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Microsoft Expression Web
Saturday, January 06, 2007
This is one of Microsoft's newest web-related product. I don't want to confuse it with Frontpage (a tool that helped businesses easily create a website). Microsoft Expression Web helps users create compliant XHTML code. Unfortunately, it has gotten rid of most of the bots and does not rely on Frontpage Server Extensions (FPSEs). You can still publish with Expression Web with http to help maintain the FPSE on the server.Hosting and Expression Web
Since you no longer have the need to use FPSE, you can use File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to upload your website. FTP is how "the others" uploaded their website, either with an FTP program like FileZilla or even with a browser. Expression Web will create some .NET code (like Frontpage helped you create some ASP code). If you are going to be using .NET, I would suggest you consider a Windows server though. Some versions of UNIX / Linux servers might be able to handle some ASP / .NET code, but it is usually better to run those on it's native platform. A site that is built though in Expression Web with just htm / html file extensions, could be hosted on almost any server at any hosting company.Chances are, you will need to get code for a contact form if you were relying on FPSE to process the form for you. Your hosting company might even have some code as well.
Relying on Frontpage
The first thing to do is to think what you have been relying on with Frontpage, i.e. forms, the navigation bot, a search bot, etc. And then if you would like to keep some of those, you can find code to help you. And we will go through all of that later.
