Goodbye Frontpage: It Was Nice Knowing You

by Barbra Sundquist

Last week my hosting company made an upgrade to their servers. Ever since, I have not been able to make changes to my how to write a bio website in Microsoft Frontpage .

After numerous support tickets with my hosting company, this is what I found out:

Microsoft has not made any new versions of the “FrontPage server extensions” since 2002, and in 2006 they announced that they will not make any new versions in the future.

Microsoft has replaced FrontPage with other programs, including “Microsoft Expression Web”. That program does not use the FrontPage server extensions and it should work fine on most  servers since it can upload your files using FTP.

Because the old server extensions are not fully compatible with modern Web servers, it is becoming more and more difficult for hosting companies to support these special features as time passes. Because of that, my company now strongly recommends that customers avoid using FrontPage for new Web sites.

This is because Frontpage will stop working at some point in the future. And it looks like it does not work correctly on my server right now.

Note: If you still want to use FrontPage you can try to configure it to upload files using FTP.

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