FrontPage creates html/asp mixed pages Ⅰ

I've been using Microsoft's FrontPage 98来 to develop Internet database applications such as Asp/ado. Now I hear that a lot of people are embracing InterDev as a tool for developing those programs because they think FrontPage is messing with the code. But here, I'd like to cite some excellent reasons why I prefer FrontPage.

Many of my clients are entrepreneurs who believe that for a Web site, FrontPage and other WYSIWYG Web site development tools can create pages without programming. Of course, "no programming" is for certain content, not about ASP's site.

You can use Notepad, other text editors, or Visual InterDev to create an ASP Web page that works well, but if you are processed by FrontPage or any other WYSIWYG editor, your code will become messy. Because these editors cannot read and understand the ASP script in the page, they think that the page code has been wrong and then "corrected" it.

However, if you understand what FrontPage likes and dislikes, and you know your code, you'll see that all the problems are gone. The FrontPage Editor does create ASP pages, just like you can do with Notepad, Visual InterDev, and so on.

So where is the advantage? I can give programmers 100 dollars an hour, but my clients don't want to pay $100 per hour for HTML design. For this reason, they either design them themselves, or hire people to design and then pay for the expenses. I write ASP code in the page and then deliver it to them. Then, if they want to make changes to the style of the program, they can open the page in FrontPage or other WYSIWYG editors, and simply and quickly modify the HTML page even without programming knowledge.

Example

Let me give you an example. The discussion here is for FrontPage 98, which is not as user-friendly as FrontPage 2000, but is widely used.

Imagine that there is a form on the page where you want to conditionally set the Action property of the form based on the variables passed over from the query string. You can write several form tags and use the values of the variables to choose which form to place on the page. For the purposes of the discussion, enclose the HTML code in square brackets.

<%
Dim MyVar
MyVar = Request.QueryString ("MyVar")%>
<%if myvar = "1" then%>
[<form name= "MyForm" action= "mypage1.asp" METHOD=POST&GT;]
<%elseif MyVar = "2" then%>
[<form name= "MyForm" action= "mypage2.asp" METHOD=POST&GT;]
<%elseif MyVar = "3" then%>
[<form name= "MyForm" action= "mypage3.asp" METHOD=POST&GT;]
<%else%>
[<form name= "MyForm" action= "mypage4.asp" METHOD=POST&GT;]
<%end if

%>
' Form HTML here
[</form>]