Publishers are not. Once you use one to develop your site, without learning HTML yourself, you have to continue using that tool. This means you are locked in to buying upgrades.

When you find useful Javascripts, Publishers often won't let you add it. They will either remove what you added or prevent it from running.

When the resulting code of a publisher doesn't work properly, which happens regularly, you won't be able to fix it.

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