Oddly enough, FrontPage Express requires the user manually type in links instead of selecting from a file list. Tables are an essential function for all intermediate HTML users. Both editors handle table creation and editing well. Just like in a Word table, the user can select an entire column or row, and then make global changes. This makes setting column and row widths available in FrontPage Express, whereas in Composer, the user has to edit each cell width individually.
Composer automatically opens a text editor specified by the user.
Notepad or WordPad are fine. In FrontPage Express, an internal text editor opens. Express also has menu commands for inserting video and sound. Composer does not have these advanced features. Netscape users will have to open an external text editor or the internal tag editor to type HTML commands for the various form objects and for adding sound and video.