Oh man, FrontPage. I haven’t heard that name in 20 years. I got started learning how to make web pages in FrontPage and then branched out to editing HTML in notepad, aided with my trusty copy of HTML for Dummies.
I remember thinking I was hot shit after switching from FrontPage to Macromedia Dreamweaver for my geocities site... those truly were the days :D
no so complex..
just everything that a online wyswyg editor like tinymce can do, saving as a single HTML file instead
Frontpage Express was an IE activeX control with contentEditable set to true. There was plenty of functionality around building <table> or whatever but comparing it to TinyMCE is absolutely right. Just 6 years before FckEditor was a thing.
Frontpage Express was basically WordPad that saved HTML instead of RTF/DOC.