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by onion2k 3088 days ago
I used Frontpage, and Frontpage Extensions on the server side. I used HoTMetaL, Dreamweaver, and a few other WYSIWYG editors too. They were good, but nothing quite beat Notepad (or BBEdit if you were on a Mac). I remember Adobe Pagemill was really handy for doing the same changes across hundreds of files too.

As fun as it was then I don't want to go back.

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I used Frontpage for a good while (I made a nice chunk of change off of that app), but switched to Dreamweaver as I started doing more and more PHP.

But either way, I always loved those programs (and was really irritated by the elitists who said you couldn't make decent sites unless you used only notepad; those training wheels helped me become good at something that all of my "notepad-only" friends have all given up on).

But I agree, as fun as it was, I really have no desire to go back to that world.