Dreamweaver.
 

I'm going to vote for Dreamweaver. I use it on my laptop, work, and at home.
I found frontpage writes crappy code.

Ditto on the comments about Dreamweaver - I just upgraded to Dreamweaver MX 2004 and it works great.

I recommend this book if you are a Dreamweaver beginner:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg.../-/0672325934/

Sams Teach Yourself Dreamweaver MX 2004 in 24 Hours
by Betsy Bruce
Sams; 2nd edition (October 13, 2003)

It can be a bit overwhelming for a new user!

Interesting thread. Any suggestions for Mac or Mac/Unix. I would like to develop pages on a server on my Powerbook (presumeably Apache) and then transfer then to our Linux host (definately Apache).

Dreamweaver (starting with the MX version, and before with the ultradev edition) allows you to set up a test server as part of your configuration. This allows you to upload your code to a similarly configured server (or spot on your server) that you can obscure of password protect while you're testing.

Now, of course, the test server requires access to the server you'll be testing on. If you want to make your local machine be your testbed, you can install many popular web platforms on your computer. If you want to be specific, apache can be installed on your windows of mac os x machine, though usually not necessary. PHP, Perl, MySQL, etc are all available to be installed on many platforms, including Windows and Mac OS X. It may take a bit of tinkering with the configuration and install, but it is doable.

The only thing I would be wary of is just developing the pages on your mac and not testing how they render on other platforms... make sure anything "special" you throw together gets tested for your target audience platform(s).

One more thing you can do is install Virtual PC and create a virtual machine with windows or linux, and then "upload" and "test" on that "server".

time to face facts dude - 80% of the GOOD sites you see out there are made with dreamweaver. 100% of the crappy sites you see are made with frontpage. Dont even bother with FP if you plan on learning more about creating sites .

For the record, I was a web developer for 5 years and used macromedia homesite

If this is your first crack at making websites, go with FrontPage.

But I would suggest going to the latest version, it is one of the few MS products out there that there is significant gain with each version ;)

Here are a few other threads regarding FrontPage

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...ight=frontpage

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...ight=frontpage

Make sure you customize the look after you have mastered it, otherwise it looks too generic ;)