how to open a asp site using frontpage

[Gpr0496]

I am pretty proficient with frontpage using html...but my friend has an OLD
site that was written with asp extensions. Can this somehow be converted to
html (LOL) or is it possible to open it with frontpage to update it? I was
able to open only a few pages using frontpage. From what I have read, it's
an IIS issue? If so, where do I begin? I have windows xp media center
edition version 2002 service pack 2.
Thanks for your help...

 

[Ronx]

FrontPage can be used to edit .asp pages without any problems provided:
1) You open a web containing the files before you open any pages - use
File->Open Web

2) The code (HTML and script) has been well written - this means that
(for example) tables opened in HTML are closed in HTML, and tables
opened in script are closed in script. If this is not done FrontPage
will attempt to correct the HTML.

If the site has FrontPage extensions, open the site and Publish to a
folder on your PC, if there are no extensions use an FTP client to
download all the files to your PC, then open the folder in FrontPage and
convert to a web.
Do NOT use File->Import. Importing the web will only get what the
browser sees - the HTML rendering of the pages, not the asp script
behind the HTML.

You can edit the pages in a disc based web, but you need a server to
test the results.

Whether the pages can be converted to HTML depends on what script is in
the pages, and whether the site will function without the script. If a
database is involved the answer is definitely not.