Hi there,
As a long term Frontpage wizzywig user and recently converted hand coder, I have to agree with bj in that frontpage produces poor bloated code. Much of this admittedly can be removed or lessened through the design of your site. But none the less the thing does produce extra tags that aren't required half the time.
For example; In one page alone I removed nearly 300 lines of html giberish. From 40kb to 10kb and the page looks better and loads faster and the SE's can now read it a little better - hopefully!
The good thing about frontpage though is the split view so you can type in your code and see how it looks on screen and all very quickly. It is also a quite nice working environment with little obscuring of the working environment. When working with code I like to colour coding; it works well for me.
So if you have been given a copy, use it. But try and write your own code and leave frontpage to upload your work to the web.
Cheers!
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