Frontpage | 2003 Portable [2021]

When I open it, the internet feels small again. It feels like a hobby, not a job. If you run a tiny personal website and you hate Electron apps, dust off this old gem. Your flash drive has room.

That is why, 20 years later, I keep a copy of on my flash drive. What is FrontPage 2003 Portable? For the uninitiated, FrontPage was Microsoft’s WYSIWYG HTML editor. It was the successor to the "clunky" 90s versions and the last great version before Microsoft killed it off for Expression Web. frontpage 2003 portable

FrontPage 2003 had the perfect UI: Design, Split, Code. You could drag a button onto the "Design" tab, immediately see the HTML populate in the "Code" tab, and tweak it. No live-server confusion. No hot reload weirdness. Just HTML and CSS working exactly as you typed it. When I open it, the internet feels small again