Advancing to New Authoring Tools and Techniques

Sculptors start with Play-Doh and work their way up to marble. Like a sculptor, if you continue authoring, your needs will one day advance beyond Composer's capabilities.

The next few pages describe two of the leading Web authoring environments and related tools. Any of them would make a fitting next step for an experienced Composer author.

Microsoft FrontPage

If you've cut your authoring teeth in Composer, a logical step up is to FrontPage, the Microsoft Web authoring environment for Microsoft Windows. Figure 31.4 shows FrontPage in action.

Figure 31.4. FrontPage, the Microsoft commercial Web authoring software.

You can get FrontPage in some editions of Microsoft Office (bundled with Word, Excel, ...

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