Compatibility among Frontpage versions

[Victor Boris Arnold]

I have never used any version of Frontpage, so I'm not
familiar with it at all, and am considering taking a class
at a local college. The textbook for the class deals with
Frontpage 2002. I am wondering if there is any reason why
the 2003 version could not be used while doing exercises
from a 2002 version textbook. I understand that the 2003
version has some features not in the 2002 version, but
those would not be covered in a book about the 2002
version anyway, so that is not an issue. Also, for doing
basic Web sites, does Frontpage store files in any format
other than HTML? In other words, does it just store
completed projects as HTML files or are there other types
of files specific to Frontpage that it also stores?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

FP2003 the interface is different from that of FP2002, menu labels are named differently, etc.

Webs are not stored as projects, all files are stored individually and link to each other.


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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
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FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
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[Victor Boris Arnold]

Are the GUI changes drastic?

When you say "all files are stored individually", do you
mean that Frontpage just stores everything as individual
HTML (.htm or .html) files?

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FP2003 the interface is different from that of FP2002,

menu labels are named differently, etc.

Webs are not stored as projects, all files are stored

individually and link to each other.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

The overall concept of designing a site with FP is the same between versions, but the GUI is
different between versions, menu items have different names, and have been moved around.

Files are stored as:
..htm
..gif
..jpg
..mp3
..wav
etc.

The web is made up of items that link to each other.

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, WebCircle, MS KB Quick Links, etc.
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[Andrew Murray]

I have never used any version of Frontpage, so I'm not
familiar with it at all, and am considering taking a class
at a local college. The textbook for the class deals with
Frontpage 2002. I am wondering if there is any reason why
the 2003 version could not be used while doing exercises
from a 2002 version textbook. I understand that the 2003
version has some features not in the 2002 version, but
those would not be covered in a book about the 2002
version anyway, so that is not an issue. Also, for doing
basic Web sites, does Frontpage store files in any format
other than HTML? In other words, does it just store
completed projects as HTML files or are there other types
of files specific to Frontpage that it also stores?

Not really....it is an html editor so it saves pages as html. All the components
are 'internal' i.e. they are the server extensions that reside on the server -
all frontpage does is basically the 'front end' to that.

You can obviously save in other file formats like ASP for active server pages and
a few others, but generally they are straight html pages.

 

[Andrew Murray]

Yes, exactly - everything is stored as individual html files. You have to upload
all the files (or "publish" the site (which is basically the same thing - copying
the files to the web server including the scripts, external style sheets,
javascripts, asp pages, html files, and image files and anything else that is
'in' your site like pdf documents, videos, music files etc.