FrontPage PowerEdit - Zap the FrontPage Bloated HTML Code

If you have ever been simultaneously thrilled with the power of Microsoft FrontPage but disgusted with the way it handles HTML, keep reading. Making the move to CSS? Let us introduce you to something that will change the way you look at Web development.

So, Web designers are faced with the dilemma of quickly developed sites with sloppy HTML or having to use the more complex (and tedious) tools to make a Web site that loads quickly.

That was until now.

That’s why we had FrontPagePowerEdit (FPE) created.

And when FrontPage 2003 was released, we spent more than a year upgrading it for even MORE POWER.

My name is Paul Colligan and I’m the Webmaster of FrontPageWorld.com, FrontPageTools.com, FrontPageTalk.com, FrontPage Cart (and a few others). More than a million FrontPage users have been through my FrontPage related site(s) over the years and they’ve told me what they like and don’t like about FrontPage. I get hundreds of pieces of email a day and manage a FrontPage Forum with as many opinions and complaints as you can possibly imagine.

I’m also a Microsoft MVP for FrontPage, have co-authored a number of published books on FrontPage (yes, that's me on Special Edition Using Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003), and make a living on Web sites that I’ve created with FrontPage.

I know FrontPage.

If you use FrontPage, I bet you good money I know what your biggest complaint is.

It’s that bloated HTML code, isn’t it?

It’s that tag they put in every single one of your FrontPage pages, isn’t it?

You know I’m right.

If you're a FrontPage 2003 user, you know that the code is cleaner, but you have to clean on a page by page basis. Who wants that?

And, let's admit it, it still ain't what you're looking for.

We built FrontPage Power Edit. We tested it. We even ran it past a few of our top users and vendors to make sure they liked it as well.

It fixes that HTML issue. It fixes that Microsoft branded tag issue. It fixes those things that drive people crazy.

It provides a way to strip your code of HTML so you can make the move to CSS in a heartbeat.

And it does it with the click of a button.

Take a look at this traditional code produced by FrontPage in this extremely SHORT example:

FrontPage Power Edit reduced this SIMPLE EXAMPLE 46% of the original size! Imagine using this on a long Web page or on an entire Web site.

Not only does FPE do something that every FrontPage user needs, it also has a cool little feature that will bug the heck out of the people who want to copy your HTML to figure out how you do the cool little things that you do.

With one click of a button, FPE will edit all of your HTML so that it is nothing but a single line of HTML code. They’ll spend hours with the left/right scroll screen if they want to figure it out. Obviously, that feature won't work with Script but it works great with HTML. Don't worry - FrontPagePowerEdit will keep your scripts intact!

Once you install this plug-in, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it. This simple tool will do things FrontPage never did. You now can be proud of the HTML you’ve produced and those peeking at your HTML will have no reason to think twice about your site.

So, as you can see above, this is a plug-in for FrontPage that will let you, with a simple click:

Is it hard to use? Look at the screen above. Does it look hard? That's all there is.

Does it work? Look at the example above again. Take a look at the HTML for this page if that isn't enough. We made a few tweaks to let you see the examples above - but you get the idea.

You need FrontPage 2000 or better to use it. If you don't have FrontPage 2000 or better, you need to upgrade much more than this.