Why Front Page Should Not Be Used By Adult Webmasters
By
Mitzy
If you are reading this, Front Page has already done it's job. The only thing Front Page is good for in Adult Webmastering is to give us the confidence to get into this business. You found our board, and now that it has done it's job, it's time to get rid of it.
Why? Well that's what this page is all about.
Front Page and other "What you see is what you get" software, like Dreamweaver and others, write the code for you based on how you want the page to look. In Page View. The result of that is very code-heavy pages.
Front Page is the worst. It adds useless code that you don't need that adds up in Bandwidth and Load Time. I will give you an example: look at this page in view source. (right click and click on "view source") Here is the same page written in Front Page: click here. View source in that page. Now look at that code. See the difference? Now it may not seem like much, but every character you use on a page adds to the amount of bandwidth used to view the page. Every little bit adds up. Now right click on the pages again and click on properties. You can see that the file size on the page written in Front Page is almost triple of the one hand coded. And this is just a simple page. With multiple tables and images it's even worse.
Another thing about Front Page, is that it thinks it's smarter than you so it adds code where you don't need it. When you put in your sponsor code in the hyperlink box, and press enter, Front Page changes the code. An "&" turns into "& amp". Well, that negates your code and you won't get credit for any signups. Yes, you can go into the source and change it, but if you add anything else to the page in page view, Front Page changes it back. That alone is a good reason to get rid of the software.
But yes, there are more reasons, writing in Front Page, seems to me to make you pages look clunky. You don't have as much control over the way they look than if you write your own code. Also, if it does not look the way you want it, it can take hours to change just one color in a hyperlink, because you don't know HTML.
After a while it gets very aggravating. If you use Front Page long enough, you will give it up on your own. Like I did. But that's not recommended. If you use it as long as I did, (I'm hard-headed) you will already know a little code because you had to go into the page and change things so often.
