Using Publisher 2007

[k.hofstetter]

I was looking over past posts and thought that I saw something that indicated
that using Publisher to create an entire web site wouldn't produce the best
results. Is there another program that I should be using? Our current
host/designer makes it sounds like she creates everything in html code. In
Publisher, all you have to do is insert text boxes, pics. etc. It seems too
easy?

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

It is too easy that's why you should do it - unless you want really basic
and not well supported crossbrowser webs. Publisher is really a dtp program
that can output html but probably shouldn't.

Dreamweaver
Frontpage or it's successor Expression Web

are top 2-3 editors



|I was looking over past posts and thought that I saw something that
indicated
| that using Publisher to create an entire web site wouldn't produce the
best
| results. Is there another program that I should be using? Our current
| host/designer makes it sounds like she creates everything in html code.
In
| Publisher, all you have to do is insert text boxes, pics. etc. It seems
too
| easy?

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

should not do it



| It is too easy that's why you should do it - unless you want really basic
| and not well supported crossbrowser webs. Publisher is really a dtp
program
| that can output html but probably shouldn't.
|
| Dreamweaver
| Frontpage or it's successor Expression Web
|
| are top 2-3 editors
|
|
|
| ||I was looking over past posts and thought that I saw something that
| indicated
|| that using Publisher to create an entire web site wouldn't produce the
| best
|| results. Is there another program that I should be using? Our current
|| host/designer makes it sounds like she creates everything in html code.
| In
|| Publisher, all you have to do is insert text boxes, pics. etc. It seems
| too
|| easy?
|
|

 

[Mike Koewler]

If you are looking for a decent, inexpensive (about $70 or so) program
that is WYSIWYG and has an easy learning curve, try WebPlus from Serif.
It has great cross-browser support, can download web pages (not
perfectly but decently), has built-in support for forms - so you don't
need FrontPage Extensions. It's evolved over the years from a DTP
program to a web page design one so it is easy for someone use to DTP to
learn.

Mike