front page 2000 vs 2003

[mary in the woods]

I have a already developoed website that was created with front page 2000. I
am currenly learning front page 2003 and want to modify the website that was
created by someone else. Tis is for my work. Is it best to downlaod the
website into 2003 and redo it than to modify it? Can I do the same tasks in
2003 that 2002 offers?
I guess I want to nkow if it owuld be better to start over sicne it has been
years since the website was developed. I notice that 2003 does not offer the
background and formats that the wbsite has and we prefer them. I am looking
for ideas and suggestions. 2000 vs 2003 updating vs starting over

 

[Andrew Murray]

You can pretty much open the site in FP2003 and keep working as if you never
changed. It is much the same as FP2000 with a few extra features, but
nothing extra ordinary that would require redoing the site.

Do a full publish to your hard drive from within FP2003 via HTTP mode.

It also depends on what features in FP2003 you want to take advantage of eg
interactive buttons, dynamic web templates, behaviours etc - none of these
use the FP extensions (FP2003 utilises the ext from FP2002).

In my opinion, the added features of FP2003 makes life even easier than
FP2000, and much easier than 2002.

If you mean FP2003 doesn't have the theme you've been using then do a full
publish from the server to local drive, it will import the theme you're
using as well, so you can continue using it.