I kind of hate to admit I like this product, but I do. I've had a lot of problems with Microsoft software, so I hoped to find something I like better. But I couldn't. I tried Adobe GoLive. I tried Dreamweaver. But FrontPage won out.

The good:

I've found it can generate pretty complex pages with little trouble. It is very intuitive. you can count on it to create a page that will almost always look the way you expect in recent versions of Internet Explorer. It is really pretty amazing at it's ability to cut and past sophisticated things like forms, JavaScript functions, Macromedia Flash code, and the like. It can handle inserting multimedia like streaming video and audio well. It really does a lot more than I expected and it usually handles it very well.

FrontPage automatically highlights misspelled words.

The bad:

It does sometimes generate a lot of code. Sometimes if you cut and paste blocks of text, FrontPage will generate huge streams of code like this:

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If this happens, you may know it because when you type, the letters appear on the screen at an incredibly slow rate. You can switch into "HTML mode" and delete the garbage.

If you open a page and images are still loading off a server, if you start typing or modifying your page, it can crash the program. If you have other pages open in FrontPage that you haven't saved, you lose them.

FrontPage can add 'amp;' to every '&'. If you use affiliate programs like LinkShare, this can mess up the code for banner adds.

When you save a page, the program doesn't prompt you to add a title. That's why you may have seem lots of pages titled "New Page 1"; that's what FrontPage automatically titles it.

But all told, once you get used to these quirks, things go pretty smoothly. I hate to say it, but this has become one of my favorite products.