This Page Was Made in Microsoft FrontPage 2003
Yep, the page you're currently reading was written in Microsoft FrontPage 2003. You can imagine this as a sort of spiritual successor to my "This Page Was Made in Windows XP". I'm doing this partly for fun, and partly to see if FrontPage 2003 is actually a good enough editor for me to use on a daily basis. You see, for the past few months, I've mostly been using Notepad to make the pages on my site. This is because some real life circumstances forced me to switch from my beloved Linux Mint to Windows 10 (the professional world is unfortunately dominated by Microsoft Windows, with a sprinkle of Mac OS X). I tried to hold out for a while, I really did, but eventually I had to succumb and make the switch to Windows. Of course, I wasn't going to give up just like that. Even after switching to Windows, I stuck with LibreOffice for a good while, but I sadly had to cave in and download Microsoft Office as well. But even then, I wasn't going to just lie down and admit total defeat. I was recommended Office 365, but I used it for a whole 5 seconds before uninstalling it and downloading Office 2010 instead. Apparently Office 365 has some sort of account system with it, I guess to "sync" across devices or whatever advertising gimmick they parade around nowadays is. Seriously!? Can't one piece of modern software not be some always-online spyware-ridden subscription service??? Office 2010 is good enough anyway. Compatibility isn't really much of an issue, and I'd have to be an idiot to fall for some security exploit. I was really hoping I could use Office 97, and I can't deny Office 2007 looks beautiful (elegance was just about the one thing Windows Vista got right), but Office 2010 is what works best for me right now. I'm not ditching LibreOffice though, I'll use it when I can—that being mostly for personal projects, I still have a lot of old files in .odt format. What does any of this have to do with FrontPage 2003? Well, while installing Office 2010, I kind of just remembered that the Microsoft FrontPage line existed. I briefly talked about FrontPage 2000 a long time ago, and I even still have it installed on an old Windows XP virtual machine, but I never really got comfortable with it. Maybe one day I'll try it again though... So, here we are now. You're reading an article written on a 25 year old piece of abandonware. It's actually a little sad when you think about it. I wonder how many people learned HTML and web design, or just had some simple fun, through FrontPage? Good times long gone... I don't know if I'm going to be using FrontPage from now on, or if I'm just going to go back to Notepad. So far it's been working well, I haven't experienced any sudden crashes or failures while working, and I do like the UI. But while it's nice to have a dedicated HTML editor, do I really need it when Notepad is good enough? Also, the "Preview" function on this is broken. For whatever reason, FrontPage has trouble with image percentages (might be an HTML5/HTML4 thing but I'm not knowledgeable enough on that to know). Adding any percentage to an img attribute causes the preview to break. The preview also isn't one-to-one with what's displayed on the browser—fonts are smaller on the preview than on a browser—so that could prove to be an issue in the near future. [Go Back] Last Updated: September 13, 2025 Page Created: September 13, 2025 |