:cry: NOO!! Don't do it dude! FrontPage is the most evil of evil web poop.
For professional web developers\designers yes. It gets tedious when you try to create complex designs. Forget about complicated templates too. Layers? Ha! When your design starts getting a little too technical, the code it generates behind the scenes starts deteriorating.
However, it will most likely not be the case for her. She wants to do a basic web site and doesn't want to be overwhelmed by learning so many unnecessary things. She's probably got some Word experience, and going to FrontPage is just a logical step. It's easy to use and generates decent code for simple web sites. That's why I highly recommend it.
For any professional designer I would recommend Dreamweaver MX 2004\TopStyle 3.1\Photoshop CS. Best combo ever.
Personally, I recommend you stay with Dreamweaver. It has so many features that other authoring tools don't have. Then again, all those features may be overwhelming. For people starting off, for those who don't want to be web developers/designers, I recommend FrontPage. It's very easy to use because it resembles Word, which you've probably used. FrontPage doesn't have as many features as Dreamweaver, but certainly has more than PageBuilder.
CF_Jobs (:)) are still out there, but nowhere as near as Java/.NET related jobs. If you do a job hunt on dice.com, monster.com, and many other IT job web sites, you'll see that CF is not that strongly in demand compared to other SUN/Microsoft technologies. It's a shame too. CF is such a powerful app server and its CFML language makes it so much easier to develop than JSP, ASP.NET, PHP, and Perl, that you can really save a lot on development costs. I hate to say it, but it's a shame the ColdFusion Web App server isn't free. I believe if it was free, it would have an even greater reputation than PHP and thus give a greater need for CF developers. Every time I tell my clients their options, they always choose either ASP.NET/Classic ASP or PHP because they're free. They never think about development costs even though I tell them. In my eyes, PHP will always dominate web applications for small to mid-sized businesses, and ASP.NET/Java for mid to large-sized businesses. As far as CF, I've only seen it in big-sized businesses/organizations. Even then, they were mostly used for intranet software.
By the way, CFML is my favorite language, but currently I'm stuck with PHP. Soon I will either move to C#+SQL Server or Java+Oracle since they have the most earning potential I believe.
Your IT classes sound more like my computer science classes. IT schools have programs that teach technical support/networking, which seems to be what you want. If all you're doing is programming, then you seem to be enrolled in a computer science program or a programming track of IT. What do I think you should do? Well, this topic has been beaten to death by many, including myself, so I'll refer you to some other threads where you'll see what others think:
I'm sorry, but I have to vent. My wife has had me watching this Wade Robson Project for the last 6-8 weeks or so. The show is about finding and making a great dancer, out of a TON of people. Well tonight was the final show, down to the last 4 contestants. Now granted, all of the dancers were far better dancers than I could/will ever be. By no means am I trying to take credit away from anyone. But of the 4 finalists . . . the worst dancer won. UNBELIEVABLE . . .no I'm not exaggerating . . . the worst one of the 4. I thought it would be between 2 great dancers, Michelle and Twitch. But as the story goes, the person who won, did so not because of dance talent (the premise of the show), but because of his cookie-cut looks. Its too bad people can't look and see true talent.
Well thanks for listening. I appreciate it.
whhhewwww................
It's ok. I hear you loud and clear. Unfortunately this world is like that. Good looking people are always given special attention. It's in our nature I think to do this. This is especially true in the entertainment field where your good looks count for a lot. If you don't have it in that department, you have to really be good, above all others to stand a chance. Unfair world, my friend.
I was waiting for a call, so I decided to put together pages 1-15. Enjoy:
once upon a time there was a great disaster,called linux security. Buffer overflow killing made me horny And so I took my flight To the zone where nothing is going to happen, except I shall eat tainted cheese and die morbidly. Upon reaching the pyramid of power that smelled stinky and tasted funny I licked it it was disgusting yet ironically refreshing. Something started to fall from above and landed beside me, on my briefcase full of Windows repair books that were useless dreams devolving quietly into the realm of everlasting nothingness. But then suddenly, there appeared a looming shadow of Giant angry Klingons who all wanted nothing but sex but they screwed each other furiously Happily Ever After. But before this, ,was how wierd they got here Through the portal of everlasting darkness and arms outstretched with swords in hand they crawled silently screaming. Suddenly I heard a loud boom. I jumped. Hitting my knee on the Xserve rackmount server and thinking about excruciating pain I traveling through time to another dimension where I found a pornographic magazine Until one day when I went painfully, crawling naked into an abyss I suddenly realized there floated a piece of crap which looked delicious but not hungry enough to eat and last for all eternity I stopped, reflecting upon my past experiences and did something stupid but I don't remember now every moment that ended …
