Debbie’s Blog

I hear this a lot from people “My web hosting company stop supporting FrontPage”. Now what do I do? Do I need to go out and buy a different web editor?

The answer is No. You can still continue to use FrontPage to design your HTML web sites.

What you can not do is use some of the built in script features that are in FrontPage. Also known as web bots.

They are:

One click Publishing feature

Guest books
Image Maps
Feedback forms
Search boxes
Photo Gallery

FrontPage still works well as an HTML editor. There is one feature that is used regularly and that is the “Include Page” that option you can still use in FrontPage and FTP up with your other pages.

If you need a guest book, feedback/contact form or search box there are plenty of free scrips out there that work well for these requirements.

So instead of using the one click publishing option just FTP up your pages to your web host. While this may be new to the beloved publishing feature in FrontPage going the FTP upload route is very easy and soon you will not even miss the automatic publishing feature.

For those that still enjoy Microsoft products they have created another editor called Expression Web that has a small resemblance to FrontPage. But some may find it not as user friendly and it is CSS based.

What you will need to do is find a FTP program that you are comfortable using. Coffee Cup has one that is easy to use. Firefox also has a fee FTP program.

So if your hosting company tells you they do not support FrontPage what they are saying is they have upgraded their web servers and stopped using the software by Microsoft that allow the use of  FrontPage server extensions for publishing and built in frontpage scripts.

So If FrontPage server extensions are not available on your hosting web server, you can still use FrontPage to develop your web pages.