From: "Geo." 

Frontpage was never for web developers, it was for end users who didn't
want to learn how to code web apps.

Geo.

"Mike N."  wrote in message
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> On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:18:11 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote:
>
>>Why in the world is MS discontinuing frontpage in favor of something that
>>can't even code a simple web form?
>
>  The whole FrontPage server extensions thing is definitely gone, and just
> as well since they weren't installed on most of the servers I had to work
> with anyway.
>
>  The real strength is when combined with Visual Studio.  The web guy does
> his thing with tweaking each pixel while the back end guys juggle data.
> They have clearly defined interfaces and don't interfere with each other.
> In the end, the web site works as desired.
>
>   There is also a whole category of 'microtwip' web designers who have
> been hand coding this stuff and are happy to automate some of it.

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