Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

So it's going to be Office 2007.

Not surprising, really, as that's the name that had been rumoured since the very start of things...

However, it is interesting to note the demise of FrontPage, reborn as SharePoint Designer. With Microsoft building its new Office Live platform on top of SharePoint, it's going to be an important tool for helping build customised solutions for both inside and outside the business. The web designer baton is going to be passed to Expression Web Designer (previously codenamed Quartz), which looks to be much more of a competitor for Dreamweaver...

It's actually a little sad seeing FrontPage go. Back when it was a interesting looking personal web page design tool from a small company called Vermeer we were using it to design and manage pages at UK Online. It was the best thing around at the time (it was that or Adobe's Pagemill) if you didn't have the time to hand code every line of HTML...

But it's time to move on. I've been using Dreamweaver for years now, among many other design tools...