Up to this point the FrontPage Editor excels. It is especially easy to learn, thanks to a clear and well graduated tutorial. Here things become less clear. So FrontPage makes it child's play to write these functions into the page but they won't work unless your server or ISP adopts proprietary Microsoft software to operate them. Microsoft proudly touts the fifty service providers using their extensions.
Trouble is, fifty is a micro-minuscule percentage of all providers.
All this powerful functionality within FrontPage is lost to all those whose ISP lack the free server extensions. Worse, the whole ActiveX constellation of very sophisticated and powerful products are likewise limited to a tiny group of sites. The same impediment hobbles my favorite part of this package, the FrontPage Explorer. My web site is not terribly complicated, but when I began the process of converting it to use frames, I was unable to hold details of the structure and link connections clearly in mind. Diagramming these on paper is helpful, but frequent changes during and after development require extensive revision of the diagram and, even with a small site, an annoying confusion of linking lines.