Front Page for Mac

[John Wolf]

Anyone know of such a program? Front Page is easy to use, powerful, and
works like Office. I heard they discontinued the Windows version, so perhaps
no mac version will be released.

 

[Ronx]

The Mac version was discontinued around 1997 - it will be hard to find now.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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[John Wolf]

Ebay..

Bye the way why did MS discontinue the windows version?

 

[Ronx]

FrontPage was replaced by Expression Web and Sharepoint Designer.

FrontPage has been replaced by Expression Web and MS Office SharePoint
Designer. These are NOT upgrades (though Expression Web does have upgrade
pricing). Some knowledge of HTML and CSS are required to get the best out
of these programs.
Expression Web is aimed at standards compliant web sites, and has limited
support for FrontPage components. Expression Web supports PHP and asp.NET
2.

SharePoint Designer is aimed at SharePoint websites, but has more support
for FrontPage Components. Note that Expression Web does not have a
Navigation View if you use FrontPage navigation components - SharePoint
Designer does have Navigation View.
SharePoint Designer does not support PHP, whereas Expression Web (version 2)
does.

Neither program has any support for VML graphics as produced by FrontPage
and other Office applications (WordArt, ShapeArt, TextBoxes and objects
created using the Drawing toolbar)

A 30 day trial for Expression Web is available from
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Overview.aspx?key=web
IMPORTANT: Do not forget the product key obtainable from a link on the
download page.

Sharepoint Designer is a free download from
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/FX100487631033.aspx


The newsgroup for Expression Web is microsoft.public.expression.webdesigner
The link
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.expression.webdesigner
should open the group in your news reader.

FYI, FrontPage extensions are only supported on Windows 2003/2008 servers -
other server types (Unix, Windows 2000) have no support for extensions other
than that given by hosts. There is a version of FP extensions available for
IIS7, used by Windows Server 2008 and Vista.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

 

[John Wolf]

What a tragedy MS would do this. Oh well if I go Windows I will just buy the
older 2003 version.

 

[Expert]

What a tragedy MS would do this. Oh well if I go Windows I will just buy the
older 2003 version.

You better hurry up then because even older 2003 versions may not be there for
long. Most software packages have shorter shelf life these days. How about using
a free version from Microsoft? You can get it [ free ] from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/express/vwd/

Hope this helps.