popular Microsoft Office. FrontPage offers some powerful features as well as an attractive bundle of programs for Web developers, including Image Composer, a graphics program designed for creating images for the Web. FrontPage also includes Web components that you can use to add interactive features, such as a simple search engine or a discussion area, to your Web site. Web components work only if their corresponding programs reside on the Web server that you use, but many commercial service providers now offer FrontPage Web components. If you are migrating a site from FrontPage to Dreamweaver, first make note of any FrontPage Web components that you use, such as search engines or forms. Dreamweaver doesnt offer these same built-in features, and you wont be able Chapter 1: Introducing Your New Best Friend 29 to continue editing them in Dreamweaver the way you did in FrontPage. Although you dont need to alter the code for these components, thanks to the Dreamweaver respect for unique code, you cant edit FrontPages built-in components in Dreamweaver. If you use CSS or layers in FrontPage, you need to pay special attention to those features as you convert your site to Dreamweaver. Microsoft FrontPage isnt as good as Dreamweaver at creating high-end features that work in both Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, so you probably want to improve your code if you expect viewers to use any browser other than Internet Explorer. Because CSS and layers are more complex than HTML to code, you probably dont want to edit this code manually - converting from other editors to Dreamweaver can get pretty tricky. Tables can also get messy when you switch from one program to another. In some cases, you may find that the simplest solution is to delete the elements that you created in FrontPage and re-create them in Dreamweaver. (For more on CSS and layers, check out Chapters 8 and 9.) Microsoft Word Although Microsoft Word is a word processor and is not considered an HTML editor per se, it does have HTML output capabilities. As a result, you will likely encounter pages that have been created and saved in Microsoft Word at some point. The problems you find in HTML code generated from Word are similar to the problems generated from FrontPage: They both tend to create unusual and sometimes redundant code that deviates from HTML standards. Because Word-generated HTML is so common, Dreamweaver includes a special Clean Up Word HTML command. To use this feature, choose Commands? Clean Up Word HTML and then specify the code you want altered in the Clean Up Word HTML dialog box. When you use this feature, Dreamweaver removes excess code, which can help your pages load faster and work better in different browsers. After you use Dreamweaver to clean up Word HTML, you should not expect to edit the file in Word again. The code may be cleaner, but depending on the formatting options youve used, Word may no longer be able to read it. Adobe GoLive Adobe GoLive offers some great features for easy page design and a lot of similarities to Dreamweaver, so you should have little if any trouble migrating a site from GoLive to Dreamweaver. 30 Part I: Fulfilling Your Dreams If you have included any JavaScript actions in your pages using GoLive, you may not be able to edit them in Dreamweaver, but the actions should still work when the page displays in a browser. Likewise, CSS and other Dynamic HTML features created in GoLive do not always work well in Dreamweaver unless you know how to edit the code manually. If your page contains any actions or DTHML features, you may find re-creating the page in Dreamweaver your best option.