What happened to FP Templates?

[aceswerling]

I haven't used FrontPage in a couple years so I may have missed something. I
recall the program used to have a bunch of very attractive web site templates
through the MS Office site. They were simple but were great for a lot of
purposes. Now when I try to find the templates through FrontPage the Office
site doesn't display anything. I've searched all over and it appears the only
available templates are from commercial design houses that charge $75-$100.
Did the old FrontPage sites go away? Is anything similar available for no
cost, either for FrontPage or something else? What do people like me (with no
artistic talent) do to create decent looking sites? Thanks in advance.

 

[Ronx]

FrontPage has not been supported by Microsoft since early 2009 (except for
important and critical updates affecting the Office components used by
FrontPage), so it is not surprising that FrontPage templates have been
removed. There are still many sites offering free templates for
rontPage - Google for "Free FrontPage templates" (without the quotes) gives
nearly 3 million hits, but don't limit yourself to frontPage - Expression
Web templates will work just as well for building a standards compliant web
site in FrontPage, though Design view may not be perfect since CSS support
in FrontPage is not very good.

FrontPage was replaced by Expression Web (now at version 3) - a free trial
is available at
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Web_Overview.aspx
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

 

[Tina Clarke]

I haven't used FrontPage in a couple years so I may have missed something.
I
recall the program used to have a bunch of very attractive web site
templates
through the MS Office site. They were simple but were great for a lot of
purposes. Now when I try to find the templates through FrontPage the
Office
site doesn't display anything. I've searched all over and it appears the
only
available templates are from commercial design houses that charge
$75-$100.
Did the old FrontPage sites go away? Is anything similar available for no
cost, either for FrontPage or something else? What do people like me (with
no
artistic talent) do to create decent looking sites? Thanks in advance.

Don't know if you mean templates or themes .... what version of fp are you
talking about?

If you are using fp03 .. you can find well coded free dwt templates at
http://www.expression-web-tutorials.com/ew-templates.html

any html template will do for fp btw... i would make sure of the code though

hth Tina
Dynamic Web Template free Ebook
http://frontpage-ebooks.com/dwt-ebook.htm