DWTs and FP Extensions

[David Kirk]

I'm in the midst of redesigning my site around a series of dynamic web
templates and have run across a problem that makes the exercise pointless:
with Front Page extensions installed (as I have on my ISP's server) changes
made to the dwt will not propogate to all of the pages linked to it unless
all of the pages are open at the time changes to the DWT are made. (There
are other equally absurd workarounds.) With an active forum component that
has thousands of pages, this is a completely impractical workaround!

So I'm wondering what will happen to my site, which only uses FP extensions
as far as I know in a photo gallery and contact form, if I simply turn off FP
extensions. I recognize that I'll need to lose the gallery and the form so
I'll have to searching for alternatives. But will everything else "work?"
Will I still be able to open the entire Web in FP and/or Expression Web?
Will anything "break?"

 

[Helpful person]

I'm in the midst of redesigning my site around a series of dynamic web
templates and have run across a problem that makes the exercise pointless:
with Front Page extensions installed (as I have on my ISP's server) changes
made to the dwt will not propogate to all of the pages linked to it unless
all of the pages are open at the time changes to the DWT are made.  (There
are other equally absurd workarounds.)  With an active forum component that
has thousands of pages, this is a completely impractical workaround!

So I'm wondering what will happen to my site, which only uses FP extensions
as far as I know in a photo gallery and contact form, if I simply turn offFP
extensions.  I recognize that I'll need to lose the gallery and the formso
I'll have to searching for alternatives.  But will everything else "work?"  
Will I still be able to open the entire Web in FP and/or Expression Web?  
Will anything "break?"

Can't you publish to a test site and find out?

 

[David Kirk]

Not that I can think of. Since I only have one ISP and the site is set-up
with FPE installed now ...

But you remind me to cal the ISP and ask them his same question.

 

[Richard]

I do not believe the photo gallery uses the FP extensions.

 

[Ronx]

You will not be able to open the site in FrontPage if you remove the
extensions. However, you may be able to open the site in Expression Web
using FTP. But Expression Web does not support the FrontPage photo
gallery - it will not damage or break the existing galleries, but you
will not be able to create new galleries unless you use a third party
product. The contact form will have to be changed to use server side
scripting (asp, php, asp.net etc. - whatever your host supports).

If you are on a Windows server there is a security patch available for
the extensions that fixes the DWT functionality on a server based web -
see
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-017.mspx

The DWT functions as expected (updates all pages whether the pages are
open or not) on disc-based webs.

 

[David Kirk]

on! I thinkk you may be my new hero. I can deal with revising or losing the
contact form and gallery but as a FP addict (sooooo reluctant to move to EW
or DW) if I can fix the DWT problem and hold on to FP until someone wrenches
it from my dying hands I'll be in bliss. Now I have to convince my ISP to
install the patch, correct?

 

[David Kirk]

Ronx: Just noticed the phrase "on disk-based Webs." Since my Web is
residing on an ISP's server, does that make it a "disk-based Web" or are you
saying that the patch will only repair dwt functionality on the local copy of
the Web on my hard drive?

 

[Ronx]

No.
I am saying a disk based web on your own PC does not need the patch.
The web on the server does need the patch, but it must be a Windows
server.

--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

 

[David Kirk]

Thanks! Now let's see if the ISP will install it ...