my website and html

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I have a website that is hosted by a a web design group. I am upset that it
was set up in html format and that "they" have to make all the changes to it
and it is very costly. I am very computer literate and want to take my site,
and convert it so that I can make changes whenever. Is front page the right
software and does it work with an existing site?
 
I have a website that is hosted by a a web design group. I am upset that it
was set up in html format and that "they" have to make all the changes to
it
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Well, that's how a website is written, in HTML, the language of the web.
Even Frontpage writes HTML, it just hides it from you a bit.
I am very computer literate and want to take my site,
and convert it so that I can make changes whenever. Is front page the
right
software and does it work with an existing site?
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Yes, you could use FrontPage for this. Conversion is not necessary, you just
open up each page in FrontPage, or "import" the whole site. This may be a
bigger project that you suspect, since it was developed by someone else. You
may never know why they've done certain things or written certian bits of
code. They may have hacks in there to make it cross broswer compatible or to
satisfy one browser or another.

I'm not saying you can't do it. I'm just saying that it may be more work
than you anticipate.
 
I guess when they built the site, they did not explain all of the options to
me as far as making changes to a site etc. Now that they did it so I cannot
access and make changes, they want about 1,000 to add a program that allows
me to do this. Am I better off redesiging from scratch or trying to use front
page to import, or are there compaines/individuals who would do this for me?
The original site cost was well over 1,000.
 
I guess when they built the site, they did not explain all of the options
to
me as far as making changes to a site etc. Now that they did it so I
cannot
access and make changes, they want about 1,000 to add a program that
allows
me to do this. Am I better off redesiging from scratch or trying to use
front
page to import, or are there compaines/individuals who would do this for
me?
The original site cost was well over 1,000.
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$1000.00 is cheap for a web site. If you find someone else to work on your
web site, you will pay at least that much. Now, if you want to learn HTML,
FrontPage might be a good investment for you. But if you don't want to learn
HTML, you will swiftly reach a point at which you become extremely
frustrated, because there's only so much FrontPage (or any other web
development software) can do for you.

HTML isn't hard to learn. It's just a fairly simple markup language. You
might enjoy it. And you can use FrontPage to learn it. When you use the
WYSIWYG editor to create HTML, you can view the source code of the HTML it
writes. In addition, the WWW is full of information about HTML.

As to what you *should* do, you should decide what you should do.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
A brute awe as you,
a Metallic hag entity, eat us.
 
Viken said:
Well, that's how a website is written, in HTML, the language of the web.
Even Frontpage writes HTML, it just hides it from you a bit.


Yes, you could use FrontPage for this. Conversion is not necessary, you just
open up each page in FrontPage, or "import" the whole site. This may be a
bigger project that you suspect, since it was developed by someone else. You
may never know why they've done certain things or written certian bits of
code. They may have hacks in there to make it cross broswer compatible or to
satisfy one browser or another.

I'm not saying you can't do it. I'm just saying that it may be more work
than you anticipate.
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To add to what Viken said, you may want to provide a link to your site
here, so some of the MVPs can look at the source code to determine how
complex the coding is, and how much of a challenge it would be for you
to maintain it.
 
The coding looks pretty simple.. in fact a lot of it looks boilerplate
primitive.

However, it is not something you would want to jump into without some
practice first - it is beyond the 3rd week hobby stage. And there are a few
bits of odd code in there that I am not sure what the purpose is:

"<iframe name="FRAMENAME" src="http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I'm Feeling
Lucky&q=Apps Communications - Website development, Marketing, E-Commerce,
VoIP, Broadband" width="1" height="1" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"
hspace=0 vspace=0 ALLOWTRANSPARENCY="true">
</iframe>"

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