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FrontPage 2003 FAQs

Q1: What new tools and functionality does Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 offer?

FrontPage 2003 is the Web site creation and management application with the tools, power, and features to deliver better results. FrontPage 2003 empowers users with advances in three key areas:

1) DESIGNING: Create better-looking Web sites with the FrontPage 2003 layout and graphic design tools.

2) CODING: Generate better code more quickly with powerful scripting and editing features that push your programming to new heights.

3) EXTENDING: Extend the power and reach of your Web site with rich interactive Webs connected to live data from a variety of sources, and a range of publishing options.

Q2: What type of servers does FrontPage 2003 support?

Web sites created with FrontPage can be published to any server—including MS Windows® 2000, MS Windows NT®, and UNIX—even if it doesn't support FrontPage Server Extensions. FrontPage 2003 also provides support for publishing to both FTP or WebDAV servers.

The optimal combination for FrontPage customers is to use FrontPage 2003 in combination with MS Windows SharePoint Services on MS Windows Server 2003. This allows customers to access the entire set of new functionality in FrontPage 2003, along with better ways to do things they were used to doing in FrontPage 2002.

Q3: I've heard that there are no FrontPage 2003 Server Extensions. Is that true?

MS has continued to make investments in FrontPage 2003 to enhance the overall customer experience, based on customer feedback and the changing role of server extensions in our overall product offerings. As we examined our options, it became clear that the best solution was to create a new and radically more powerful server story -- Windows SharePoint Services from MS, and eliminate the need for server extensions, beginning with FrontPage 2003.Web sites created with FrontPage can be published to any server—including MS Windows® 2000, MS Windows NT®, and UNIX—even if it doesn't support FrontPage Server Extensions. FrontPage 2003 also provides support for publishing to both FTP or WebDAV servers.

Today, the optimal combination for FrontPage customers is to use FrontPage 2003 in combination with Windows SharePoint Services. This allows customers to access the entire set of new functionality in FrontPage 2003, along with better ways to do things they were used to doing in FrontPage 2002 and previous versions.

Q4: Does this mean that you are ending support for server extensions on previous versions of FrontPage?

While we are eliminating investment in the development of future server extension versions, we will continue to support existing server extensions on the Windows and Unix/Apache server platforms. We will also update the server extensions in Windows Server 2003 to support IIS 6.0, but will not add any additional Web site authoring functionality.

Q5: What does the ability to support XML mean for FrontPage 2003 users?

FrontPage lets you define how XML documents that follow any customer-defined schema will be formatted on a Web page by authoring XSLTs (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) directly within the FrontPage editor.

XML is a condensed form of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) that enables developers to create customized tags that offer flexibility in organizing and presenting information and makes it easier to transition content from internal systems onto the Web using FrontPage.

Q6: What are Data-driven Web sites?

Enabled by Windows SharePoint Services, FrontPage 2003 easily allows you to edit and present live-data from sources such as MS Windows® SharePoint Services data, XML, Web Services or OLEDB data sources to create sophisticated data-driven Web sites that both lower your maintenance costs and allow your users to post to the Web using just the browser.

FrontPage also supports a complete set of WYSIWYG tools for creating and editing XSLT Data Views on a variety of data sources including XML files, databases, and XML SOAP services. These Data Views include industry-standard reporting tools for sorting, grouping, filtering, and conditionally formatting data. Users can create high quality, dynamic Web pages for presenting live data using these tools.

Q7: Does FrontPage 2003 include SharePoint Team Services™ from Microsoft?

No, SharePoint Team Services will not be available in the box with FrontPage 2003. The next version of the SharePoint Team Services technology will be made available with MS Windows Server 2003, as Windows SharePoint Services.

Q7: Does FrontPage 2003 include SharePoint Team Services™ from Microsoft?

Q8: What browsers does FrontPage 2003 support?

Sites created by using FrontPage can be viewed in any browser. In fact, FrontPage 2003 allows you to target specific browser or screen resolutions, or see how your site will look in various combinations of browsers and resolutions -- including simultaneous previewing of multiple browsers.

Q9: Do I have to uninstall previous versions of FrontPage to run the FrontPage 2003?

No. You can run them simultaneously. During the installation process for FrontPage 2003, you will be asked if you wish to keep the previous version. Simply choose that option. The exception being if you had previously installed a different beta version, you will need to uninstall the previous beta version.

Q10: Can files made with FrontPage 2003 be edited in previous versions of FrontPage?

Yes. FrontPage 2002 creates standard HTML pages that can be edited in previous versions of FrontPage. The only exceptions are the sections of Web pages that use new features in FrontPage 2003, such as the data driven webs features, web parts, dynamic web templates, etc.

Q11: Can I use the FrontPage 2003 to work on files created in previous versions of FrontPage?

Yes. You can use FrontPage 2003 to open, edit, and enhance Web pages created in prior versions of FrontPage.

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