FP 2003-FP 2000 Interchangability

[Allen]

I use FP 2000 at my school where I manage its website. At home, I use FP
2003. I would like to use FP 2003 over the summer to create the website for
uploading next school year. I like using Dynamic Web Templates in my 2003
web sites...but 2000 doesn't have them. If i create a website using 2003
DWTs and transfer it to a jump drive to bring in and upload using 2000...what
will happen? Will anything render correctly? Alternatively, if I upload it
at home (again using DWTs) from 2003 and then simply access it from the web
in 2000 what will happen? I'm assuming that at best the DWT will not be able
to be accessed from my school computers running 2000 but will they even be
functional online? I know that FP (smartly) uploads the files as straight
html rather than actually linking to the dwt but i'm not sure how an older
version of fp will react if it sees the dwt markup. Thanks.

 

[Ronx]

FP2000 will not be able to edit the DWT and apply the changes to any
attached pages. You might be able to open the DWT in FP2000, but it will
resemble and behave like an ordinary .htm page.

Pages attached to the DWT can be opened and edited in FP2000. However the
non-editable regions will be just as editable as the editable regions.

There will not be any rendering (exception: custom link bars) issues in a
browser if you only Publish with FP2000 - there may be problems rendering
pages in FP2000 Design View depending on the page construction.

There are features in FP2003 (apart from DWTs) that are not supported by
FrontPage 2000 and may cause problems. These include (and I may have missed
some):

Custom link bars
Custom themes on link bars
Photogallery
DWT
Layout tables, cells and items connected with these
Database Interface Wizard
File upload component
Shared border backgrounds properties
Themes in FP2003 use CSS, themes in FP2000 may use <font> tags only (I am
not sure whether CSS themes were intoduced in FP2000 or FP2002).

The design view in FP2000 is not as good as that in FP2003 and may cause
problems - especially if CSS is used.

Themes in FP2003 use CSS, themes in FP2000 may use <font> tags only (I am
not sure whether CSS themes were introduced in FP2000 or FP2002).

Apart from the above - there should not be any problems editing a site
produced in FP2003 with FP2000, whether the site is on disc or on an
internet web server.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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[Tina Clarke]

I use FP 2000 at my school where I manage its website. At home, I use FP
2003. I would like to use FP 2003 over the summer to create the website
for
uploading next school year. I like using Dynamic Web Templates in my 2003
web sites...but 2000 doesn't have them. If i create a website using 2003
DWTs and transfer it to a jump drive to bring in and upload using
2000...what
will happen? Will anything render correctly? Alternatively, if I upload
it
at home (again using DWTs) from 2003 and then simply access it from the
web
in 2000 what will happen? I'm assuming that at best the DWT will not be
able
to be accessed from my school computers running 2000 but will they even be
functional online? I know that FP (smartly) uploads the files as straight
html rather than actually linking to the dwt but i'm not sure how an older
version of fp will react if it sees the dwt markup. Thanks.

You can open your pages, edit and save...in fp2000 what you can't do is open
the actual .dwt file in fp2000

You might want to suggest to school that they might think of using
SharePoint Designer 2007 which is now f ree .. its like expression web 1.0.

they can upgrade and get cheaper rates for educational use (your school) ...

Tina
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