yes, ms front page can be used to create web pages, but is generally frowned upon by most in the business. i can't speak for current versions of front page as i haven't used them, but older versions created very poor quality bloated code.
You can create passably decent web sites with frontpage, but hands down Dreamweaver is the king.
I think you can disable the use of the Front Page extensions(an option to the effect of host doesn't support frontpage extensions) and this will make you code much cleaner if you must use frontpage.