Frontpage 2003

  • LoriAnn

    (@loriann)


    18 years, 3 months ago

    Hi all,
    I am a web site building baby – in other words I have never attempted anything like this before.

    I have a host, and a domain name, and the installation of WPress looks very straight forward.

    My question has to do with using frontpage 2003 and word press templates. I am very familiar with Microsoft software so I thought it might be easier and less scary for me if I could use a wordpress template in Frontpage and then add all of my personal info and pictures. Is this even possible?

    And are there WPress templates where I can have items I sell and put the blog on another page rather than the home page?

    I have read just about everything I could find online about WordPress, and I think I have become a little overwhelmed by all the information.

    Please tell me how WPress differs from MS Frontpage?

    Thank you for you assistance.

    LoriAnn

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    18 years, 3 months ago

    I am very familiar with Microsoft software

    Too bad… you can just forget all that stuff. Don’t even open FrontPage ever when working with WP. No need for it.

    Login to your WP blog and start experimenting: write posts, assign categories to them, write Pages etc.
    When you think of desired features and added functionality – think of plugins and serach for them. MOst of the time there is at least one.

    And ask specific questions in the forum, don’t write long post. The helpers attention span is short 🙂

    WarPig

    (@warpig)

    18 years, 3 months ago

    Hi LoriAnn,

    FrontPage 2003 doesnt have “out of the box” support for PHP. Because its an MS product, it uses ASP.NET by default which WordPress is not. That wouldnt prevent you from developing themes in FrontPage, but it might not be as easy as using a product with full PHP support such as Dreamweaver etc and would require some configuration to FP. You would need to get assistance from MS to configure your FrontPage to work with PHP.

    To begin with, you might want to get a theme that has been created from http://themes.wordpress.net/. There’s no shortage of available themes on there, and there is bound to be more than a few which would let you sell your products and have a blog as well.

    As for your question about how WordPress differs from FrontPage, WordPress is the backend system that you use to create, save, edit and display information on your website, where FrontPage is the application you use to edit the core WordPress files and the WordPress themes (Much like editing standard HTML files).

    Hope that helps.

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    18 years, 3 months ago

    where FrontPage is the application you use to edit the core WordPress files and the WordPress themes

    Never try that with FP, unless you want to screw up your blog…

    fotokunstner

    (@fotokunstner)

    18 years, 2 months ago

    I have been stupid enough to use Frontpage to edit some of my files and now my blog is down.

    Can anyone help me at all getting back on track? The URL for my blog is

    Another question. What editors do you guys use for building and editing the files? I’ve always used Frontpage since I started building websites and know nothing else…

    Hope someone can help me out.

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