Editorial Review
The Internet offers unprecedented publishing possibilities, allowing anyone with a few hundred bucks and some spare time to bypass the middleman and reach readers, viewers, listeners, and buyers directly. If you want to tap into the power of Web publishing without staying up nights learning HTML, try Microsoft FrontPage 2000.
With its intuitive interface (especially if you've already done time with other Microsoft applications), you can soon be creating hyper-linked pages to your heart's content. Formatting, inserting graphics or sounds, and keeping track of all your pages is push-button simple--experiment all you want, and retreat when necessary (some color schemes can induce nausea). The package also allows easy use of ActiveX controls, plug-ins, and Java applets--as well as more traditional scripting features--to snazz up your site for the higher-bandwidth viewer.
The integration between Office software, new with the 2000 edition, means you can easily publish information stored in an Access database or Excel spreadsheet without suffering through the nightmare of cutting, pasting, and reformatting. Whether you want to sell Beanie Babies or find new readers for your poetry, Microsoft FrontPage 2000 will help you present yourself in the best possible light. --Rob Lightner
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Customer Reviews
Great for Newbies 
2001-06-19
Frontpage is great if you live in a MS bubble. You need not any knowledge of programming or development. For true web beginners that never want to learn how the internet works this is your "pay dirt". What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG), that's all folks. If you ever plan to learn real HTML, JavaScript, XML, DHTML, PHP, or if your wesite requires any kind of good database connectivity, forget MS Frontpage. If your into designing and developing dynamically generated websites or e-commerce enabled websites, look elsewhere. I would suggest taking a look at the free demo version of HomeSite 4.5 before you pad Mr. Gates pockets. What's with all the "vti" folders anyway, why can't they just use FTP like the rest of the world...
Blah 
2001-06-11
Microsoft just needs to stop. I bought this for my office at the request of my employer. Before I discovered Dreamweaver. It churns out too much proprietary code. As a result, if you later go back to edit a page with another WYSIWYG editor, things go kaplooey. Spend the money on Macromedia's Dreamweaver.
Still you need HTML! 
2001-05-04
Untill now i couldn't find web publishing program that give you clean html code. I used frontpage 98 for more than 1 year and i found it better than others like Dreamweaver. It has the same interface for all microsoft application which saves your time to understand each icon and its funtion. When i tried frontpage 2000 i like its interface more but i don't think there is a big differences between it and the old version 98. With all frontpage (98 and 2000) you need to know a bit about HTML in order to make clean-coded pages with less bugs. I like the integration between Office software with frontpage 2000 , in which you can easily publish information stored in an Access database or Excel spreadsheet. I hope Microsoft will improve manipulation with tables, because i really need to check the HTML code to organize any table i did in frontpage. Another thing, for arab users, you can not highlight the right arabic text in frontpage 2000 editor i.e if u try to highlight any word the editor will higlight another word!!! which is very annoying thing (you should use the HTML code to manipulate any word!!) So, Stick with your frontpage 98 if you want to design arabic pages.
Great for Beginning Web Designers 
2001-04-27
Microsoft Front Page 2000 is great for anyone just beginning to design personal web pages. It is also practical for more advanced use as well, but I feel it is better suited for smaller website design projects. It is very easy to cut, paste, arrange, and redesign existing web pages with FrontPage. FrontPage will allow even the newest beginner to website design to put together exciting web pages without even knowing how to use HTML code, although a basic knowledge of the HTML language would be helpful and can be learned through trial and error use with FrontPage. (Note: For anyone looking for the most up to date version of FrontPage, FrontPage 2002 is due out from Microsoft later this year.)
Excellent product------ No doubt about it. 
2001-04-10
Hi, Whoever says, Site designed with Frontpage will not show perfect in Netscape are not knowing FrontPage 2000 completely. Frontpage 2000 has settings for Browsers as well as servers. If you set these options, the you will not have single item on your site which will not show perfectly in Netscape. Front Page 2000 is a product for 90% of the peoples' requirement. If you have any question on Front Page 2000, you may ask me at hasitdave@yahoo.com Hasit Dave
VERY POWERFUL IF YOU KNOW HOW!! 2003-12-09
A lot of people have blasted this software, saying that it's a kid's toy and you can't actually do anything with it. One person even said it's easier to code in html. All these people, in my opinon, have a hate complex about Microsoft, and refuse to actually dip into the program and see it's powers, that you won't find until you spend more than 5 looking at it [and giving off].
This program, in the right and experienced hands, is incredibly powerful. I am a professional who uses both Frontpage and Dreamweaver on occassion, and I must say I prefer Frontpage. I find it more usable, and quicker, and produces the same results with greater ease.
Frontpage is a great program, for beginners, intermediates, and professionals. Sadly, it isn't suitable for people who don't want to learn. Or people who like to bring down good programs because they are too arrogant to learn how to use them properly.
Great if you want to get a site up and running quickly 2003-04-26
I was able to get a functional website up and running in an afternoon with Frontpage -- it is very intuitive and easy to use. It is even useful if you subsequently graduate to more complex software, like Dreamweaver, because you can establish the basic site with Frontpage and then edit the HTML with Dreamweaver to add further bells and whistles. No regrets at all, with this purchase.
Microsoft FrontPage 2000 2002-01-24
Microsoft FrontPage 2000 is a fantastic webpage creator/HTML editor. Before purchasing my copy of FrontPage 2000, I was using Adobe GoLive 5. What I especially liked about FrontPage 2000 was the ease of use. If you have ever used a Microsoft Office product before, you can learn FrontPage with relative ease. FrontPage brings templates (such as online forms) to you, which other products do not. There is a downside for FrontPage, and that is for some of the more advanced features the host server will need to have FrontPage extensions installed on it. You should check this with your host before purchasing. This is becoming less of a problem, however, because more and more hosts are installing these extensions. If you don't mind moving your site, you could always move it to a host with these extensions anyway. This is one product, I would highly recommend.
One of the Best Web Design Programs! 2001-12-04
I have had some pretty stinkers for web programs when I just started out. So I really wished I had gotten this first. When I got it I was really impressed how easy it was to learn. It was hard a little at first, but once I got the hang of using it I loved it. I have made a few great sites with it. My friend even designed a site for me and with my Frontpage program I was able to edit with Microsoft Frontpage to keep updating the site. And now it's one of my best sites! So I would definately get Frontpage 2000 if your just starting out or again if your a professional web designer :)
For Inexperienced User's Only! 2001-08-25
Microsoft makes some great technologies for the web. But Frontpage is a product aimed for the home user that should not have any place in professional web development. Frontpage extensions(a server side technology that does things like process forms) doens't work well when it does work and can be a pain to administer. Frontpage writes much IE specific code and will automatically put in features that only Frontpage will support. Microsoft has some great server side technologies such as ASP,SQL Server, and IIS.....but for an editor don't use Frontpage, look into something more professional such as Dreamweaver.
