What do FrontPage Extensions do?
FrontPage server Extensions enable the ever important
publishing capability in FrontPage so you don't have to be concerned with
what pages have been changed and what files need to written to the server.
There are also a set of FrontPage web components that require the
FrontPage Extensions to be installed upon the server (more on this below).
Must I have FrontPage Extensions to publish a web
with FrontPage?
No, but then you have to publish the web using FTP and keep
track of what files need to published to the server. FrontPage 2003 also
provides support for publishing to both File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or
Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) servers.
Can FrontPage Extensions run on any server?
FrontPage Extensions can be loaded on Microsoft NT, 2000,
2003 or XP servers running IIS and also various UNIX / Linux servers.
How can I tell what kind of server my web is running
on?
See the following tip for more info.
I've heard that there are no FrontPage 2003 Server
Extensions. Is that true?
Microsoft will continue to support FP2002 extensions on the
Windows and UNIX/Apache server platforms but will be pouring its
development effort in to Windows SharePoint™ Services They will also
update the FrontPage 2002 server extensions to support Microsoft Internet
Information Services (IIS 6.0), but will not add any additional Web site
authoring functionality.
What are Windows SharePoint Services?
Windows SharePoint Services allows you to access a new set
of new functionality in FrontPage 2003 and more. For more information
about these changes, see
FrontPage server configuration options and features.
What components in FrontPage require FrontPage Extensions to be on the
server?
Here is a short list of features that require FrontPage
Extensions:
Top 10 Lists
Save Form Results (E-mail, File)
Reports
Search Form and Table of Contents options for various template wizards
User Registration template
Database Results
Save Results to Database
Search Current Web
Hit Counter
Include Page Based on Schedule
Include Picture Based on Schedule
Table of Contents
Visual InterDev Navigation Bar
Table of Contents template
Here is a short list of features that DO NOT require
FrontPage Extensions:
Date / Time
Comment
Photo Gallery
Substitution
Include
Themes
External Web
Navigation
Page Banner
Link Bar, Custom
Link Bar, Back / Next
For more information about this subject, see
FrontPage server configuration options and features.
And That's it
