FrontPage Express != FrontPage
Ok, guys. First off, this was FrontPage Express. That's what comes with IE. It's nifty neat little tool, but not exactly the most useful thing on earth. And for old coders like me, well, it makes ugly code.
From what I understand here, we have a situation where someone has decided they need to get a web site up and they are trying to rush one and get it up.
Do yourself a big favour - don't rush it.
One of the keys of having a website is that it is available 24/7. It represents your company all the time. Which means, good or bad, however the site looks is how you look. That's seriously important. :chinese2:
Now, I realise that you don't want to spend lots an lots of money on a website. You'd like to be able to maintain it yourself.
So here's what I'd recommend, in order:
1.) Get a designer to design your first site. For all you know, the people who designed logos, ads, etc. for you before, can do web work. Hey, they may even do it for very little charge.
2.) Learn how HTML works. Use Notepad, not FrontPage express. I'm not saying you'll always code by hand, but you really need to be a good coder. Heck, don't even bother with HTML.. See if you can get a book on XHTML. I know that Molly Holzschlag writes some good XHTML stuff. (Huge tomes, but well worth it.) Her website is
www.molly.com.
3.) Analyse how other sites work. My personal home page looks very simple, took about three days to design. It's functional, gives people what their looking for, and they're happy. That's not how businesses run, though. Used to work for a low-cost webshop. Check out
www.ctiwebdesign.com and see what idea you could glean from there.
4.) Decide on some tools. Macromedia makes probably the best web tools around, especially now that they merged with Allaire. HomeSite is my favourite hand-coding programme (which reminds me, I need to get version 5.). Dreamweaver will make FrontPage studio look like such a lousy hack job, you'll wonder why you ever considered it. (Oh, and Macromedia has free trial downloads, so you can test the programmes out.)
Enough rant. I hope that helps. If you need more, drop me a line. :wink2: