dang that's super interesting, I would love something modern with a webs view like that. It'd help with me relearning html but different every 5 years when i wanna do something and having to find broken links manually.
I fondly remember using some gui wizard from the late 90's or early 2000's that was also a static site generator. It was an entire genre of software back then and it's a shame today's tools are reserved for nerds with cli experience? :/
I think FrontPage is kind of a special case here, like Dreamweaver it's an HTML editor with various advanced site management features, rather than having static site generation as its main focus, or at least that's my perception.
Nerds actively campaigned against using tools like FrontPage, wittering on about shit like "but the code it generates is so bad!" as if the HTML formatting matters when no one is ever going to look at it directly anyway. It's like complaining you can't read an MP3 in a text editor.
However, I would say that it was a reasonable fear even if it wasn't for the right reasons. Treating HTML as a data interchange format instead of human-readable code pushes it out into a realm where it would've been much easier to capture in proprietary form only editable with expensive tools, something MS were actively trying to do.
I remember doing websites in school on Frontpage, I remember it having some workable templating stuff. I loved it.
if you did happen to have an IIS server it was super easy to deploy to, for the day, too
i bet there are graphical html editors out there in the same vein, that you could send to hugo. but i don't know any.
