Change to Ewisoft Website builder..

After years of using the venerable Microsoft FrontPage 2003, incompatibilities with Microsoft Outlook 2010 running in Windows 8 have forced me to change the way in which I construct and maintain this website. While the look has changed, the content is still the same, easy to understand at any level.

The move highlights the problems when running older software in a new environment. I was used to working with FrontPage, and it was easy for people like me who had no idea how to go about writing HTML. Unfortunately, it blocked a feature in Outlook 2010 which I rely upon daily, so it had to go.

So I moved website maintenance to my Toshiba Netbook, a 10.1" NB250 running Windows 7, and while it ran perfectly well, another problem was highlighted. Doing 'big' work on a tiny 10.1" screen is a nightmare.

My new Ewisoft Website Builder application works on the same principles as FrontPage, is Windows 8/8.1 compatible and produces up-to-date HTML code, but it is not possible to import the original pages. There are too many script errors, caused by FrontPage's HTML being too old and too 'Microsoft'. Web page HTML changed, FrontPage didn't, having lost support after 2003.

There have been programs that I really liked over the years, and I was loathe to change to new versions because the changes were sometimes really bad, features lost, but this is the way in the wonderful world of computing, and one has to suck it up or find a more acceptable alternative.

I have re-written more than a few of the original pages, and dropped a few which no longer have much relevance.