Front Page uses non W3C compliant coding. It has confused nearly an entire generation of web authors. For example, Chris mentions the "tool tip" text as ALT text. That is NOT alt text. That is called "Title".
ALT text is a W3C specification that will represent a graphic when viewing a web page without graphics capabilities. It is text that is an alternate to an image.
The "tool tip" text is called "Title" and even Front Page makes it a PITA to find unless you know it. And so, Internet Explorer is the only browser that renders ALT text as if it were TITLE.
If the coding is that important, then yes, you should be using Dreamweaver of GoLive. But for someone throwing together a website of family photos, who cares?
No different than pagelayout. For a school flyer, go ahead and use Publisher. For a newsletter or magazine heading to press, InDesign.
Anyway, we’re going way off on a tangent here and I really don’t want get into a big argument about it.
And so, Internet Explorer is the only browser that renders ALT text as if it were TITLE.
Interesting. Now that would’nt have concerned me twelve months ago. But recently, my log files show that the number of visitors to my site using IE has dropped from 97% down to 83% – with Firefox filling most of the gap!