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About Front Page

Microsoft Front Page is available for Windows only. In 2007, Microsoft announced that Front Page is no longer being developed, and will be replaced with other products.

Recent versions of Front Page inter-operate with our web server. Front Page is designed to work with a set of proprietary "Front Page Extensions" that no other web site tool uses. We do not support Front Page Extensions and Front Page WebBots do not work on our systems. WebBots are easily replaced by CGI scripts. Contact support for help. WebValence supports developing WebBot replacements.

Front Page FTP Publish

After developing your new web site with Front Page, publish it to the host. The key to using Front Page with WebValence hosts is guiding Front Page to publish your web site via File Transfer Protocol (FTP).

Enter an address like the following into the "Publish Destination" dialog box.

ftp://domain.suffix/domain/

Be prepared to enter your user name and password (furnished to you by WebValence via Email when your web site setup was completed).

Example of publishing to a web site using FTP:

Using Front Page with a Previously Existing Sites

We advise that you use Front Page only on sites that were originally constructed with Front Page. If a site was designed with another authoring tool, use the same tool (or Adobe Contribute) to maintain your site.

Reasons that quickly came to mind for this recommendation:

1. Front Page is not designed to interoperate easily non-MS products such as graphical programs from Adobe or Macromedia.
2. Front Page does not provide good visibility of your remote files. They appear to exist in a black box.
3. Downloading a web site for import with Front Page can be a problem. You have to ensure that all the relevant files and folders are actually downloaded.
4. Front Page litters your web site with extra files and that you won't need.

If you really want to use Front Page on an existing site. Proceed as follows:

1. Use the File > Import
2. Choose the "Import Web Wizard"
3. Provide your usual web site address, such as http://www.connectioncoach.com/
4. When the site is imported, do a thorough check to make sure that Front Page actually retrieved all your files.
5. Use the FTP upload instructions above for publishing your changes.

We recommend that you call Microsoft support if you are having technical problems with Front Page itself.

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