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Q. What features of FrontPages 2003 do you support?A. FWHN supports numerous features for FrontPage and SharePoint Team Services web sites. See more details.
Q. What new functionality does FrontPage 2003 offer?
A. FrontPage 2003 is the Web site creation and management program with the tools, power, and features to deliver better results. FrontPage 2003 empowers users with advances in three key areas. Designing: Create better-looking Web sites with the FrontPage 2003 layout and graphic design tools. Coding: Generate better code more quickly with powerful scripting and editing features that push your programming to new heights. 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.
Q. What type of servers does FrontPage 2003 support?
A. Web sites created with FrontPage can be published to any server—including Microsoft Windows®2000, Windows NT®, and UNIX—even if it doesn't support FrontPage Server Extensions. FrontPage 2003 also provides support for publishing to both File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) servers. The optimal combination is to use FrontPage 2003 in combination with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services on Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003. This allows you to access the entire set of new functionality in FrontPage 2003, along with improvements to the way you did things in FrontPage version 2002 and FrontPage 98.
Q. I've heard that there are no FrontPage 2003 Server Extensions. Is that true?
A. Microsoft 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—and eliminate the need for server extensions beginning with FrontPage 2003. Today, the optimal combination for FrontPage is to use FrontPage 2003 in combination with Windows SharePoint Services. This allows you to access the entire set of new functionality in FrontPage 2003, along with improvement to the way you did things in FrontPage 2002 and other previous versions of FrontPage. For more information about these changes, see FrontPage server configuration options and features.
Q. Are you ending all support for server extensions on previous versions of FrontPage?
A. 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 FrontPage 2002 server extensions to support Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 6.0, but will not add any additional Web site authoring functionality.
Q. What is Windows SharePoint Services?
A. Windows SharePoint Services is the engine for creating Web sites that enable information sharing and document collaboration, increasing individual and team productivity. It is a key piece of the information worker Infrastructure delivered in Windows Server 2003. It also provides additional team services and sites to Office and other desktop applications, as well as serving as a platform for application development. SharePoint sites take file storage to a new level, from saving files to sharing information, and helping team members to work together on documents, tasks, contacts, events, and other information. SharePoint sites also enable team and site managers to easily manage site content and activity. In addition, the environment is designed for easy and flexible deployment, administration, and application development.
Q. What features require Windows SharePoint Services?
A. All of the live data-driven Web site features in FrontPage 2003 require Windows SharePoint Services. Some of these features include data-driven Web sites, XML support, the Data Source Catalog, Web package templates, and Web Parts.
Q. What does supporting Extensible Markup Language (XML) mean for FrontPage users?
A. 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. XML makes it easier to transition content from internal systems onto the Web using FrontPage. FrontPage lets you define how XML documents that follow any customer-defined schema will be formatted on a Web page by authoring Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLTs) directly within the FrontPage editor.
Q. What are data-driven Web sites?
A. Enabled by Windows SharePoint Services, FrontPage 2003 easily allows you to modify and present live data from sources such as Windows SharePoint Services data, XML, Web services or OLE Database (OLEDB) data sources to create sophisticated data-driven Web sites that both lower your maintenance costs and allow users to post to the Web using just a browser. FrontPage also supports a complete set of WYSIWYG ("what you see it what you get") tools for creating and modifying 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.
Q. Does FrontPage 2003 include SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft?
A. 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 Windows Server 2003, as Windows SharePoint Services.
Q. What browsers does FrontPage 2003 support?
A. Sites created with FrontPage 2003 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.
Q. What are the system requirements for FrontPage 2003?
A. For system requirements that include FrontPage 2003, see Microsoft Office System Beta 2 Kit 2003 system requirements. Be sure to note additional requirements for FrontPage 2003.
Q. How much will FrontPage 2003 cost?
A. Microsoft will announce pricing for the Microsoft Office System closer to the time of release. We will make pricing information for FrontPage 2003 available at that time.
Q. Will FrontPage 2003 be included in an Office 2003 Edition?
A. No. FrontPage 2003 will be available as a stand-alone program. Learn about Microsoft Office 2003 Editions.
Q. Do I have to uninstall previous versions of FrontPage to run the FrontPage 2003 Beta?
A. No. You can run them simultaneously. During the installation of FrontPage 2003 Beta, you will be asked if you wish to keep the previous version. Choose to keep the previous version. The exception is if you had previously installed a different beta version. In that case, you will need to uninstall the previous beta version.
Q. Can I modify a file made with FrontPage 2003 in previous versions of FrontPage?
A. Yes. You can use previous versions of FrontPage to modify Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) pages created in FrontPage 2003. However, you can’t modify content created with new features, such as .aspx pages (created in Microsoft ASP.NET) that include the Data View Web Part or Dynamic Web Templates.
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