Any freeware compatible with FrontPage?

[Melvin Melvin]

Is there a freeware program available that can edit a web site created by
Microsoft FrontPage?

Thanks

 

[JunkMonkey]

Sort of. . .I'm going to keep this simple since I don't know how strong your
web development knowledge is, so please forgive me if I sound as if I'm
talking down to you.

FrontPage generates HTML, so any good HTML editor can open, manipulate, and
save a FP generated web page. The problem arises on how much the original
developer relied on FP unique features by using the FrontPage extensions.
As far as I know, no regular HTML editors have the ability to recognize or
interact with these functions, so you couldn't a different editor to create
a FrontPage website. (If there is something new out there, I'm sure someone
will let us know!)

On the other hand, you could use any good editor to open a FP webpage and
convert it to a conventional webpage.

 

[Christopher Jahn]

FrontPage generates HTML, so any good HTML editor can
open, manipulate, and save a FP generated web page. The
problem arises on how much the original developer relied on
FP unique features by using the FrontPage extensions. As
far as I know, no regular HTML editors have the ability to
recognize or interact with these functions, so you couldn't
a different editor to create a FrontPage website. (If there
is something new out there, I'm sure someone will let us
know!)

Something else to be aware of: those FrontPage extensions can
only be rendered by Internet Exploder, so those of us running
Netscape, Mozilla or Opera can't view the page, or at least not
completely.

On the other hand, you could use any good editor to open a
FP webpage and convert it to a conventional webpage.

And run any web page you create through a validator to make sure
the code is good. See the second link in my Sig.






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[M.L.]

Sort of. . .I'm going to keep this simple since I don't know how strong your
web development knowledge is, so please forgive me if I sound as if I'm
talking down to you.

FrontPage generates HTML, so any good HTML editor can open, manipulate, and
save a FP generated web page. The problem arises on how much the original
developer relied on FP unique features by using the FrontPage extensions.
As far as I know, no regular HTML editors have the ability to recognize or
interact with these functions, so you couldn't a different editor to create
a FrontPage website. (If there is something new out there, I'm sure someone
will let us know!)

On the other hand, you could use any good editor to open a FP webpage and
convert it to a conventional webpage.

Open the FrontPage HTML page in OpenOffice and save it as an HTML
document from there. The result will be an HTML page with more
conventional HTML source code. Beware that sometimes the changes are
not for the better.