Hi, Garry!
As others have stated, Word and FrontPage will convert documents to
HTML. However, there are several things to consider here:
- FrontPage has been discontinued and replaced with an entirely
different and more current program called Expression Web. The most
recent version of FrontPage was released 8 years ago, and the webpages
is creates are designed to render properly only in Internet Explorer
5.5 (although code can be manually modified to improve compatibility
with later browsers). Since Internet Explorer 10 will be released this
year (not to mention that more than half of Web users no longer use
Internet Explorer at all), you're almost guaranteed to run into
display issues when people visit your webpage if you don't
sufficiently edit the converted HTML file.
- Word is a document publishing program, not a Web authoring program.
My friend Rob, when someone suggested converting Word documents to
HTML, suggested that the next step in that logic would be to point a
video camera to the computer screen and make a TV commercial; you
could do it, and it may work, but it's far from the best strategy,
because that's not what the program is designed for. HTML conversion
was an afterthought.
- Word has its own XML subset called VML that it interjects in many
places in HTML documents as soon as you edit them in Word. Since VML
is not currently supported by any modern browser, you may spend a lot
of time trying to learn a language that no longer has any practical
use. (Actually, Adobe Dreamweaver, the industry standard Web
publishing program, has a command specifically designed to clean up
Word's HTML and remove all VML; that tool got one of my converted Word
files down from over 600KB down to 60KB, though I was able to bring it
down to 28KB with some manual editing.)
My suggestion to you would be to find a good book, website, video
tutorial, or tutor to guide your HTML education, leaving Word out of
it. I'm not saying this as a criticism, but as a tip, coming from a
fellow Web designer who has experienced the same frustrations you are
facing now. If you're not inclined to purchase expensive software, use
simple free programs that let you edit the markup rather than editing
it themselves, like Notepad or gVim. Start with simple files and work
your way upwards. Then take on CSS. That's my suggestion, anyway.
Hope this helps!
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