Frontpage 2003

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I just purchased Microsoft Frontpage 2003 and I was just wondering if I
bought a domain would this program be all I need to set up a webpage? I'm
trying to set up my own webpage for my carlot and I have seen these other
websites that you can purchace different packages from. Would I still need
those packages or could I just use Frontpage to help me out with it. I would
like to have 50-60 vehicles on there and have a new window open up for each
vehicle and I would be expecting 100-200 people visting per month maybe more.
If anyone can help me out I would greatly appreciate it.
 
Well, let's say you just bought a whole set of the best carpentry tools in
the world, and you want to build a house. You're still going to have to
build the house. You may not have to put everything together from the ground
up, but bigger pieces and better tools don't build a house for you. They can
do a lot of the work for you, but they can't design and build it. Yes, you
can buy pre-fab homes, but you're pretty much stuck with the models they are
selling. So, if you can't find one that fits your requirements, you might
want to learn a bit about web development and management. Get yourself a
book on web development with FrontPage. If you don't now, you will. And now
will be the best time to do it, before you have to fix a bunch of stuff that
started out all wrong.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Ambiguity has a certain quality to it.
 
Yes, Frontpage will be all you need.

If you want a tutorial , www.frontpagewiz.com is a good start.

If you're selling cars, and you have 50-60 cars to be sold, I'd suggest
running a basic database driven site (for ease of updating and adding
records), a tutorial for which can be found on the aforementioned site,
using the Frontpage Results Wizard and INterface Wizards.

You ask if you need *any more software* to build the site.

I'd suggest MS Access would be a useful tool (part of MS Office Professional
2000/XP/2003 releases, and older for creating the database of vehicle
details which will eventually be displayed on the web site (through the
above site's tutorial you can learn how this is done).

You have have the "popup window" thing work, and www.jimcoaddins.com has a
tool called "Spawn" to do this.

It just takes time and patience to learn these things.
 
you might want to consider somthing other than frontpage to build what would
be a complex site, have you ever looked at www.xoops.org ?

it's mroe of a prebuilt platform but is open source so it's free.

you will still need frontpage to do some customisations of the html if you
choose to modify xoops into your own brand etc.

Dean
 
The OP can do everything he /she needs with FrontPage.

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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
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