Another part with FrontPage is that the host you plan to use has to have support for FrontPage - normally you will find a small message on the host telling you this, as here (if not specified, just ask the web host).
Due to the "famous" html problems FrontPage had before, I have to admit that I'm still a bit sceptical to FrontPage (but don't worry if you got it - even IE turned good in the end...).
So left with Dreamweaver and Fusion, which is best?
Okay I could take the easy way out and say "that's up to you", but that is just not good enough, so let me define the background for my evaluation:
I don't pretend to be an html guru, still I know enough to know to evaluate editors as basic tools. Remember, this topic (Professional Travel) is not written for web design professionals, but for travel professionals and travelers and other html users who see the result of web design as main focus.
Yes, a travel professional of today should know the Internet, but s/he doesn't have to become a html guru to bring his or her profession online.
For Dreamweaver I find one feature truly unique - and that is the option of working directly in the raw code along split view (split view between a visual editor screen and the raw code). That alone is not unique, but the option of clicking any place in the WYSIWYG editor part of the screen and see the insert point in the code field go directly to correct place. A feature I never found in any other editor. If one work with raw code, this option save tons of time in searching in large code pages.
Still, apart from this feature I would personally choose an editor as HomeSite or the new amazing version of HomeSite's new contender: - SpiderWriter. These are both html coding based with an added feature of a "light" version of a WYSIWYG editor window (I will come back to SpiderWriter in a coming article). By all means, Dreamweaver is a brilliant html editor - but if one need direct html coding I would as said not question to put my investment in SpiderWriter or HomeSite, and not DreamWeaver (the price tag for DreamWeaver of around USD 260.00, being one of the reasons here).
What is then the reason I end up with NetObject's Fusion as my strongest recommendation?
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