Microsoft FrontPage is a software program used to design and publish Web sites. It allows you to create a Web site in the same way that Microsoft Word allows you to create business letters.
FrontPage also includes a number of special features, such as the ability to upload (publish) your Web site without requiring an FTP program. It has interactive features like hit counters, feedback forms, and discussion groups.
In 2006, FrontPage was discontinued by Microsoft. They no longer sell or support it, and there will be no further bug fixes or enhancements forthcoming. We don't recommend using FrontPage any more, simply because it's not possible to get help with it if you have any trouble.
Although though FrontPage is no longer made by Microsoft, we will continue to support old users of FrontPage as long as possible by offering "FrontPage server extensions" on our servers, which are what actually make the special FrontPage features work. If you're using FrontPage to design your Web site, you should use your account management control panel to activate the FrontPage server extensions for your account.
You can use FrontPage 98, FrontPage 2000, FrontPage 2002, or FrontPage 2003 on your computer. That's because we use FrontPage Server Extensions 2002, which (somewhat confusingly) work with all FrontPage versions from FrontPage 98 to FrontPage 2003. (We don't support FrontPage 97 or earlier; you would need to upgrade if you are still using FrontPage 97.)
Keep in mind that FrontPage features work differently depending on what type of server you're connecting to. Our FrontPage 2002 server extensions support the following features:
The following FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions features are not supported:
We don't offer "advanced FrontPage hosting", which would allow you to connect your Web site to a database from within FrontPage. Not many people need "advanced FrontPage hosting" with the extra database features; if you're not sure whether you need it or not, you almost certainly don't — our basic FrontPage hosting will be fine.
If you have other questions about using FrontPage, the following Microsoft Web pages may be useful: