Tools to Build Web Pages
Browser Editors: 90-lb weaklings

Tools to Build Web Pages 

• Office Suites

• Browser Editors:
  • Front Page Express 
  • Netscape Composer 

• Standalone Editors

• Other Tools

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Benefits:

• Comes integrated with a browser so you can launch the editor/browser easily.
• WYSIWYG editing.
• Easy to learn. 
• Very good table support.
• Easy to insert HTML tags that the editor doesn't know about 

Deficiencies:

• Very limited powers (e.g., no image maps, frames,...).
• Need external image editor if you want to create diagrams.
• No site management tools.
• Somewhat buggy!!
• Limited subset of HTML 3.2. No HTML 4, DHTML, CSS, etc.
• No equations
• Somewhat confusing (e.g., in one program, an HTML anchor is a 'bookmark' in the other a 'target'. But, bookmarks and targets are terms used in browsers and HTML for something else.)
• Still need to learn some HTML.

How you use them:

• WYSIWYG editors designed with web-page creation in mind

MS FrontPage Express

• Optional add-on for Internet Explorer 4
• No spell checker! 
• Abysmal on-line documentation 
• Web-bots, Marquee for special affects.
• In addition to WYSIWYG, also a color-coded code editor for even more power to add power HTML code.
• Available from www.microsoft.com/ie/ 

Note: I used FPE to create this page (hence, why there might be some speling mistakes ;-{

Netscape Composer

• Optional add-on for Netscape Communicator
• Spell checker
• In addition to WYSIWYG, user can specify a code editor (one doesn't come with Composer).
• Not a well-integrated system.
• MUCH better documentation!
• Available from www.netscape.com

Note: I used Composer to fix most of the speling errors :-)

My Choice/suggestions:

No true winner.  Composer (if you use Netscape), FPE (if you use IE4).