Frontpage|interdev|visual Visual InterDev 6.0 versus FrontPage 2000:your Choice
Alexander Maltsev
Visual InterDev 6.0 and FrontPage are two tools used by WEB professionals, but they offer complementary functions. The best one to choose depends on the task for you ' re tackling.
Many people clearly understand difference between visual Interdev®and microsoft®frontpage®: Visual InterDev is part of Visual studio®, hence a developer ' s tool; FrontPage is targeted toward novices and those used to dealing with visual WYSIWYG editing. Yet today, thousands of developers are busy evaluating both, trying to find the proper tool for their.
In this article, I ll compare the latest versions of respective Products:visual InterDev 6.0 and FrontPage 2000. I'll look in several aspects of advanced WEB programming and try to analyze how both F WEB Development.
Graphical and Source Text Editing
As with previous versions, the "Default view in FrontPage" is Normal (view Figure 1). It lets paint a page through a very easy and intuitive interface. A number of helpful toolbars make the editor ' s Windows look like a powerful graphical creation product. The FrontPage editor supports a wealth of modern technologies, such as HTML 4.0, cascading Style Sheets 1, insertion of Java language applets, Jscript®and VBScript, Activex®controls, themes, and even Dynamic HTML effects. I Haven ' t seen any other tool that can beat FrontPage to rich features. FrontPage also supports bots, a special set of tags within page code specifically interpreted by the server ' s FrontPage ex Tensions and the editor itself.
Figure 1:normal View in FrontPage 2000
Can click on the HTML tab in FrontPage to switch to pure HTML mode or preview the page in a embedded browser ' s window . FrontPage now offers syntax highlighting (also known as color coding) to help distinguish among tags, parameters, and Valu Es. Designed as a visual editor, FrontPage are clearly the way to go for WYSIWYG page layout.
Visual InterDev 6.0 is less impressive as a Visual page editor (in the Figure 2). It includes basic HTML functions that are available through the menu or toolbars, but your won ' t find native support for DY Namic effects or anything really hot. This is partially because Visual InterDev 6.0 are more than a year old and the Internet has been growing rapidly (to say th e least), but mostly because advanced developers are used to dealing with the code.
Figure 2:the Visual InterDev 6.0 Page Editor
On the positive side, Visual InterDev has a terrific built-in code editor this should look familiar to anyone who has Spent time with visual c++®, Visual basic®, or visual j++®. This feature alone are worth the price of the product.
When you are work with Visual InterDev, most of your time would be spent looking in the HTML code, although you can also use th E package ' s fairly rudimentary visual editor (it's derived from FrontPage 97). While you can use the menu or a few toolbars to the functionality of the FrontPage editor, I doubt Many Web designers'll do.
If you are work in the Source mode you are the benefits of the integrated Visual Studio package, like configurable syntax Highlighting and automatic code completion (Type an object, add a dot, and get a popup menu listing all the object ' s Prope Rties and methods). Automatic code completion is a important feature that helps reduce your typing and the mistakes I N member function names. The other features like search and replace in specified files (including by a mask) also simplify the Your.
Another interesting feature in Visual InterDev is a revised version of the Reveal Tags feature of FrontPage 2000. You can do it as a symbiosis of the Source and design modes. You are the page rendered in graphical form and but at the same time the view shows the tags around elements. Why is this useful? Say you want to figure out why a heading are so small. By looking in the tags around it, you'll be uses an H2 style instead of H1-and for your didn ' t even have to scroll the page or Move the mouse!
Creating a themed Site
If you ' re designing a standard site without any unique elements, your may want to consider using a theme (a SE
