Comparison of FrontPage 2003 and Dreamweaver MX

Issue

How FrontPage handles this.

How Dreamweaver handles this.

Web site setup

Interacts with the server directly

Prefers to interact with a “local site” and then publish to a server

Web page properties

Right click on page to retrieve menu

Menu can be opened under page on desktop

Create links

Highlight, right click and choose Hyperlinks (or CTRL-K)

Menu for setting links is part of page properties and is opened under page

Insert Multimedia Images

Choose Insert-Pictures and then from: file, clipart, etc

Choose Insert-Image and then choose image from file menu

Modifying Images

Right click on image, choose image properties

Click on image and menu at bottom becomes the image property menu

Tables

Can choose tables in a few ways: can choose from Insert-Tables, can choose from task panels

Insert Tables from Insert menu or table button on toolbar

Creating “bookmarks”

Called Bookmarks, place cursor at location in page, choose Insert-Bookmark, and in new window to give bookmark a name.

Called Named Anchors, choose Insert-Named Anchor and give the anchor a name

Marking “bookmarks” in page

Type your text or insert button for navigation, highlight, right click, choose hyperlink and choose Bookmark

Type your text or insert button for navigation, highlight and in the link box in the properties menu, type “#name of anchor”, also choose Target as “self”

Modify Tables

Highlight table, right click and choose Table Properties

Click on the table and menu at bottom becomes the table properties menu

Making web pages similar

Called Themes, have some already available, can choose from Theme task bar at right side

Called Templates, you can create a template fairly easily and use that template to produce other pages

Publishing web pages

Since you are directly connected to server, page publishes once it is saved

Prefers to have web page finished and then will publish with “ftp” protocol, does have a way for web site sharing (called PUT FILE )