Losing FP extensions is caused by poor maintenance or by using FTP.
Microsoft's support for FrontPage extensions on Unix, Windows XP and Windows
2000 ceased in June 2006. Support for extensions on Windows 2003 will
continue for the supported life of Windows 2003.
FrontPage was discontinued with FP2003 being the last version. All Microsoft
support for this will end on July 11, 2009 (about 2 days from now).
FrontPage was replaced by Expression Web - version 3 will be officially
announced on July 10, 2009 - and 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.
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Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp
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