Re: FrontPage Extensions - are they worth it?

From: Susan (dsnsacree_at_msn.com)
Date: 01/24/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 07:33:07 -0600

Some things will work without the FP extensions. But in my experience, many
problems occur when you download from your remote site. You lose your
Navigation hierarchy, and thus what is dependent on it.

I maintain some simple sites for non-profits and I have to keep a copy of
what I uploaded to the remote. I then make a second copy of this copy to
modify. In case I mess up and want to get back to the original I can use my
first copy. I cannot download from my remote site without things being
messed up.

Susan
"Andrew Murray" <admurray@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
news:u0j68NhAFHA.4044@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> You would be missing quite a bit from not using frontpage extensions.
>
> In a nutshell, some of the FP features to use frontpage extensions include
>
> Include Pages
> Shared Borders
> Formtoemail submission
> Database driven sites
> Sharepoint services (although this is also independent of FP, FP makes
> some use of Sharepoint in its features)
> Dynamic templates
> Site-search engine
>
> to name but a few.
>
> However, it is the individual's choice. Anything you want to do such as
> send an email from an HTML form can be done with third party scripts.
> Basically anything FP offers can be done with other scripts (search
> engines, include pages, form submission, database content etc - Frontpage
> can do all or most of these in its own right.).
>
>
> If you publish to a server with extensions, you need to publish by
> frontpage http:// mode (look up Help in FP for further info).
>
>
>
>
> "Rich" <Rich@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B2277040-3C06-4A1D-A08C-CCE0AC4EFE24@microsoft.com...
>> I've just created a new domain and the basic hosting package I will use
>> does
>> not support FrontPage extensions. If I choose this package what I am
>> losing
>> in terms of FrontPage functionality?
>>
>> Also I will need to upload my current website that does have Extensions
>> to
>> the new domain. Are there any files I need to exclude if I go for the
>> basic
>> package?
>>
>> --
>> Rich
>
>

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