
Explorer lets you search and replace across your site and maintain a list of pages to be completed, then publish your site via FTP. FrontPage Explorer–one of the program’s two main components–gives you an overview of your site, displaying pages and the links between them hierarchically. Unlike simpler Web authoring programs such as Adobe Page Mill, FrontPage treats your site as a single entity. It’s too bad FrontPage’s editing tools aren’t more streamlined, because its site-based approach to Web authoring is otherwise outstanding. Despite admirable site-management tools and strong support for the latest Web technologies, Front.0 is bloated, cumbersome, and poorly integrated with other programs.

Microsoft’s long-awaited Web authoring suite is a colossal disappointment.

System requirements: Mac OS X 10.0 / 10.5
