As I’ve mentioned in the past my day job is for a web hosting company. (I’ll leave it to you to figure out which one.) Daily we have hundreds of people calling in for help with their email, FTP, VPS, dedicated servers, etc., etc., etc. We try to help these people as much as we can, and we do a lot to help people even when the issue isn’t on our end.
What amazes, astounds, and confuses the heck out of me are the number of people still using Microsoft FrontPage. (Don’t get me wrong, I don’t know why we allow FrontPage anymore either, yet we do.) Why are people using an outdated, unsupported, poorly written software that requires you to publish it’s control files first before ever considering connecting to the server?
Don’t get me wrong, way back in the day (before IE 4 or so) FrontPage was THE web design software…..OK, that’s a lie, notepad has always been the best, but for a beginner FrontPage was decent. Decent at best.
But that was many years ago, and while even Microsoft has moved on, the average web beginner has not? I know it was bundled with your outdated version of office, but really people, why? Vista doesn’t support it, XP barely allows it’s installation anymore. Most hosting companies have dropped their support too, so why, oh why are you still insisting that it works?
I guess I’ll never understand some people. I guess I’ll just not comprehend the need for someone to continue using a piece of software that (in internet years) has been dead for a long long time. But then people are still driving VW buses, and talking on Zack Morris style phones, so I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised that someone wants to use a software that even at it’s prime, was a piece of crap. Alas.
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Hey those vw buses are awesome man!! actually I never quite liked the shape of those things. And there is a site that takes the internals of the old brick style zach morris phones and updates them for use in lots of the normal phones and phone carriers… more as a joke then anything though.
[...] This was my first ever website design, and I unwittingly used Microsoft’s Frontpage for the task, teaching myself from scratch. Frontpage is, in my opinion, a poor piece of web design software, and is a program I’ll not be touching again. It adds some extra, un-needed coding to your site design, but don’t take my word for it – fellow blogger, mercutiom, adds four question marks when posing this: Why are you still using Frontpage???? [...]