{"id":3147,"date":"2014-03-12T21:35:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T02:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2014\/03\/12\/the-death-of-frontpage-extensions\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T23:04:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T03:04:03","slug":"the-death-of-frontpage-extensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/the-death-of-frontpage-extensions\/","title":{"rendered":"The death of FrontPage Extensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"in_this_tutorial\">\n<h2>In this tutorial:<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"#frontpage-history\" type=\"button\">FrontPage History<\/a> <a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"#death-of-fpse\" type=\"button\">Death of FrontPage Server Extensions<\/a> <a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"#frontpage-alternatives\" type=\"button\">FrontPage alternatives<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Microsoft FrontPage web publishing software has existed for over 18 years, with official mainstream support dropped for the product by Microsoft on <strong>4\/14\/2009<\/strong>, and with extended support ending on <strong>4\/8\/2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>With the official extended support ending just a month away, it&#8217;s important to start transitioning to newer web publishing software to maintain your website going forward.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"frontpage-history\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Microsoft FrontPage version history<\/h2>\n<p>Below is a table showing the various versions of FrontPage over the years, along with the dates in which support from Microsoft ended for each product.<\/p>\n<table class=\"article_table\" style=\"width: 100%; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Product name<\/th>\n<td>Start Date<\/td>\n<td>Mainstream Support End<\/td>\n<td>Extended Support End<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/lifecycle\/?p1=1903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FrontPage &#8217;97<\/a><\/th>\n<td>12\/26\/1996<\/td>\n<td>12\/21\/2001<\/td>\n<td>2\/28\/2002<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/lifecycle\/?p1=1904\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FrontPage &#8217;98<\/a><\/th>\n<td>12\/25\/1997<\/td>\n<td>9\/30\/2001<\/td>\n<td>2\/28\/2002<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/lifecycle\/?p1=1901\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FrontPage 2000<\/a><\/th>\n<td>6\/27\/1999<\/td>\n<td>6\/30\/2004<\/td>\n<td>7\/14\/2009<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/lifecycle\/?p1=1902\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FrontPage 2002<\/a><\/th>\n<td>5\/31\/2001<\/td>\n<td>7\/11\/2006<\/td>\n<td>7\/12\/2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/lifecycle\/?p1=2514\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FrontPage 2003<\/a><\/th>\n<td>11\/19\/2003<\/td>\n<td>4\/14\/2009<\/td>\n<td>4\/8\/2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a name=\"death-of-fpse\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Death of FrontPage server extensions<\/h2>\n<p>A lot of hosting providers have already disabled the <strong>FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE)<\/strong> for quite some time, since they are notoriously known to cause issues after not being updated in years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alert alert-danger\">On <strong>March 19th, 2014<\/strong> InMotion Hosting will be disabling the server-side FrontPage extensions on our servers. Any FrontPage user that wants to update their site, will no longer be able to publish with or utilize the features that FrontPage extensions allows for.<\/p>\n<h3>Can I keep using FrontPage to publish my site?<\/h3>\n<p>Even though Microsoft is ending official support for FrontPage, you can continue to use it to publish your website. However, going forward you will be unable to publish your site using FrontPage extensions, and instead you will want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/ftp\/getting-started-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">publish your FrontPage site over FTP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you plan on sticking with FrontPage, please note that as web standards evolve over time FrontPage will cease to also do so. A good quote from the Microsoft site on their <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2511858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prerequisites for using Microsoft Expression Web<\/a> page covers this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"alert alert-success\">\n<p><em>The FrontPage Server Extensions are considered deprecated technology and are being phased out of Microsoft products in favor of modern standards. Designers who use FrontPage Server Extensions components are likely to encounter problems with modern Web browsers. Many hosting companies are also dropping support for FrontPage Server Extensions due to the fact that Microsoft hasn\u2019t released a new version in many years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Expression Web users who are using FrontPage Server Extensions for authoring Web sites by connecting to servers using HTTP should adopt modern technologies such as FTP (including SFTP and FTPS), WebDAV, or by using disk-based sites.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"frontpage-alternatives\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>What are newer FrontPage alternatives?<\/h2>\n<p>The Internet and the web have changed drastically since the days when FrontPage was a very common website editor. Almost every modern website editor these days will require you to have some basic understanding of the concepts of <strong>HTML<\/strong>, and <strong>CSS<\/strong> coding, instead of the drag and drop design that FrontPage used.<\/p>\n<h3>Microsoft Expression Web<\/h3>\n<p>Microsoft released the free Microsoft Express Web 4 editor to replace their FrontPage product line. It&#8217;s not a direct FrontPage upgrade, and is a completely separate product that focuses more on modern web design.<\/p>\n<h3>Adobe Brackets<\/h3>\n<p>There is the free open source <a href=\"\/support\/website\/how-to-view-the-source-code-of-your-website\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adobe Brackets<\/a> code editor, which offers some very handy features like live HTML editing so you can see your changes right away.<\/p>\n<h3>Adobe Dreamweaver<\/h3>\n<p>A long running staple in the design world, <a href=\"\/support\/website\/getting-started-guide-dreamweaver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adobe Dreamweaver<\/a> is a paid for product with a robust feature set.<\/p>\n<h3>Sublime Text<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sublimetext.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sublime Text<\/a> allows you to very efficiently code your website or server-side files with ease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this tutorial: FrontPage History Death of FrontPage Server Extensions FrontPage alternatives The Microsoft FrontPage web publishing software has existed for over 18 years, with official mainstream support dropped for the product by Microsoft on 4\/14\/2009, and with extended support ending on 4\/8\/2014. 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