Introduction

Frontpage Isn't Just For Novices Anymore

Wayne's Microsoft Blog — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:27:00 GMT

re: Introduction

Saurabh Nandu — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:15:00 GMT

Why isn't FrontPage integrated with VS.NET??
Any plans ahead... as you know the story VS.NET editor is not the best ASP.NET editor. Why isn't FrontPage team taking the initiative to back VS.NET and provide at least a good ASP.NET editor??
Why 2 teams should work on building the same thing, when the goals of the products are also more or less the same (with VS.NET of course having a wider scope, but the ASP.NET editors job in it is the same..).

re: Introduction

Chris Monachan — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:59:00 GMT

Perhaps I've not looked hard enough for the option. But I find myself editing php files in frontpage or VS.NET then because these are server-side things I need to open a browser and surf to localhost to see the result of my changes.

I think it's fairly common for webdevelopers to be running a local server that might not be IIS. I'm guess if my stuff was ASP I'd see the changes update in the VS.NET or frontpage preview windows or HTML tab?

Is it possible to redirect this preview window or HTML tab to open the HTML from a URL instead of whatever is in memory?

So that in the HTML tab or preview window it's my webserver that's serving up the HTML, with a URL I've given it to perhaps associate with the HTML file in my editor.

It could be most people edit on the remote server. But I tend to have a local server spend time working on it, then upload to my remote site after a few weeks via ftp. It could be I'm just not getting the most out of frontpage, but I find it's a great product, but not really designed for my workflow.

So, people are blogging about FrontPage

spiderwebwoman — Sun, 18 Apr 2004 05:30:00 GMT

Using FrontPage to blog

Bjeppson — Tue, 31 May 2005 06:11:03 GMT

I'm making a site for a health charity and they need to post an update every day without doing any code or anything. I need something automatic, so I was thinking of some sort of blog thing. FrontPage 2003, host has FP extensions and, probably, SharePoint Services. Any ideas?