Re: The future of FrontPage / FrontPage Extensions

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I'm pretty sure that as EW matures the development team will replicate a lot
of the features users liked in FrontPage but do it with asp.net (maybe even
php also).
there's lots of places on the net where you can get free scripts and
tutorials on how to do things like you're mentioning.
as far as PHP goes, don't be afraid of it as if it were some kind of cheap
freeware. while it is free, it's very very good.

HTH

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"ChuckN" <Chuck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am not a professional web site developer. I have found FrontPage very
easy to work with and developed on our website which was very successful.

We recently used a website developer to design our new website which is
also very well done. I will be maintaining and updating the website.

Our website developer doesn't seem to understand IIS or FrontPage, and
wanted to use PHP to develop the simple data entry page similar to what we
had used for years with FrontPage. Although we installed PHP on the
server and PHP worked, his data entry page didn't work. I used FrontPage
to recreate his page using FrontPage extensions and it works great. He
was surprised FrontPage could do that.

I recently upgraded our software to Expression Web. It seems to be very
good software for a professional, but is not very user friendly for the
"casual" user like me.

My questions are these:

I understand FrontPage extension will no longer be supported after 2009.
Is that true?

Using a "Form" and "Forms Fields" in FrontPage and Expression Web is
fairly easy. Why isn't something similar available in Expression Web that
does not use FrontPage Extensions if those are being phased out because of
compatibility problems?

It seems there should be a wizard or some other application that will
create a more compatible web application script to do the same thing. Is
there some place I can go to get access to scripts or applications that
can easily be incorporated into our website to allow us to achieve the
more basic applications?

Is PHP the way to go? I am wary of freeware - particularly when new
operating systems are released, how long will it take for freeware to be
updated to be compatible?

Any recommendations/comments would be appreciated.



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